Thread:Vannesira Smith/@comment-25246151-20161229194027/@comment-26581666-20161230014048

Thanks, I never actually picked up on that bit. A Colonel as a naval officer makes sense, there's some easy explanations for it:

- He was a Colonel of Marines, which IRL used to be a post given to a Senior Naval Captain.

- Because Alterac lacks a Major Navy, they use Army ranks as Naval Ranks. Thus Kavdan would have been a Captain or Flag Captain.

- The word for "Naval Captain" in Alteraci (or whatever you wish to call their language) is the same as the word for "Commander" or "Colonel". Like how in Spanish the words/ranks names for Petty Officer and Sergeant are the same.

As for some other suggestions, given that Alterac is the smallest kingdom that isn't a city state, I personally wouldn't give them a full Grand Marshal equivalent as the leader of their army (Sort of like how countries such as New Zealand don't have full Generals as Army Commanders). So I would structure the ranks as follows:

- General (High Marshal/IRL General equivalent) Held by Hath, commander of entire Army.

- Lieutenant General (Field Marshal/IRL Lieutenant General equivalent), Army Second in Command.

- Adjutant General (Lord Marshal/IRL Major General equivalent), Army Logistics Officer.

- Brigade General (Marshal/IRL Brigadier General equivalent), Brigade Commander.

- High Commandant (High Commander/IRL Brigadier equivalent), Brigade Second in Command.

- Commandant (Commander/IRL Colonel equivalent), Regiment Commander

- Lieutenant Commandant (Lieutenant Commander/IRL Lieutenant Colonel equivalent), Regimental Second in Command and Brigade Logistics Officer

- Chief (Major/IRL Major equivalent), Battalion Commander and Regimental Logistics Officer.

- Captain (Captain/IRL Captain equivalent), Company Commander.

- First Lieutenant (Lieutenant/IRL Lieutenant equivalent), Company Second in Command.

- Second Lieutenant (Sub-Lieutenant/IRL Second Lieutenant equivalent), Platoon/Troop Commander, Company Logistics Officer.

- Third Lieutenant (Ensign/IRL Cadet equivalent), Trainee Officer/Musician.

- Chief Adjutant (Chief Sergeant Major equivalent), Army NCO

- First Adjutant (First Sergeant Major equivalent), Brigade NCO

- Adjutant (Sergeant Major equivalent), Regiment NCO

- Chief Watchmaster (Chief Sergeant equivalent), Battalion NCO

- First Watchmaster (Master Sergeant equivalent), Company NCO

- Watchmaster (Sergeant equivalent), Platoon/Troop NCO

- First Corporal (Master Corporal equivalent), Platoon/Troop Logistics Officer

- Corporal (Corporal equivalent), Squad Commander.

- Veteran Soldier (PFC equivalent), Veteran

- Soldier (Private equivalent), Standard Soldier

- Recruit (Recruit equivalent), Recruit.

These are based on the Swiss and Austrian Army ranks, as given Alterac's terrain, Brew-pups and "Alterac Swiss" I'm 99% certain they're based on Switzerland and Austria.

Finally I would change the Regiments to Brigades. Feel free to use/ignore any/all these suggestions, they're only suggestions after all :)