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No personal experience with tortoises here either, but I would imagine it works well with tortoises because of something involving the "chalking" process, where the egg whitens if it is fertile a few days after hatching. Unlike some reptile eggs, where you can tell fertility almost immediately (which I imagine indicates the embryo has begun and is more fragile?), tortoises have that wait period, so they may be more forgiving for the time period before they chalk.
This is all speculation, I'm no expert on the biology of eggs, but that is what would make most sense to me logically looking at the development process.
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