Elite Dacian skirmishers... overpriced???

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I just opened my KH campaign and a unit of spartan hoplites is 2785/774. Are these dudes anything approaching spartan hoplites? They are around the same price (actually, the skirmishers are more), but a spartan hoplite is supposed to be a true elite - an "elite of the elite." And I don't even build those.

I think it's a shame this mod makes anything approaching a top tier soldier so outrageously priced that you'd be stupid to build one. In my KH campaign, I never built a spartan hoplite. Never. I'm even the richest faction in the game, but I refuse to build one. For the price, I can afford several units of the next soldier down in tier, so why would I? Can't ever think of a reason. So it takes away from the game and the fun, because I'd like to build some. They're spartan hoplites for Christ's sake - the guys we've read so much about in history, the guys who stood against all the persians at Thermopolaie (I know, misspelled), the guys who did this, the guys who did that. And the game is set up so that I'd be stupid to build them, so I don't build them.

It takes away from the game and the fun, in my opinion, when prices for fun units are so outrageous that you're actually being stupid to build one. I don't like being stupid, especially in a strategy game, so I guess part of the game (the funnest part) is inaccessible to me.

Anyway, thanks for the tips on how to get custom battles to work - much appreciated.