Talk:Order/@comment-5.166.60.127-20150713170050/@comment-12776-20150714071524

Power of connection, sure. But power of raw strength, not so much. Someone who's more well-liked by comrades and superiors will get promotion ahead of loner fighter.

Prestige, agian, being respectable soldier is different from being respectable commander. If anything, it guarantee that you will remain at low rank where you'll be more useful (or you may have special rank, which pay well but no actual power in chain of command). People will proud of you exactly like how they're proud of their equipments - valuable, neccessary, and totally expendable ("Nobody will miss him anyway.").

You may do better as cutthroat bandit who can command his subordinate with pure fear, but not in army.