Correct me if I’m wrong, but it feels like knights in DE actually have a later-era helmet than the cavaliers.
This looks like a late medieval helmet design:
This is a great helm from earlier era:
Back in old AOE2 the model was low-poly so it’s hard to tell the helmet type (I thought he was wearing only a chainmail hood, but not really if zoomed in)
Yeah, you’re right. While it’s usually a lot harder than it looks to pin any particular design to any particular age the knight’s helmet does like like it has more advanced features, getting rid of the flat top.
It does have a more open face though, yet somehow less peripheral vision. If you asked an actual knight which helmet they’d prefer they could still pick the cavalier one because of that. In that sense it still works as a unit progression.
