This has the potential to be an awesome mod!!! All of those involved in the making of this did an amazing job and I congradulate you.

I must say however I'm also not a big fan of the long build times. For me it's not the fact that it takes 5 years to build such a large building, but when you now have 20 turns to get there, it just seems to drag. For instance I just tried playing as the Yuezhi. You start out with a town able to recruit archers. You also get about 1/2 a stack of combined units up north of this town. I took that army and captured a town north of my original town. I found that town had no recruiting ability. So at my original town, I start building barracks to give me infantry(takes 5ish turns), while at my new town I start to upgrade the settlement(8ish turns). So I'm sitting there clicking the hourglass with nothing else to do. My barracks get built and I can then build another upgrade to get horse archers(another 8ish turns!). I clicked the hourglass a few more times but quikly lost interest and quit. I'd be willing to sacrifice the 4 turns per year for a quicker build time.

Now as Rome this wasn't such a problem because I already had some starting units to choose from. But if you want to play as a more underdeveloped faction, IMO you have a lot of boring clicking and waiting to look forward to.

This isn't meant to put down anyones work. But this is my 1st impression of it. I know you went for realism, which is done amazing well but it is a game after all and sometimes you gotta bend the rules a bit to make the fun factor go up. Like I said, this is an awesome mod and I will probably play this from now on and look forward to the updates. But trying to play for an underdeveloped faction as of now is very time consuming and uneventful. 1 suggestion, if I may, is maybe make building times less for the more "barbaric" faction. Barracks and training grounds for the Yuezhi probably aren't going to be as elaborite and well built as the romans for instance. Maybe some balance along those lines would help? Anyways, just wanted to say thanks for the great mod and I look forward to playing the other factions.