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I suspect that Kingdom Come: Deliverance has the pigs in their work accurate to what it was at the time and the author is taking sources about specific regions and then extrapolating over all of Europe. Yes, there are inaccuracies in most games, but I suspect that the author is also themselves inaccurate.

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What do you base that on? This seems like a pretty long bow to draw; pigs didn’t look like they do now, that’s a pretty accepted fact, even if you might quibble with their other points.

Probably based on the sheer level of detail and research that went into making that game.

It’s easy to overlook something and get it wrong. And they also took plenty of artistic liberties, like having highly anachronistic clothing and armor for Hungarian Cumans in the setting.

And it's very easy for an author of an opinion piece such as this to overlook something or over extrapolate something or assume that medieval drawings are accurate. In the case of this article, most of what the author has cited is information about the British Isles and then extrapolated that information to cover all of Europe even though regional differences almost certainly existed and things likely changed over time as well. It's not like the world was just static for 600+ years.

These are expert historians, not random people posting an "opinion piece". Do you have information they don't that shows that they're wrong here?

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