Correct. Basically, if you learn 5 ranks of Disarm via the CMAN system, it is equivalent to having 50 ranks via the guild. Ten ranks of guild equals one rank of CMAN. Same goes for tackle, feint, you name it, anything that we can learn. So essentially, through the guild, it is like having 6.3 ranks of the CMAN, except that you get to use those points for other stuff.

Really, though, while it would be cool to have CMANs be additive with the guild, it'd really almost be overkill, in my opinion. A warrior mastered in tricks doesn't have trouble feinting pretty well any creature, barring those that have warrior-bases and have intrinsic defense to it, and who needs to feint a warrior type creature that walks around in offensive? That's a job for stance dancing, or simple toe to toe.

On the other hand, what you propose might actually help with tackle, since even at mastery it's easy to fail. But of course, as long as tackle retains it's 7 second hard RT, I don't think even that would make it as attractive as it used to be when it was the only knockdown maneuver out there.

In my opinion, a much better change would be to include some ways of reducing the RTs for the maneuvers, rather than increasing your roll. It'd be cool if you could master tackle through the guild, and then get, say, a one second RT reduction per CMAN rank you pile on top of that (to a max, probably, I don't see us doing 2 second tackles if we go for broke). The old excessive RT of tackle problem has been hashed and rehashed. Seven seconds of hard RT for a knockdown is just not feasible when you're hunting places where one misstep invites a void or some other ungodly RT stacking spell when the failure rate is so high.

Of course, rather than making us spend CMAN points on it, I'd also accept them just lowering the tackle RT flat out :)

*Mohrgan grins cheerfully*