[Sombre]

Attached is my take on the 'False knight' / cataphract / evil cowardly heavy cavalry / thingy.

The reason there are 4 pics (8 including attack sprites) is simple. I made a gold one, changed the shield and couldn't decide if it looked better or not, then quickly made 'silver/iron/steel' versions as well. I have no idea which would be best for your purposes, although that much iron or steel barding kinda wouldn't make sense in the early era, so I'd guess the gold/bronze one is better.

I really like 'em. I'm quite excited about a future matchup between evil cowardly persian-esque Padmassans and equally evil but suicidally brave spartan-esque Argans.

Let me know what you think. Any of you :]

And yes, I know they don't exactly fit a description you gave, other than being assyrian(ish).