The Hunters' stats haven't been changed. If you want to build them in the first week, forget about the Dancers. If you really need wood, you can exchange ore for wood on the market. But overall, there's a real problem with city building now... even on veteran difficulty, you have to sacrifice something.
Thanks for the advice, I'll keep it in mind. And has anyone changed the stats of any of the Sylvan units? Snowball, are you aware of anything about an automatic map generator (like in the third part)?