Olympia: The Age of Gods PBEM (Oct 4 2000)
The number of provinces a noble controls determines his status or rank and allows all the nobles in that faction to control additional men in battle:
provinces rank control --------- ---- ------- 1-3 lord +4 4-7 knight +5 8-11 baron +6 12-15 count +7 16-19 earl +8 20-22 marquess +9 23+ duke +10 region king +20 (region must have at least 25 provinces)
In addition, if a noble has control over every province in a region, and the region contains at least 25 provinces, then the noble is given the rank of king.