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**Ogryn**

Anyone?

**Castiel**

Lord of the Rings: Gondor

1) Child play-fighting with a stick
2) Eager Youth in training
3) Ranger of Gondor hiding in the undergowth
4) Warrior of Gondor on the walls
5) Trebuchet Crewmember
6) Knight of Minas Tirith preparing to charge
7) Ithilien Ranger lying in ambush
8) Osgiliath Veteran holding the Orcs at bay
9) Citadel Guard protecting the Steward
10) Banner Bearer
11) Captain of Gondor inspiring the men
12) Guard of the Fountain Court
13) Steward of Gondor

Spoiler:

Here's my suggestion for a Gondor rank track. Hope it's some use!

**thenoobbomb**

Should have more action in it, like 'ranger of gondor polishing his sword', or anything like that.

**Castiel**

Right, I'll add some stuff in.

EDIT: Better now?

**thenoobbomb**

Yes. Very better.

**MrMerlin**

How about Traitor Guard?

Bloody smear on the sacraficing altar
blind and deaf sevant with a club
follower with evil intentions
follower with evil intentions and a gun
wicked member of a traitor regiment
traitor guardsman with a big bolter
traitor piloting a cursed sentinel
murderous traitor guardsman veteran
hideous mutant leading his taitor guardsman into battle

**Mr. Oddity**

Hello everyone! Thought I would give ideas for an updated Necron rank path
1.I'll be back...
2.Pile of spare parts
3.On a Tomb Spyder's waiting list
4.Swarmless Scarab
5.Necron Warrior on the warpath
6.Irked Immortal with a Gauss Blaster
7.Terrifying Tesla Carbine Immortal
8.Discriminating Deathmark (not really)
9.Overly Destructive Necron Destroyer
10.Canoptek Wraith waiting with confidence
11.Flayed One with a cloak of flesh
12.Grisly Ghost Ark conductor
13.Pyro pilot of a Triarch Stalker
14.Massive Monolith advancing without pause
15.Necron Lychguard with a lack of levity
16.Cryptic Royal Court Cryptek
17.Levelheaded Necron Lord
18.Overruling Necron Overlord

Spoiler:

**Proiteus**

I would love to see a Pre-heresy thousand sons rank system, tzeentch seems to be mostly deamons? Or if that's too much trouble perhaps at least a wizard or sorcerer rank system?

**kirsanth**

Need to redo the Tomb Kings track, I almost changed but do not want to be a Bone Giant, especially now that there isn't one.

I will try to come up with a list.

**Aerethan**

kirsanth wrote:Need to redo the Tomb Kings track, I almost changed but do not want to be a Bone Giant, especially now that there isn't one.

I will try to come up with a list.

you mean there isn't one of these? http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat570035a&prodId=prod1190071a

**Casey's Law**

On behalf of Dakka's Infinity community i would ask that you add the following rank tracks please.

Spoiler:

**yakface**

The Infinity rank tracks have been added and the Necron rank track has been updated to include units from the most current codex.

Thanks everyone for your continued suggestions!

Automatically Appended Next Post:

I also split the Dark Eldar rank track into 3 distinct ones, as suggested (Kabalite, Wych Cult & Haemonculi Coven).

**Maelstrom808**

Ugh, I went from a freaking pylon to a taxicab driver

Maybe at least change the spelling on grizzly to grisly. As horrifying as the thought of a robot with a beard and lumberjack shirt is, I'd prefer to see the horror of the crons represented along more classical lines

**yakface**

Maelstrom808 wrote:Ugh, I went from a freaking pylon to a taxicab driver

Maybe at least change the spelling on grizzly to grisly. As horrifying as the thought of a robot with a beard and lumberjack shirt is, I'd prefer to see the horror of the crons represented along more classical lines

Sorry about that! Spell check is of no defense against homonyms & and a dash of stupidity.

**4oursword**

Proiteus wrote:I would love to see a Pre-heresy thousand sons rank system, tzeentch seems to be mostly deamons? Or if that's too much trouble perhaps at least a wizard or sorcerer rank system?

1: Novice Neophyte
2: Proud Philosophicus
3: Bolter-Wielding Marine
4: Raptora-In-Training
5: Kine-Shielded Raptora
6: Stoic Sergeant
7: Anathenan-In-Training
8: Thoughtful Anathenan
9: Awesome Assault Marine
10: _Pavoni-In-Training
11:Lightning-Covered Pavoni
12: Dedicated Devastator Marine
13:_Pyrae-In-Training
14: Flame-Wreathed Pyrae
15: Valiant Veteran
16: Stalwart Sekhmet
17: Corvidae-In-Training
18: Perceptive Corvidae
19: Guardian Of The Great Library
20: Unbound Subtle Body

What do you guys think?

Edit to add underscores to change

yrae so the

Orkmoticon doesn't show up.

**Maelstrom808**

yakface wrote:
Maelstrom808 wrote:Ugh, I went from a freaking pylon to a taxicab driver

Maybe at least change the spelling on grizzly to grisly. As horrifying as the thought of a robot with a beard and lumberjack shirt is, I'd prefer to see the horror of the crons represented along more classical lines

Sorry about that! Spell check is of no defense against homonyms & and a dash of stupidity.

It's all good and appreciate the change

**zedmeister**

Nevermind...

**Ouze**

What do you think about changing "freaky flayed one" to something grimdarker, like: ferocious, frenzied, fearsome, forlorn.

**YELLOWBLADES**

New infinity army release recently called tohaa and decided to have a go at doing a rank track for them, bearing in mind I only had a few units and minimal fluff to work with...

Curious Civilian
Aspiring Scientist
Trooper in Training
Advancing Kamael
Tohaan Delegate
Stalwart Infiltrator
Striking Sakiel
Gao-Real with Combi-Rifle
Heavy Hatail
Trident Commander
Electrifying Ectros

**AduroT**

Whoever put in Bane Lord Tartar Sauce for the Cryx rank track earns my undieing love and affection.

**nonowho**

ELDAR

1) Gullible guardian
2) Despicable Dire Avenger
3) Repulsive Ranger
4) Hijacked jetbike
5) Banished Banshee
6) Eccentric Exarch
7) War-torn Warlock
8) Far-out farseer
9) Devious Death Jester
10) Well-oiled War Walker
12) Fiery Phoenix Lord
13) Warlike Wraithlord
14) Angry Avatar
15) Everlasting Eldrad

**Eldercaveman**

In response to this thread

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/90/513517.page#5383768

There are a few of us now think we deserve a ranking track as the MOD fanboys, I'll work on the tracking names, if you could make this happen?

**Earth Pope**

I would love to see a Carcharodons track, also it should be changed so that if we pass a rank that we like, we should be able to go back to it.

**Theophony**

How about a necromunda themed rank system

**warboss**

On account of the upcoming Robotech minis game, I figured a Robotech Macross themed ranking system might be in order. I've listed the first 16 here with the last two PM'ed to Yak.

Scared Civilian
Flying Circus Pro
Macross City Mayor
Micronized Spy
Raw UEDF Recruit
Destroid Rookie
VF-1A Red Shirt
Proven Destroid Pilot
VF-1J Flight Commander
Pin-Point Barrier Jockey
Grizzled Destroid Veteran
VF-1S Squadron Leader
Skull Leader
Sexy SDF Bridge Officer
Super Dimensional Captain
Respected UEDF Admiral
****PM'ed to Yak****
****PM'ed to Yak****

**The Shadow**

Rohan for LotR:

1) Cleaning Out Horse Dung
2) Lowly Stable Boy
3) Caring Rohan Citizen
4) Helpful Horse Groomer
5) Righteous Rohan Soldier
6) Helm's Deep Defender
7) Rampant Rohirrim
8) Stalwart Shieldman of Rohan
9) Elite Royal Guard of Rohan
10) Doorkeeper of Meduseld
11) Mighty Mearas Rider
12) Daring Descendant of Eorl
13) Regal Rohan Banner Bearer
14) Corageous Rohan Captain
15) Marshall of the Riddermark
16) Kingly Rohan-King

I have thought of two special ones. If you're interested, shoot me a PM

Also, think the following should be added to the HE ranking track:

Swift Sea Helm on a Skycutter
Anointed of Asuryan on a Pheonix

**warboss**

Just checking to see if Yak or Lego have had a chance to take a look and see if the Robotech Track has any potential.

**yakface**

warboss wrote:
Just checking to see if Yak or Lego have had a chance to take a look and see if the Robotech Track has any potential.

I have seen it and it is something that looks good enough to add. It just takes me a while to add a new rank track, so I always put it off until I have some time to sit down and do it, and that typically just keeps getting pushed back and back and back.

Can you just double check every individual rank and make sure that seen on their own (without the rest of the rank track) you can petty much tell what rank track a person is on just by seeing that one individual rank? Stuff like 'Pin-Point Barrier Jockey'...is that a unique Robotech name of a robot or something?

If you can just make sure every individual rank on its own makes it clear what rank track it is on, then it should be good.

I guess another question...are Destroids the bad guys? Or some kind of craft? Is this like a mixed track where you have both the Zentradi and Macross ranks mixed in together?

**warboss**

yakface wrote:

I have seen it and it is something that looks good enough to add. It just takes me a while to add a new rank track, so I always put it off until I have some time to sit down and do it, and that typically just keeps getting pushed back and back and back.

Thanks for the reply. I just figured I'd check in and see if you had a chance to look through it as I figured it would take time to code from your earlier posts in the thread.

yakface wrote:

Can you just double check every individual rank and make sure that seen on their own (without the rest of the rank track) you can petty much tell what rank track a person is on just by seeing that one individual rank? Stuff like 'Pin-Point Barrier Jockey'...is that a unique Robotech name of a robot or something?

If you can just make sure every individual rank on its own makes it clear what rank track it is on, then it should be good.

I guess another question...are Destroids the bad guys? Or some kind of craft? Is this like a mixed track where you have both the Zentradi and Macross ranks mixed in together?

They're all robotech unique for the main "good guy" human faction in the most popular era. I had initially thought of adding in zentraedi alien ranks but it felt odd seeing most of them in there (like having an eldar rank pop up in a mainly IG and space marine themed track). If this one track became popular after the end of the kickstarter, I figured I'd make a combined alien track (with all 3 alien ranks in one track) for Robotech as well. I can make them a bit clearer if you don't think they'll be too many characters (I was worried about hitting some sort of max # of characters limit possibly). The pin point barrier (I threw in "jockey" for humor instead of crewman) is a trackball controlled pong-like shield system on the main ship in robotech so should be recognizable to fans and Destroid is the general term for the human non-transformable mech. I never realized it since I've been familiar with the term for decades but destroid does indeed sound quite evil.

A pinpoint barrier system technician at work during an attack

I'll ask Manchu to take a peek and see if he can make sense of them as he's a fan as well to make sure it's not too insular (Alpharius is in the kickstarter as well but isn't familiar with the background). In the meantime, I'll add in some more descriptive terms to make them more recognizable.

Scared Macross Civilian
Macross Small Business Owner
Micronized Zentraedi Spy
Macross City Mayor
Raw SDF-1 Recruit
Expendable Destroid Rookie
VF-1A Valkyrie Red Shirt
Proven Destroid Pilot
VF-1J Valkyrie Flight Commander
Pin-Point Barrier System Jockey
Grizzled Destroid Veteran
VF-1S Valkyrie Squadron Leader
Super Valkyrie Flying Ace
Skull Leader
Sexy SDF Bridge Officer
Super Dimensional Captain
****PM'ed to Yak****
****PM'ed to Yak****

**yakface**

Ah yes, I remember the trackball operators fondly now that I think about it!

The edits look good to me. Consider it on the queue, although I'm not entirely sure when I will get to it. Feel free to pester, though.