I could be wrong but as my understanding of the unit stats goes, individual elite soldiers get more HP than entire companies and have an equal ability to win in a group of the same economic cost. I only ever build companies now to avoid the interface for units where you have to click on every individual unit. It seems that for 1000 gildars and 350 hammers I should get a powerhouse of health and attack.
Is this just a machination of the limited build we are using?
Will this make more sense when we have magic and other things that make a company more powerful?
Am I reading the stats wrong?