Well the modified beta terrain is designed to encourage base capture. If you dont want to fly over the mountains and the v bases then you have to capture bases. You'll notice knights capture bases on that map, pretty much for that reason. Thats not an endorsement, just an observation.
But once you capture the second vbase you can have even further to fly to find a bandit. They were all hovering over their base waiting for the attack, rather than meeting us in the middle, at least the Bish side. That is when I logged, it was ~15mins to get to a fight... The Rook side seemed to be allowing us to capture everything.
