Ranks and medals

Your military rank is a permanent mark of how much you’ve fought, and it makes you hit harder: rank is one of the three inputs to your damage progression multiplier. Rank alone adds up to +0.35 to that multiplier (35% of the base hit), with diminishing returns: about +0.03 at rank 2, +0.175 at rank 11, +0.29 at rank 51 and +0.32 at rank 100. It keeps paying all the way up but never quite reaches the full 0.35.

How you rank up

Every volley you land adds one tenth of its damage (rounded down) to your ranking damage, a lifetime total that only ever goes up. In other words, ranking damage is roughly your total battle damage divided by 10: a volley that deals 150 damage adds 15. A missed volley deals nothing and adds nothing.

Cross a threshold and you promote to the next rank. There are 100 ranks, from raw Conscript to the singular Imperator of Imperix, and the ladder is one smooth curve: the requirement is 100 times the square of (your rank number minus one). So rank 2 needs 100 ranking damage (about 1,000 damage dealt), rank 11 needs 10,000 (about 100,000 damage) and rank 100 needs 980,100 (close to 10 million damage).

The first promotions come within your first sessions of fighting. After that each rank costs a little more than the one before, so the top cohorts represent a genuine career of war.

The ten cohorts

The ranks come in ten cohorts of ten. The first ten are plain entry ranks; from rank 11 up, each cohort is named for an office of the imperial hierarchy. In game, every cohort tints its badges in its own colour, and the top cohort’s badges glow.

Cohort	Ranks	Badge colour	Ranking damage to enter	Approx. damage dealt
Enlisted	1-10	White	0	0
Centurionate	11-20	Bronze	10,000	100,000
Tribunate	21-30	Red	40,000	400,000
Legate	31-40	Gold	90,000	900,000
Dux	41-50	Amber	160,000	1,600,000
Magister	51-60	Cyan	250,000	2,500,000
Strategos	61-70	Sky blue	360,000	3,600,000
Consul	71-80	Indigo	490,000	4,900,000
Archon	81-90	Violet	640,000	6,400,000
Imperator	91-100	Fuchsia, glowing	810,000	8,100,000

Enlisted

Rank	Badge	Title	Ranking damage
1		Conscript	0
2		Private	100
3		Rifleman	400
4		Corporal	900
5		Veteran	1,600
6		Imperial Specialist	2,500
7		Iron Sergeant	3,600
8		Field Sergeant	4,900
9		Sergeant of the Legion	6,400
10		Master Sergeant	8,100

Centurionate

Rank	Badge	Title	Ranking damage
11		Centurion	10,000
12		Iron Centurion	12,100
13		Cohort Centurion	14,400
14		Senior Centurion	16,900
15		Master Centurion	19,600
16		Primus Pilus	22,500
17		First Spear	25,600
18		Castellan	28,900
19		High Castellan	32,400
20		Praefect of the Camp	36,100

Tribunate

Rank	Badge	Title	Ranking damage
21		Tribune	40,000
22		War Tribune	44,100
23		Iron Tribune	48,400
24		High Tribune	52,900
25		Laticlavian Tribune	57,600
26		Praefect	62,500
27		Praetorian Praefect	67,600
28		Lord Praefect	72,900
29		Praetor	78,400
30		High Praetor	84,100

Legate

Rank	Badge	Title	Ranking damage
31		Legate	90,000
32		War Legate	96,100
33		Iron Legate	102,400
34		Legate of the Legion	108,900
35		High Legate	115,600
36		Legate Augustal	122,500
37		Lord Legate	129,600
38		Legate Invictus	136,900
39		Grand Legate	144,400
40		Legate of the Imperium	152,100

Dux

Rank	Badge	Title	Ranking damage
41		Dux	160,000
42		Dux Bellorum	168,100
43		Iron Dux	176,400
44		High Dux	184,900
45		Dux of the Marches	193,600
46		Comes	202,500
47		Comes Militaris	211,600
48		High Comes	220,900
49		Grand Comes	230,400
50		Comes of the Imperium	240,100

Magister

Rank	Badge	Title	Ranking damage
51		Magister Militum	250,000
52		Iron Magister	260,100
53		High Magister	270,400
54		Magister of the Legions	280,900
55		Grand Magister	291,600
56		Magister Aeternus	302,500
57		Lord Magister	313,600
58		Magister Invictus	324,900
59		Magister Primus	336,400
60		Magister of the Imperium	348,100

Strategos

Rank	Badge	Title	Ranking damage
61		Strategos	360,000
62		War Strategos	372,100
63		Iron Strategos	384,400
64		High Strategos	396,900
65		Grand Strategos	409,600
66		Polemarch	422,500
67		Iron Polemarch	435,600
68		High Polemarch	448,900
69		Grand Polemarch	462,400
70		Strategos of the Imperium	476,100

Consul

Rank	Badge	Title	Ranking damage
71		Proconsul	490,000
72		Iron Proconsul	504,100
73		High Proconsul	518,400
74		Grand Proconsul	532,900
75		Consul	547,600
76		Iron Consul	562,500
77		High Consul	577,600
78		Grand Consul	592,900
79		Consul Invictus	608,400
80		Consul of the Imperium	624,100

Archon

Rank	Badge	Title	Ranking damage
81		Archon	640,000
82		Iron Archon	656,100
83		High Archon	672,400
84		Grand Archon	688,900
85		Exarch	705,600
86		Iron Exarch	722,500
87		High Exarch	739,600
88		Grand Exarch	756,900
89		Hegemon	774,400
90		Hegemon of the Imperium	792,100

Imperator

Rank	Badge	Title	Ranking damage
91		Princeps	810,000
92		Princeps Invictus	828,100
93		Dominus	846,400
94		Dominus Aeternus	864,900
95		Imperator	883,600
96		Iron Imperator	902,500
97		Imperator Invictus	921,600
98		Imperator Aeternus	940,900
99		Lord of the Eternal Throne	960,400
100		Imperator of Imperix	980,100

Medals

Alongside rank, fighting earns a repeating combat medal. It’s a single medal that keeps recurring, and it counts your real damage, not ranking damage: the first medal needs 30,000 qualifying damage, the second 60,000 more, the third 90,000 more, and so on, each gap 30,000 longer than the last. Medals arrive quickly at first and then slow down.

Damage qualifies when the battle involves your country (the one you hold citizenship in) or one of its allies, whichever side you fight on. Damage in any other battle earns no medal progress, unless you serve in a mercenary unit: mercenaries earn medal progress from any battle, at 70% of the normal rate.

Every medal pays a flat 10 gold, plus 5% if your unit’s Economy doctrine is at tier 3 or higher. Medals also count toward the Order of Valor achievement.

Tip

Rank, medals and your damage all grow from the same activity: landing hits. You don’t have to grind rank separately. Just keep fighting the wars that matter to your country and it accrues.