Yes aracuan, comments like those wont do you any good. There are many modders and scenario makers here who rejoice when units like this one are released, we who like to give a good historical feel to civilization 3 want to have as many historical accurate units as we can, that means some times adding units to the game that are meant for just one or two civilizations, not caring if those units were seen in the real world for a time period longer than 10 or 1000 years, used in dozens or thousands.
And your reasoning is flawed, you say that we dont need another "hoplite" unit, how many ancient spear units are there in civ3? 3,4? What about modern infantry units? We have the Infantry, the Paratrooper and the Marine, with PTW we get the Guerrila too besides the WW2 era infantry, flame thrower, machine gunner and anti-tank basooka man
Simple maths, we actually have more modern infantry units than ancient spear infantry units.
Im working on a mod pack that goes from ancient to future times, have almost 300 units and still adding, guess there will only be a final version when Civ4 is released and I uninstall Civ3. Its just awesome playing with an European civ, reaching America in Caravels after you discover Astronomy, unload a few Arquebusiers, Knights or Conquistadors (spanish) and find a bunch of indians armed with spears, axes or clubs