Favorite unit(s)

[caravel]

But that was at the cost of taxes going straight to them instead to the state, so it´s not too unfitting. Besides, it helps to limit the number of PKT in the field, which would otherwise lead to one-unit-type-armies (they´re THAT good. I fielded three units of them against three byzinf and one psiloi unit, and massacred the defenders to the last man, suffering only thirteen losses or so-althrough, truth to be said, using the increased maneuver of cavalry against such a small garrison would have been easy with any kind of heavy cavalry, but instead of charging straightfoward-like I´d have done with chivs- I peppered them beforehand.)
Another alternative would be lowering the support cost and raising both the training cost and training time (justifying it in-game, the time&money investment symbolizing convincing 40 members of the gentry to join your armed forces)

True enough. They are statistically much the same as the Pronoiarioi Kavallarioi, except for the charge (and the bows of course), I tried to design these two around filling the gap between the lighter cavalry and the Kataphraktoi. With these two cavalry types the Byzantine have many cavalries to fit every role, and carry them into the late era. I was still somewhat concerned about them being overpowered though, but had planned to counter this by toning down the command stars of the Byzantine royalty somewhat. Your idea of increasing the training time may have worked also, perhaps for Pronoiarioi, and Kataphraktoi. Training and support costs also needed a lot of tweaking to get them balanced. This would have come from player feedback.

Well, the mod fits rather well my concept of an "ideal" mod (as in altering the existing gameplay to make it more interesting as opposed to altering everything -XL is one mod I tried and didn´t like (and unfortunately deleted before I could think up looking into things I´d have liked to copy), and vanilla alone is rather tepid after trying your mod. Not that I have much time, as I have to keep up pharma, epidemiology, and general pathology, but when I do a TW, it´s with the Pocket Mod.

Sadly most of the contributors gave up and went back to XL/vanilla/whatever. This left me effectively posting and replying to myself. Kind of like shouting into an empty cave and hearing nothing but the echo. Faced with this situation I decided to give it up (as with countless other modding projects).

Sidenote: I don´t know what did you do with the "compound bow" projectile exactly, but Trebizond-trained Psiloi are MURDERERS. Not only they´re extremely effective in combined arms, but as single units they´re particularily
lethal as well. I moved one to çuell one of the infamous "siege weapons uprisings", and it managed to pull a shot as the rebels were running away, and still managed to kill 4 of the twelve crew. (It does lead to "historically accurate" armies composed mainly of bowmen, and it makes them be worth the extra support, but renders arbalesters a bit accessory, just for bridge battles and/or fencing off the first waves of the mongol invasion -which in my current game has opted to ignore me altogether-.

IIRC the compound bow is a slightly toned down longbow, I have never had the chance to test it out at all, as I'd stopped playing at that point. The Treb archers stats I hadn't tampered with, I'd only changed their physical appearance on the battlefield, renamed them as Psiloi and given them the compound bows. They've always been light skirmisher infantry (like Turcoman Foot or Futuwwa).