How many baggage elements?

[Valentinian Victor]

Sorry, but I'm having a 'senior moment'!
How many baggage elements can each command have?
From my reading of the rules it would appear to indicate each command can have 0, 1 or 2 baggage elements, is this correct?
If I'm correct in thinking a command can have 1 baggage element instead of 2, can this still be placed in the army baggage command?
If I have 3 commands, one of whom has two baggage elements, the other two one baggage elements, and they are in the army baggage command, how do you work out the ME benefits?
Sorry if this is a bit of a basic question.

[toby]

No -its probably one of the most complex parts of the rules.

Any general can have 0-2 baggage (some army lists may not allow certain generals to have baggage possibly).

Baggage can be either army or command. A general may only have army or command (unless an ally who can only have command), he may not have 1 army and 1 command baggage.

Army baggage may be assigned to a normal command or put in a special train command (but the train command must have at least 4 elements in it).

Any non-allied command that does not have command baggage gets the benefit of army baggage (0.5 ME per element), even if it did not contribute.

Toby

[Valentinian Victor]

Thanks for the reply,
So, commands can have just the one element of baggage each, which can be in the army baggage command?

[Hammy]

Yes but only if there are four commands or another train element in the army baggage command as the minimum size of the baggage command is 4 elements.

[Valentinian Victor]

Thanks Hammy, I thought that might be right, thats why my Late Imperial Romans have the C-in-C's command put his two elements of Bge(O) in the Army Baggage Command, with the two sub-gens only having paid for one element of Bge(O) and also in the Army Baggage Command. Saved a lot of points by doing that!

[landmeister]

Any general can have 0-2 baggage (some army lists may not allow certain generals to have baggage possibly).

...he may not have 1 army and 1 command baggage.

Sorry, but does it mean that any troops numbered 0-8, for example means that 6 elements are not an elegible number?  I think 0-2 means from 0 and up to 2, as 0-8 means from zero and up to 8.

Right?

[MikeCampbell]

Yes that's right - the thing with baggage is that a command cannot have both command and army baggage - ALL of it's baggage must be command baggage, or ALL of it must be army baggage.

So if you have 2 elements of baggage you cannot have 1 of them as command baggage and the other as army baggage.

Note that Bg(S) counts towards the 0-2 total too - but it's useless as army baggage and so pretty much forces the command it is in to have command baggage.