[Ming]

I just took a look at Hinnom vs. Niefel (inspired by Baalz's post). What struck me immediately is that Hinnom's starting army is roughly twice as strong (or at least would have cost about twice as much to recruit) as Niefel's! No wonder I have always found it worthwhile to gamble and sent Hinnom's starting army out on turn one (I use normal indie setting)! This is a very great advantage. Second, my inspection confirmed my suspicion that Hinnom's units do not seem to be particularly underpriced.

Based on the above I think

1. cutting Hinnom's starting army by half and

2. replacing its PD by 1 Horite per point from 1-19 and 0.5 Horite Champ + 0.5 Horite Hunter per point from 20+, as well as giving Qedesim as its additional leader at 20 instead of Kohen (Horites don't see much action otherwise as they are very expensive goldwise).

should be sufficient to cutting Hinnom down to size without changing its dynamics very much.