Hun chieftain The Hun chieftain is not necessarily the strongest but definitely the most cunning and brutal warrior of his tribe. He deals with all matters concerning his tribe without being bound by any rules or advice. Contradiction or objection to his decisions is punishable by death. Only the shaman is in a position to be able to contradict a chieftain without being punished. Shaman The culture of the Huns is based on a deeply rooted belief in the powers of nature. Their religious cosmos is populated with ill-tempered gods and demons who are all malicious or at best indifferent with regard to the fate of humans. The shaman has a central position in the life of the Huns because she alone is able to interpret the will of the gods and can thus avert a potential threatening disaster. Skull breaker (warrior with a club) The skull breaker is the most primitive warrior of the Huns. Tribal members with a lot of muscle and little brain are just given a large piece of wood, pointed in the right direction and then sent off with a kick in the ass. Skull breakers who survive their first battle sometimes get the chance to prove themselves afterwards with more complicated weapons, like e.g. the curved sword. Long-range killers (warrior with a bow and arrow) Long-range killers are tribal members who normally would be responsible as hunters for supplying the tribe with fresh meat. As they do not differentiate between people and animals in this civil function, they can also be used without problem on the battlefield. Belly slashers (warrior with a sword and shield) The belly slasher equipped with a curved sword and leather shield is a relatively experienced warrior, who has set himself the goal of being adopted to the ranks of the mounted warriors. As this type of honor can only be granted by the leader of a tribe, a belly slasher is normally extremely loyal to his chieftain. Man splitter (rider with sword and shield) The man splitter is the archetypal Hun mounted warrior: wild, brutal and experienced in battle. These warriors spend a large part of lives on horseback from where they look down with considerable scorn on the “pedestrians” of their tribe. Amazons (female rider with a bow and arrow) The mounted archers did not originally belong to the Hun culture in which the woman plays a subordinate role in every walk of life. As the wild nomads however encountered a nation during their travels that had almost exclusively female warriors, the Amazons gained their respect so quickly that they have now become a fixed contingency of any larger Hun battle horde. Roman death (rider with a lance and shield) After the Huns had clashed with the Roman cavalry for the first time and discovered that they were a worthy opponent, it didn't take long for the nomad riders to discover the lance – or at least their version of this pike weapon– as a sufficiently suitable means for fighting the imperial mounted troops. Man splitters who adopted this ungainly but very effective weapon were given the honorable title of “Roman death”.