Lol!

I love Kretan Archers too. I never recruit them, just hire the mercenary ones, they are plentiful throughout the Eastern Mediterranean. First thing I do in a new KH campaign is hire a unit of Mercenary Kretan Archers, they have made the difference between survival and getting crushed by the Macedonians. They can devastate levy phalangites long before they reach your hoplite line - phalangites are very vulnerable when their sarissas are still raised upright.