Regarding why you would want to lure your opponent into bidding heavily instead of simply making a large bid yourself.
Take this classic scene from movies and novels. The villain, in mock fairness, offers to fight it out with the captured hero. The hero may have slightly higher skill, but is equipped with a loin clothe and a spear while the villain is wrapped in bronze from head to toe and is using shielf and sword of the first quality.
After a few exchanges, the villains huge edges have wittled the hero down to a just a few AP. Time to use a hero point and make an appropriate heroic come back. However, doing it on the attack means that, with her villains huge defensive edge, you would have to bid an enormous number of APs to make a significant difference. However, by luring the overconfident villain into trying to finish you off too early (bids High APs), and using a hero point to make sure you win the exchange, you can rob the villain for fair measure. THEN you come up with a nifty augment of some sort, and attack for the win.....
Does it all make an extreme difference, once you crunch all of the numbers? Maybe not, but in a close battle ANY small edge can be beneficial.
Just my $.02 (which converts to $.0133 American)
--Bryan
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