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Baggage Trains
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The destruction of an army's supply train can bring a campaign to a grinding halt as soldiers succumb to the need to find food and fresh water. To represent this, baggage trains may be used as a Secondary objective.

A baggage train should be represented by a miniature diorama occupying a 60 x 100 mm base. Baggage trains are treated as dangerous terrain for the purposes of movement, but are ignored for the purposes of line of sight.

Placing Baggage Trains

Baggage trains are placed after the battlefield has been set up but before deployment begins. Each player places their baggage train on the battlefield so that it is wholly within their deployment zone and at least 3" away from any battlefield edge. Baggage trains may not be placed within a terrain feature of any type or straddling a low linear obstacle.

Once placed on the battlefield, a baggage train cannot be moved for any reason.

Controlling Baggage

A baggage train can be controlled by a single unit that is within 6" of it, that has a Unit Strength of 10 or more, that is not fleeing and that has not succumbed to Stupidity. If two or more eligible units are within 6" of a baggage train, the closest unit controls it. However, if two or more eligible enemy units are equally close, the baggage train is contested' and neither unit controls it.

Destroying Baggage

A unit with a Unit Strength of 5 or more can attempt to destroy the enemy's baggage train by moving into base contact with it during the Remaining Moves sub-phase. Once a unit is in base contact with the enemy's baggage train, it begins the process of destroying it, shattering wagon wheels, sending camp attendants fleeing to the hills and putting supplies to the torch. Whilst a unit is in base contact with the enemy's baggage train it cannot shoot and can only cast spells with a range of 'Combat' or 'Self.

If, at the beginning of their next Start of Turn sub-phase, the unit is still in base contact with the baggage train, has a Unit Strength of 5 or more, is not engaged in combat and is not fleeing, the baggage is destroyed and removed from the battlefield.

Victory Points: For each baggage train a player controls at the end of the battle, that player wins a bonus of 100 VP. If a player destroys their opponent's baggage train, they win a bonus of 250 VP.

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