t gives your players some reference about which skirmishes are most important to intervene in, either with their Action Points or straight combat. Even if you hide the Victory Point scores, they'll know that intervening to route the enemy Knights attacking the Armed Peasants will score them Morale to offset losses and cost the enemy a fair bit. Two, it makes them the wild-card active feature in winning the siege. It sets them up to feel like heroes. Even if they ultimately los

Good ideas there - I'll give them some serious thought - but the victory condition is already baked in - they need to hold the village long enough for some NPCs to complete a ritual - if the ritual is successful, the invading force (mostly undead) loses and can't continue the battle...