as the title says, the ones that were around atriox when he first encountered the Spartans and the ones that Jerome fought on the Endless Conviction, are those suppose to be jump brutes or brute warlords or just brutes with hammers that dont belong to either class of soldier
I would think Warlords, speaking logically. It seems wise to have your best soldiers guarding your leader.
At least for the first encounter, I am pretty sure they are warlords, because once the game returns to in-engine display it is a warlord that’s chasing after the Spartans.