This means a player might want to play very defensively. You may have a 1 VP lead and defending that town till the end will win you the campaign. Or you may know that you need to win the battle because the enemy holds all the towns in the region. Deployment and the reinforcements also vary like this
And the forces may be uneven, its likely not all columns will make it, and they don't need to be the same size either, could be a 1 cavalry "decoy". But it never feels like a random scenario, because you know exactly what happened on that map to make you end up in this situation.
And Sam has a fantastic frank style of explaining the intent of his rules. This pre-game system is here to get an interesting wargame. quote "If the players cannot produce a battle within five days, then the player with the most VPs wins. Pack up and go home; you have dishonored the monarchy.
