Reformed units and disbanding prestige

[robman]

After playing with "reform units" enabled ever since it became available, I just noticed (after losing more units at Kremenchug than I could afford to reform) that if you disband a previously destroyed unit (i.e., one with experience = 0), you are refunded the prestige for it, just as if it had experience > 0. In other words, if you disband the unit rather than reforming it, and buy a new one just like it, you get the same type of unit (without heroes) for free. Or, to think of it another way, it costs twice the normal cost to preserve your heroes by reforming the unit instead of disbanding it and buying another one just like it.

I have to admit that this really does feel like "cheating" to me, whereas the option to reform a destroyed unit (by paying the full cost) does not. Is there a way to disband one of these units without receiving prestige for it?

[boredatwork]

Just use the prestige cheat to subtract it's cost from your prestige pool.

[robman]

Just use the prestige cheat to subtract it's cost from your prestige pool.

I figured that was probably the only workaround. In the end, I just restarted the deployment phase and kept them, since surely I will need units of that sort in future scenarios, even if I can't buy them now. (The ones I originally disbanded had no heroes, hence there was no real reason to keep them.)

Moving forward, it might be worth plugging this loophole, especially if (as many of us would like) "reform units" becomes a standard option (like "supply" or "fog of war") in the game setup.