The former is almost 2.5x the price of the latter, and has a smaller unit. Take the Peltastai Makedonikoi and the more regular Peltastai. It's not a perfect comparison, because the elite can perform the role of "assault infantry" which few other units can. I'll illustrate the point by comparing some units who fit roughly in the same role. Talking of numbers, they're often smaller than normal units too.
It's still a numbers game a lot of the time past a certain minimum level of quality. Yet you aren't getting a lot more for your money, they may be significantly better in certain areas, but they rarely win a battle by themselves. Then there's the cost double or even triple a non-elite unit. If you retrain (I try not to), you've got the reverse logistics to get them back there. You can't recruit them in many places, meaning particular settlements become the sole place you can get them (bringing all the logistics of getting them to the rest of the army). Elites just seem to be a bad economy - and hardly worth it either. I must admit that with the number of migrated faction games I play, I often can't recruit them anyway, but I've never felt the loss.
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