DFC, I looked at the DOC, particulary the table depicting all the different entry flavours and it gave me a headache.
I'll take 411A approach: if they are happy, I'm happy.
Nonetheless, revisiting 8168 was not a waste of time: it reminded me that an offset entry is actually a teardrop and not a parallel as I wrote above.
So I should have written: the FMC goes for a teardrop (offset) when IMHO it should do a parallel. As I just said, not that I care that much, just out of curiosity.