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[Cammorak]

I considered going for early VPs with my natural water access, but I figured I would already be an early-game target and didn't need to draw any more attention to myself.

Honestly, I was trying out a Baalz-style strategy, which I think makes the loss of 25 points a bit of a nonissue. The downside was my forces weren't consolidated when you came knocking so they pretty much got steamrolled piecemeal.

As I was considering it though, I think the handicaps actually might need to be a bit harder. I was testing out bless builds and a loss of 25 points is rather small change. Sure, you may have slightly worse scales or lose a bit of your bless, but it doesn't strike me as really even by any means.

I think it's a great idea, but maybe if the handicaps are somehow normalized to, say, the cost of increasing dom scales a point, rather than arbitrary values. I think one of the issues was the relative lack of bidding wars. The community seems small enough to where this may never happen extensively, so it may be better to high-ball the opening bids.