From the point of view of quick battles I always treat the VL's as the point of the battle exactly as you would in a scenario. Although there is no briefing for a QB I form one in my own mind as 'take and hold the following objectives' which are the VL's. The idea is that this avoids the 'gamieness' described in other threads where players hug the map edges. All the people I've played so far (half a dozen) seem to treat VL's in the same way. The point of a meeting engagement is that both sides were going somewhere in the first place and there's that place, marked with a flag, you can't miss it!