Now come on,
first you criticise CA for not being true to history.
Then they get everything right on a unit (Boetian helmet, linen/leather curiass, lance, horse hair plume and yes, decorative plumes on the helmet sides)
and just because you think it looks funny you tell them its bad and they should get rid of it
Imagine how funny it might have looked from a persian conscripted farmers point of view, (all dressed in pink and badly equiped) seeing these guys charging at you

And try to tell him he looks like a bunny:
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