Looking for some interesting paramilitary appropriate ranks and soldier archetypes. We're talking private thru colonel...

Looking for some interesting paramilitary appropriate ranks and soldier archetypes. We're talking private thru colonel, and anything from sci-fi to milspec or whatever. Bonus points for shit more creative then ranger, rifleman and assault.

Think you fags can help me out?

Well now I won't.

You want regular military ranks or made up ones?

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come on faggot, it's for a good cause :^)

Sorry user, I have no clue how ranking works, I just came here to poke you. Good luck however.

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Preferably second. We're talking Brotherhood of Nod-tier or similar.

Don't worry user, you're fitting perfectly.

What's the Paramilitary theme? BOS has a medieval flair to its ranks.

Space kebab removal. I'm fishing for a xenonauts overhaul theme and I'd rather try something else then my roman/chesspiece fallback

Well then you have a navel focus as well since it's in space.

Ranks from lowest to highest:

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I want to see the Commodore rank used again.

What if he tries to bite your dick?

Interesting idea, tftd vibe? I'm just surprised you didn't use rear admiral :^)

The slut'll get one of these put on 'em.

Well if we are talking Xenonauts then we are sort of talking about space marines, so I thought it would be wise to focus on ground troops with some Navel influence.

Nerd-Peasant
Peasant
Peasant-Private
Buck-Private
Private
Private Second Class
Private First Class
Private Elite
Sub-Specialist (Rifleman, Ranger, Assault, etc.)
Specialist (Rifleman, Ranger, Assault, etc.)
And then whatever.

Staying as Peasant until level 50 unlocks the Super Peasant rank which gives access to the initial clearances of the other rankings.

Just SS that shit up.

To look at that, you need to understand the purpose of ranks first. So let's look at the army:

The basic unit of the Army is the squad, which is roughly ten men. The leader of the squad is generally a Staff Sergeant. A Sergeant or Corporal, or senior Private/PFC, will be the Team Leader. The TL is the right hand man for the SL, and is his back up in case shit goes down. When the squad splits, the TL takes one half, the SL takes the other.

Squads are organized into platoons of forty. Platoons are put under the charge of a Sergeant First Class, acting as Platoon Sergeant. Platoons are organized into companies, which are under the charge of a Master Sergeant, acting as First Sergeant. SFC and MSG ranked individuals can be found in non-leadership roles as well doing things that require higher levels of clearance.

Battalion level and higher starts getting into have the Sergeant Majors involved.

Note that even a Corporal has been in the service for at least a few years. In contrast, an incoming 2LT (except for one who has been enlisted prior) is a complete novice. And yet despite this, his first assignment is being put in charge of a platoon as the Platoon Leader (or PL). He will work alongside his Platoon Sergeant. If he's smart, he'll learn from his PSG, and become a good leader in his own right. If he's not, he'll do some dumbass shit like trying to pull rank on a CSM whose best friend is the battalion commander.

Captains are put in charge of a company as the Company Commander. They work alongside the First Sergeant. Colonels are put in charge of battalions, with an executive officer who is a Lieutenant Colonel and a staff of Majors. The staff only occurs at battalions and larger, with staff jobs being things like security office, adjutant, chaplain, and so on. Generals and the senior Sergeant Majors handle everything above that. Things get more complicated one you hit the DOD as a whole, which composes every military branch, and civilian aspects.

Warrant Officers are enlisted individuals who are not commissioned officers. They are pretty much the most badass motherfuckers, because while they're not generalist officers, they are specialized as fuck in the area they were given the rank for. They are the rarest individuals to be spotted in the service because not many people become warrant officers, but when they're called in, it's because they're really fucking good at it. The Warrant Officer who specializes in piloting helicopters, for instance, is going to be able to safely land one with its fucking rotor shot off, and nobody will bat an eye.

Specialists are exactly what that implies. They specialize in something.

This is all incredibly general, but the thing it's meant to hammer in is this: Rank structure exists to create two separate areas, the command (officers) and the execution (enlisted), all present to ensure the proper facilitation of activities and a cohesive organization. So just keep that in mind when developing a rank structure.

Merican rankings are retarded

It was more to illustrate the point but it's always nice to see at least a few of our /k/ommando crossposters alive and well.


A perfectly reasonable suggestion, danke schön.


Tried looking at the french ones?

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What's the difference between a Corporal and Specialist?

How so, they seem pretty straightforward to me

Specialist fills a specific role like a Technician, Engineer and so on while corporal is just a grunt.

Corporal is a butt-monkey who sucks too much to get an NCO promotion but has been in too long to stay a private, essentially. There are good corporals of course, but shitty corporals is pretty much an accepted meme.

Specialists are specialists. They are generally very technical with their work, though not as much as warrant officers and the like would. They're not just grunts. Lots of specialists have college degrees, despite being non-officers.


They are incredibly efficient actually, and are built upon much older traditions stretching back to the Roman empire.

How would someone make a ranking system based off Gachimuchi?

I know the lowest rank would be college boy

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I presume it would go from jabroni to boss with aniki being either a sergeant or a lieutenant, and various types of boy serving as NCOs. College boy, Boy-next-door, etc.
I also suppose you'd have specialists such as forest fairy or leatherhead

Boss of the Gym would be a General?

Then you have to look outside NATO countries, as NATO unified the ranking system of its members.

Just follow a general Military Ranking system like the American or British and then replace the words with ones that would fit the Paramility unit you're creating.

Like Sergeant = Junior Knight or whatever

Chemical Warfareman (USCG)
Quatermaster

More ideas welcome

Works perfectly here so why not in real life?

Possibly a Rear Brigadier. :^)


Paramilitary as in militias, freikorps, mercenaries, terrorist cells etc and not as in straight up military.


That was the idea, but again I'm fishing for a theme.


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