The Council [C]

[jammi]

Not being a military person myself I probably wont be able to address this as well as another, but I would imagine in conflict such as this, the revolting group wouldn't necessarily have the luxury to deny command positions based on whether an officer is commissioned or not. With the Council's limited resources proper training might not always be available. Also, to be honest, I have not seen an official faction that does this to my recollection, might you be able to point one out?
Thanks everyone for your feedback so far.

Well, it's not a matter of having enough commissioned officers, pe se, but the fact that you jump from an NCO hierarchy to a Commissioned one. The jump from sergeant to lieutenant, for example. In any military force, the two are kept explicitly separate in the name of preserving discipline.

A more unique system would be to have two parallel rank structures, consisting of NCOs and Officers. Dunno how that would work though. Officer/NCO relations would be a bit of a prickly subject ingame. Currently it's bad enough with subordinates dealing with superiors, and that's without bringing in the military class system of commissions.

Ah well. Something to think about anyway.

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