Yo, still working on this mod? Because I happen to be an expert in the Aegean Bronze Age.

I don't what's happened since 2010, this thread hasn't been updated in a while, maybe you've abandoned the project in the meantime. I don't know.

What I do know is if you do wish to include Minoan Crete as a faction, the year should probably be 1600 BC or so. At about this time the Mycenaean Koine was just beginning to develop Palace-type centers and Minoan culture was beginning to influence the Hellenic speakers, and the Minoans were most likely still under native dominion as opposed to possessing a Mycenaean elite. What the map should look like around this time, the Mycenaean factions should be confined to one or two initial provinces (maybe Mycenae has two, as it is suggested that Tiryns was under the dominion of Mycenae for a long while, but perhaps at 1600 BC Tiryns and Mycenae could start out as allies and later a government reform thingy could be implemented that brings Tiryns or Mycenae under your control depending on if you play as one of the two), while the Minoans start out controlling Crete, Thera, and perhaps Kythera as possible Minoan colonization if not influence has been found there in addition to Thera.

The Mycenaean factions might start out with little in the way of heavy troops or cultural buildings but what I would wish to see happen is a set of (voluntary) reforms that introduce Minoan concepts into the mainland, thus making available more building and troop options, similarly to how the Mycenaeans adopted many Minoan practices in real life. Of course, some buildings would be culturally specific, such as Tholos tombs (Public order bonus due to law?) and for the Minoans, mountain temple-shrines (public order bonus due to happiness?).

Anyway, hope you're still working on this and if not, best of luck in future modding endeavours.