Ian.Plumb wrote:
A Captain commands a company of men, perhaps 3 platoons (from the 17th century French peleton). A lieutenant commands a platoon (perhaps two or three dozen men). As I understand it, the Captain is the highest rank deployed in the field.
The commissioned officers hold their commission from the King. Warrant officers hold their warrant from a commissioned officer, typically the commander of the unit. A warrant officer ranked above the non-commissioned officers and troops. They were the specialists -- doctors, engineers, and other professionals required by the unit.
Yes, that all makes sense -- doctor would hold a position of a surgeon (warrant officer), not a lieutenancy or captaincy, who deal with commanding the men.
Daeruin wrote:
Would there really only be one captain over all the guards? 150 people is a pretty big group for one guy to be in charge of without some underlings to help out. Surely they would be split into squads of some sort.
He would have lieutenants and a french captain would probably command 150 men or a little less. As I've understood, colonel commands a battalion which holds about 800 men. In Napoleonic Wars, the British divided them their battalions into 10 companies, while the French divided into 6. Each of those companies would be commanded by a captain, so, 150 is a
bit above the norm in France but not much. It's always been puzzling to me how the major fits in all that.
Also, in the era we're talking about here, there were no bayonets, so, the company would consist of both "pike" and "shot" in a 2/3 ratio. The guards having MUCH different duties than fighting in major battles would probably be an exception to this with no pikemen. It is also unclear to me whether the musketeers would be using matchlocks, wheellocks or flintlocks. As they were the elite, I think wheellocks make sense, as it's a bit early for flintlocks...
So, your table makes sense but I have no wish to distinguish the ranks in this particular game. They're all more or less equal and I simply gave away the captaincy as I didn't want to be the one who would give them explicit orders.

Grettir wrote:
He fled there
I like it.

Grettir wrote:
There’s also one more thing. I suspect you’ll do like this anyway, but if you are already going against Dumas’ clichés, you might as well do it all the way:
Well, I wasn't actually going to use the characters from the
Musketeers. My memories of the book are hazy at best and so I'm going to make it in an alternative history line of game... because I'm quite sure the Duke of Buckingham will be shot and possibly killed, should he somehow manage to be in range for the crack-shot character. Doesn't matter in the big picture, he was historically dead soon after the siege anyway.

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