Wondering about the Kappadocians

This is really some questions for the EB folks...

I was looking at the Katpatuka Asabara and started thinking. Given the scale leggings these fellows seem to wear, virtually identical to those of the Pontika Spahbed, shouldn't they have a bit higher armour than their Median colleagues who don't have these ? At the moment both are rated armour 9...

Anyway, that wasn't the main point. The combination of scale leg protectors and partial horse bard on the Spahbeds kinda reminds me of the old Achaemenid parapleuridia thingy, which was apparently fairly widely used by better-equipped cavalrymen in Asia Minor at least already before Alexander by what I've read. Given that the Kappadocians seem to be the overall "heaviest" and best equipped of the three Persian-style shock cavalry units (the other two being the Nizakhar Ayrudzi and Mada Asabara), as well as the most expensive, I wonder...

Would it be dreadfully ahistorical to change the Katpatukas' horses to the half-armoured type and duly slightly amp their armour and charge values, and probably slightly raise the costs as well ? Just for private use you understand, but it seems to me that it would be within the confines of credibility (one gets and impression the Kappadocians are a tad higher landed gentry than the two other "Persian" armoured horse types, and could thus presumably afford more extensive war gear) and would add a bit of character to the unit compared to the otherwise rather similar Armenians and Medians - and it's not like it was particularly going to throw campaign balance off the whack or anything, I suspect. Pontos doesn't exactly have the nastiest unit roster to begin with.

'Course, the UI cards would then be a bit off but I don't think that's very important here. :sweatdrop:

Another curio detail: the Kappadocian's shield has a curious texture very similar to their leg armour. Does it represent an outer covering of metal scales, akin to the old Scythian fashion ?