I can’t find anything about hungarian hussars having wings, it seems to only have been done in Poland-Lithuania where hussars got turned into heavy shock cavalry as opposed to light cav.
I guess the issue is the devs added wings on the hussar in The Conquerors while mainly having the polish hussars in mind, so to match that they also gave some to the magyar huszar (it’s a better hussar so he must look as least as impressive as the regular one).
Also been done by turkic deli, tatars and russian lightcav …
My personal guess is that it’s a central asian tradition related to the mythical winged tulpar horse…
- Cataphract : Positive : subtle upgrades to the armor & barding. Negative : gold on too many places, even on the blade of the sword and, once more, on the shield. You should have kept the amount of gold from the regular one, while downgrading the regular to have the golden parts in iron.
Let’s talk about the cataphract. Although the reskin looks really cool, I wouldn’t change anything at the units main body features(shoulders, cape, arms etc are perfect), I think that the horse and the helmet should be different.
Let’s start with the horse. There is only one surviving horse armor today(just a part of it) of a real Roman Cataphract and it was found in the levant region, so basically how a Cataphract’s armor should look like.
Second objection is the helmet. Although the elite version is somehow historically accurate for late era Byzantines, it shouldn’t be on cataphracts. It is not wrong, but to my eyes it looks kind out of place. Maybe the conic/round shaped one looks more fitting
In conclusion, I think they should keep the body of the knight complete the same, replace the horse with the one of the centurion, and add the early DE helmet on them.
Edit:
Here’s what I am thinking, not perfect but you get the idea
On second view it looks more like bronze than gold for the scale, both in your model and some pics you posted.
I agree about the helmet, but it’s hard to design an unit for a civ that has been relevant for that long. For the Franks they fully embraced the throwing axeman being from the merovingian and maybe carolingian period while they didn’t try making him fit the high and late middle ages.
So to put the late byzantine helmet… I once again ask the devs to put regional unit skins.
The same thing happens in AoE 3, so we can let them pass…
The same thing happens in AoE 4, so we can let them pass…
Yes, in AoE 4 they look like this for example…
To be fair, “cataphract” merely means “fully armoured”, and having only one horse armour set doesn’t tell the whole picture. So extrapolating from other armour style they had access to, such as chainmail, wouldn’t be a fault provided it remains a realistic load for the horse and they had the tech to do it. Even mixing the different styles to better protect more vital areas.
