Gosh. The artist intended to portray accurate footwear, which doesn't have straight edges near the eyelets, but curved ones, as every piece of evidence shows. You are just making up what you can't see from a far away sideways drawing.   Delusional.   Not enough.   Which is just what I did, in a couple of lines. It's you who started acting like some kind of crazy person regurgitating posts that didn't even address the actual point. Just go back and read again.   It's not hyper-realism, it's pointing out errors to filter some of all this information. I am also concerned and commented about combat disorganisation, but that is irrelevant right now.   Sure, you can keep you-are-new-splaining after an error is pointed out if you want, I just think it would be better for you to try not to look like an ass.   Look in the mirror after reading all this exchange again.   Why only one? I went through about a dozen books for the Spartans, and same for the Athenians. I went through one just for the Sasanians (and at least an additional article) because @wowgetoffyourcellphone wanted information fast, and I was shifting my focus from what I was actually doing. Ideally I'd want to go through all vanilla and then DE civilisations, but available time is obviously an issue, which I'd prefer not to waste because some crazy person on the forum can't tolerate being told that one of this random AI images have inaccurate footwear and thus needs to demean the discussion he himself says is supposed to happen, which makes the whole thing utterly ridiculous.

@Thalatta I recommend you buy a good book and read it cover to cover, then tell me what the armies of Palmyra looked like, their composition, mercenaries, and equipment, detail by detail. It would save me time. Save me time? Not just me... everyone. Thanks for reading.

I read quite a bit, thanks. If the AI bothers you, just say so; you don't have to act like some kind of crazy person.   I've already dealt with people like you who want hyper-realism in a game. You should be more concerned about the units getting disorganized in combat. You're new here, I'm only seeing you this year. Stop telling me what I can and can't do. This is how we sometimes lose people who come to work on our project. You need to be smart and leave your ridiculous fanaticism outside. (It doesn't impress me.) @Anaxandridas ho Skandiates  had already given me this level of trouble in the past. It's a bit hypocritical to say I can't use AI to play or imagine when Depends Est uses quite a bit of it. But I'm not criticizing WoW; he's an artist, and I understand.

They didn't know and nobody complained about it until today. Not everyone is obligated to know what others do. Although artists are trained to know everything.

You and the commissioned artist judge what the original artist intended to do. Your definition of modern is different from my definition of modern.