"Keep up! Charge them before they have a chance to react!" Elimon shouted, leading the charge from the very front.
The Beastman Empire's tactics were just this simple and unadorned: everyone followed the boss, and if the boss went down, the second-in-command stepped up.
This was rooted in their backward, tribal, slave-based society. On the battlefield, a Beastman army was primarily composed of individual tribes where most members were related. Aside from their own Chieftain, it was rare for anyone to command their genuine respect.
Of course, another major factor was that no one on the great plains ever had enough to eat. Lacking the large-scale social structures of humans, their military development naturally fell far behind.
The Beastman Empire certainly had races capable of forming professional armies, but the cost was too great. Besides, the Beastmen had always relied on sheer numbers to win their campaigns to the south, so there was little demand for high-quality troops.
