How do I recruit Kretan Archers?

[seienchin]

I refer you to the archery guide...

Archers are quite fun and effective if used right.

Damn it I am a EB veteran and I also played a pahvlan camapin all the way to egypt. But jesus the AI use of archers is just broken beyond believe.
The heavy duel type archers are really strong in multiplayer, but the Ai cant use them.
Anyway I also still refuse to think its possible to get 100 Arrows in your unprotected back and only 8 of 120 phalangitai die.
But anyway, for the Multiplayer Archers are good, for the single player:
The heaviest battles I had were against enemies not using archers at all. Seleuks with 6 units of cataphraktoi, 8 phalangitai and the rest thorakitai and the babylonian spearman is just way harder to beat, than an enemy with 6 phalangitai, 4 horse archers, 2 cataphraktoi and the rest a mix of archers and spearmen.
Oh by the way constructive thinking:
Reduce the range dramaticly and rise the deadliness.