Generals and colonels are almost always of noble blood, and are drawn from the ranks of the cavalry. The highest rank a commoner can aspire to is sergeant-major in the infantry. However, successful mercenaries sometimes violate this rule.
Corporals are generally infantrists who catch their sergeants eye by showing some initiative.
This rank does not exist in the cavalry, as all cavalrists consider themselves to be of this rank, and will command of infantry at will - whether they obey is a different matter..
Sergeant (signifier): Infantry sergeants are unlike other officers, in that they are picked from the mass of the fighting men, rather than from the upper classes.
Knight-Sergeant (decurion): Knight-sergeants have one of the least gratifying jobs known to noble men. They are tasked to keep the willstrong cavalrymen working as a coherent unit, rather than individual glory hounds. Should a knight-sergeant for some reason be a commoner, he is called a Sergant-of-Horse.
A sergeant’s helmet has a progress of coloured bristles running from front to back.
A lieutenant is usually of noble blood, however thin it may be. A lieutenant’s helmet is affixed with a crest proper, a small animal figure taking either from the charge of his coat of arms, the arms of the army’s liege, or simply an animal he finds sympathetic.
Lieutenants are the mouthpieces of captains, shouting, signalling or otherwise relaying his commands to the sergeants, who in turn shout them to the troops.
They may also be given often he is given independent command of one or more .of one or more squads (cavalry: lances) of men, as a sort of deputy captain, to execute particular tasks in a greater strategy.
A lieutenant’s helmet is affixed with a panache.
Cavalry lieutenants carry horns which they blow to relay orders, and simply to instill their fellows with valour and their enemies with fear.
The commander of a company (cavalry: squadron), a captain may or may not have served as a lieutenant before assuming command.
A captain’s helmet bears a crest proper, a small animal figure taking either from the charge of his coat of arms, the arms of the army’s liege, or simply an animal he finds sympathetic.
Sergeant-Major: The sergeant-major is usually a veteran, and may be a gentleman or a commoner, he is the colonel's right-hand man.
Lieutenant-Colonel:
A colonel’s helmet has a crest proper (his own charge or favoured animal), and is horned (has a golden spikes at the sides)
A general’s helmet has a crest proper (his own charge or favoured animal), and is horned.
| Rank | Infantry | Cavalry | Cargan | Insignia |
| 7 | (General) | General | Legate |
Horns (curling down, up if royal) |
| 6 | (Colonel) | Colonel | Tribune | Wings |
| 5 | Sergeant-Major | Lieutenant-Colonel | Crest-proper | |
| 4 | Captain | Captain | Centurion | Crest-proper |
| 3 | Lieutenant | Lieutenant | Optione | Panache |
| 2 | Sergeant | Knight-Sergeant | Decurion | Bristle process |
| 1 | Corporal | Cavalryman | None | |
| 0 | Private | Shieldbearer | Legionaire | None |