Achontopuli early

[Hydra82]

Hey I love this mod but one thing I dont like is how the archontopuli is soo high up in the advanced city barrack. Building all those barracks takes nearly forever and once you get them, their so outdated so its pointless. Is there a way of making them avalaible in a less advanced barrack.

[Waffen9999]

I suppose in a way similar to Mailed Foot Knights. You can only get them in a Fortress. The time it takes to actually get a fortress before 1220 almost ensures you never see them. Why they're not available the smae time as Mailed Knights, ie. in a Castle is beyond me. Simliar thing with Feudal Knights when they come about.

[ksenagos]

Hey I love this mod but one thing I dont like is how the archontopuli is soo high up in the advanced city barrack. Building all those barracks takes nearly forever and once you get them, their so outdated so its pointless. Is there a way of making them avalaible in a less advanced barrack.

They are low cost militia...with exceptional stats(for their rank).I believe that they are never outdated but if you want to make them available earlier you can do this:
Open the EDB(export_dexr_buildings located in the SS/data folder)
Search for the militia barracks line.In this section scroll down.You will see at some point this (or you can just type archo in the search bar)
recruit_pool "Archontopoulai" 0 0.1 0.4 0 requires factions { byzantium, }

change the bold numbers to 1 or 2 and now you will be able to recruit archontopoulai in large cities with a militia barracks.They will have a replenish rate of 0.1 and a maximum pool number of 1 or 2(your choice)

later when you level up your settlement these will change automatically.

Keep a copy of the original EDB just in case