Faction specific buildings:

[PseRamesses]

What faction specific building do you prefer and why? Personally I like Milans bank and the Byzantine Iconer´s studio.

[derfinsterling]

There are faction specific buildings?

Have played the English, Scottish, Portuguese, Russians and Moors so far, but didn't see any specific buildings...

[pevergreen]

Check the building trees. You will.

Naval Academies etc.

[Lorenzo_H]

Do the Spanish get any unique buildings?

[Quillan]

Plaza del Toro. Spanish and Portuguese only.

[dph948]

When playing as Egypt, I like Bimaristans in my cities that are popular crusade targets, so that retraining my units is a bit cheaper. As to other faction buildings, I only build them if I have the cash to spare.

[Snoil The Mighty]

Plaza del Toro. Spanish and Portuguese only.


Spain also gets academies, which is nice

[Quillan]

A lot more factions get academies than get the bullrings. I think all of the western European factions get academies except perhaps Scotland. England and France do, I think Portugal does and the Holy Roman Empire also, if I'm not mistaken.

Most of the "unique" buildings aren't, but they are restricted to a small number of factions. The ikoner's studios are only for the orthodox factions. The three Muslim factions get racetracks. Milan and Venice get the banks. HRE gets printing presses. I forget what France gets.

[Snoil The Mighty]

As an addendum, my favorite faction-specific build would be the racetracks. Even though I don't play the muslim factions much, I love capturing cities with racetracks. It's also nice when taking muslim cities to get ones with the caravan/caravansary upgrades. Others I favor a lot are those merchant banks-wonderful boosters they are! and the military/naval academies.

[PseRamesses]

The most useless IMO has to be the Sicilian artist´s studio, +5% happiness - bah!

[germanpeon]

Dont forget the useful retinues that come with the Artist Studio.

[General Zhukov]

Most definitely the Byzantine sanitation structures: Baths and Aqueduct. Far, far below the average flavor building cost, for a hefty boost to public health and pop growth. Also a decent chance of picking up the Healthy trait line for every turn in the city.