youre right there, the journey is the reward. thus I think the VC is not important, only if you want to know where you can roughly build factional troops^^

oh but those Clever clever greeks can sometimes become rather unpredictable as in my last Sweboz campaign I bumped into them when conquering Gawjam basternoz XD and southern france^^ good thing about that is probably that it spared me of Sauromatae attacks