So, Lusted, you can reach this kind of conclusions. Don’t get me wrong. I don’t want to argue. Simply - listen carefully what I’m saying. Firstly, the shield presents Alexander the Great. He’s got persian clothes, because he ‘orientalized’ himself when he was older. Macedonian soldiers had the same pictures. It was used not only when the emperor was alive. It may look as a nonsense, that the soldiers abandoned their shields and made new when the imperator died. These shields weren’t used for 10 years. They might be used for several dozen years, as long as they were undamaged. I don’t want to be spiteful, but when you have done Macedonian units for Alexandros’ mod, there weren’t any symbols on shields, which is a mistake – most of shields from that period had some pictures on it. Moreover, you have given low-varied units. The infantry had only a frighian helmet – in antiquity there were also thracian, frighian, attic and chalcidian helmets. For the cavalry you have given only a beotian helmet, which is also a mistake. You are critising me that I’m mixing several types of armour and I’m giving them to one unit. I’ll give an example. It’s logical when in one picture unit has a blue frighian helmet, and on the other - red, thracian, so in the other picture frighian helmet might be also red. In antiquity there weren’t any identical uniforms. Every warrior armoured himself. I’ve made the helmet from several sources. I’ve seen two photos with winged frighian helmet. In many of them there were a plume which I’ve presented. You have done a model of Alexander the Great for Alexandros’ mod based on the Pompeian painting or Angus McBride’ illustration. I can blame you the same, as you to me, that you’ve mixed styles. How dou you know that Alexander had a beotian helmet that you have used? You’ve thought logical – this kind of helmet was used in Macedonian army then, so the commander might used it too. Simple. I’ve done like you. Using CA elements isn’t prohibited. Every modder uses several textures from RTW etc. , because we are making mod for this game. In your models faces, armours, etc. were from CA textures. But nobody forbids it. Most of the small elements from hellenistic period are only speculations, Ospreys’ pictures too. So you can’t say that the pictures tell the truth. It’s possible that the artist misunderstanded the source.
I think that now you'll understand me.
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