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When you have completed an achievement, you will be rewarded a medal as well as a designation. You can tap the commander portrait and open the medal interface to see which designation will be rewarded once you have earned a certain medal. 

When your troops have killed a certain number of enemies, it will get acquire a designation randomly from what you already have. Designation for now represents glory, so it has no practical effect.