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Jason's idea was reasonable, and the next few days were spent on preparing suitable tactics to make use of all kinds of feasible ideas.
In the end, most tactics remained relatively simple. First, the tribe chiefs became the commanders of their own unit that, in fact, consisted of their former village's villagers.
This was something that had been decided mutually between the villagers and the chief based on the compatibility and trust they had with each other.
Throwing all combatants into one army without a combatant, all of a sudden would only worsen their combat prowess because everyone had to get to know each other first, otherwise, their teamwork would be horrendous.