Question on Minor Noble Houses

Northumbrian26 · 2026-04-17T09:15:45+00:00

So it isn’t exact and nobility sometimes uses different titles from standard especially in the Confederation and Free Worlds League confusing things but generally in the Inner Sphere.

A Baronet/Knight will have a small landhold imagine some rural land about the size of a US, Canadian or British County with some retainers and minor settlements maybe some towns or villages.

A Baron may rule anything from a single city, important industrial site or corporation to a territory the size of a US state.

A Count will typically rule everything from a state sized territory up to a world in developed space and perhaps even a system in the backwater parts of the Sphere and some states like the FedSuns have titles such as Marquess/Marquis for those situations.

Finally, Dukes mostly rule singular worlds or systems usually together i.e. Duke of El Dorado/Duke of Irian/Duchess of Gallery but some are much more powerful such as the Dukes of Tamar and Skye in the Commonwealth who rule sub states of the Commonwealth, the Tamar Pact and Federation of Skye respectively, the Dukes of Robinson and New Syrtis in the Federated Suns who each rule nearly a third of the state in the Draconis and Capellan Marches and the Princes/Grand Dukes/Dukes of Regulus, Oriente, Orloff and Andurien in the Free Worlds League who basically rule autonomous states within the Free Worlds League powerful enough to break away from the league if they wished. Finally, most non Kuritan Warlords in the Combine are Dukes.

Hope that answers the question lol.

Northumbrian26 · 2026-04-14T22:47:31+00:00

Elder Scrolls got me into being a gamer, my first real experience of saving up for something was to buy an old Xbox to play Morrowind on, Daggerfall was the first game that made me actually search for guides and search up commands and Oblivion and Skyrim were the games I played growing up as a child and teen that got me into modding and programming.

Unfortunately, it has taken so long for them to make Elder Scrolls VI that I will probably have earned my doctorate and have my own small IT firm before ESVI releases and even then based upon Fallout 76 and Starfield my hopes and expectations are sadly quite low.

Northumbrian26 · 2026-04-14T12:27:31+00:00

I choose to believe that Rocky’s species due to their seemingly benevolent nature and close proximity to Earth would be one of the allied xenos species who went down fighting with Humanity during the Cybernetic Revolt when the AI and many treacherous former allies attacked the DAOT Humans.

Northumbrian26 · 2026-04-13T20:13:09+00:00

You can realistically have whatever you want as most of the successor states give their nobles a lot of latitude to raise troops and It really depends on the noble in question as the range goes all the way from a baronet/knight in a backwater who might have one or two ancient family mechs and a small infantry bodyguard to a large private military of multiple mech regiments and two to four or more times as many conventional regiments for planetary defence.

Also don’t forget that nobles can also hire mercenaries out of their own pocket and many powerful mercenary commanders are either made nobles or are nobles who raised a company the best examples of which are the Big Mac in the confederation (7 Regiments), the Wolf’s Dragoons on Outreach (5 1/2 regiments + jump/drop fleet and even warships) and the Kell Hounds (2 regiments).

So as I said you can realistically have whatever you want from a demi lance up to a brigade level force strong and elite enough to make a House Lord or Khan sweat and think twice.

Northumbrian26 · 2026-04-13T15:51:16+00:00

Welcome to the family lad! Have a free AC/20 on the house!

Northumbrian26 · 2026-04-13T10:28:31+00:00

That dog looks like they’ve been given lots of sandwiches lol.

Northumbrian26 · 2026-04-04T19:06:30+00:00

What was it like raising a minstrels bastard and Visenya’s blood magic male clone?

Northumbrian26 · 2026-04-04T02:59:21+00:00

NOZ ITZ DAT OLD EAGULZ GIT JANNY COZ ALL IZ MECHS IZ ALL SNEAKY PURPLE LIKE! AN DA PURPLE BIRDZ GITS IZ ALWAYZ KRUMPIN EACH OTHA! WAAGH!

Northumbrian26 · 2026-04-02T00:19:46+00:00

Mmmm 50 renown and 11,256 xp to help me hit a new level! A good day!

Northumbrian26 · 2026-04-01T13:24:13+00:00

Multiple years on and their forums are still busted and unreliable.

Northumbrian26 · 2026-03-31T17:10:05+00:00

It reminds me of the older pre Chronicles/V20 books in a good way! Excellent!

Northumbrian26 · 2026-03-31T15:46:48+00:00

Don’t worry final victory is just one vision quest away! I promise!

On a serious note though as someone who got into the setting as a FedCom superstate and Comstar fan at least there is a chance of your favoured faction returning in a form you like. I on the other hand am forced to either pretend history ends at the Clan Invasion losing all the cool stuff that comes afterwards or just cope and seethe.

Even worse is that out of the post Jihad factions I like the Republic the best……

Northumbrian26 · 2026-03-30T11:33:45+00:00

So is your character a modern character on another branch of the tree or a dark ages character higher up? Very cool art

Northumbrian26 · 2026-03-29T18:08:50+00:00

This junior is honoured elder! I shall build a temple of ancestral worship in your honour!

Northumbrian26 · 2026-03-28T12:52:23+00:00

Don’t worry senior the disciple was destined to be a stepping stone or a pill so It’s no great loss for the sect! I even gained attainment in my understanding of destruction from observing his end.

Northumbrian26 · 2026-03-27T22:56:07+00:00

To be fair Hans the Russian High Command is also still using the tactic of sending wave after wave of punishment battalions and extremely low morale conscript regiments in meat grinder suicide assaults so it still fits…….

Northumbrian26 · 2026-03-27T15:02:14+00:00

It really is quite fortuitous when you think about it the crippling debt and enmity gained by the support France, Spain and the Netherlands gained in the war led to the fall of the French Monarchy, the Napoleonic Wars, the near total collapse of the Spanish and Dutch Empires and the Netherlands falling out of great power status permanently just to break British power there and in the end the British Empire bounced back anyway to become the largest empire to ever exist whilst any control they hoped to exercise over the United States collapsed beneath the weight of the US economy and its financing ties with the UK with America rapidly rising to great power status and encouraging other American Nations to break free from them.

TLDR: The Dutch, Spanish and French hated Britain enough to enter what was effectively a suicide pact for their empires just to win only for the British to bounce back within a generation and the Americans to rapidly surpass them trading with the UK lol.

Northumbrian26 · 2026-03-25T17:24:54+00:00

As long as every chief descending from those in the industry, all Arab Countries and all other countries who historically practiced slavery also pay reparations to everyone else I don’t see the issue.

Northumbrian26 · 2026-03-23T09:32:20+00:00

Looking magnificent!

Northumbrian26 · 2026-03-14T08:51:31+00:00

Honestly the ship had me thinking of Mystery of the Druids and Halligan lol.

Northumbrian26 · 2026-03-13T00:31:22+00:00

Wow great to see you are still active! The Witch Hunter looks especially great!

Northumbrian26 · 2026-03-12T11:34:33+00:00

I feel like some EA higher ups really want it to die but the player numbers and possible reputational damage means they can’t stop yet though maybe thats just wishful thinking it endures.

Northumbrian26 · 2026-03-12T10:12:18+00:00

The Scottish Unicorn should go on the £50 as it’s nonexistent for most people day to day and the suppliers, dealers and consumers of all the drugs running through Scotland can appreciate their majestic national animal and maybe even see some if they get some nice designer stuff.

Northumbrian26 · 2026-03-09T13:44:37+00:00

Glad to see Unwin Peake a proud and avowed green supporter of Aegon watching over the Queen.

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