I forget who mentioned it a few issues back, but it seems to me the best justification is that the Agimori are just a plain superior race. They don't call them Men-and-a-Half for nothing.
While we might debate their armament or group military tactics, I think we all still acknowledge and accept their direct ancestry from Lodril. This is how they get their neat "powers", like superhuman endurance, strength, size, and low need for water (a key advantage in the Wastes).
Note how this makes them a baby Elder Race. Aldryami, Mostali, Uz, Broo, Luathans, et al., are all "closer" to their gods than humans. From an RQ stat & ability point of view, they are all superior to humans in their own way. Much like the other Elder Races, if there were more Agimori today, they'd probably kill all the normal humans and take over. The humans are fortunate one of their few advantages is numbers.
Forget tactics and group formations. Maybe an individual Praxian Agimori has just as much one-on-one killing power as a charging Rhino rider (they both have a 6 combat factor in _Nomad Gods_, which is pretty tough for a non-magical unit).
Life is not fair, and life in Prax is even less so. Maybe it's just cosmic unfairness that an Agimori warrior just out of adolescence is already 80% with his spear, and can throw a javelin three times as far as a normal human, and have it hit twice as hard, and has as many hit points as that Sable you're riding, and can run just as fast as it too, and has been socialized from birth that he is better than any other thinking creature around him, and thus fears none of those creatures, and rightfully so.
End of The Glorantha Digest V5 #271
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