In fact they were cheaper in real world. Training swordsman is way more expensive than training muskeeters.edrim wrote:Same like Musks (30 shields) compared to Swordsmans (40 shields), how it is possible to build better units cheaper then worse one.paavo wrote:And spies are definitely too cheap compared to diplos, both are 30 shields.
I read that muskeeters was not so popular because they were good unit - mukets sucked in accuracy a lot, was heavy etc... but you could train green peasant to be muskeeter in very short time, comparing to years needed to train archer or swordsman.