First of all. Konny, my hopes are with you on this, I agree in total with your stands on these issues .. - I belive, (and I will make that happen if EBs wont do it on EB 1.1) that regional barracks - are regional and should be in use for all no matter what faction to come along..

And yes, if we compare historic-and EB features at desc_start or at the Campaign start - we come to a fact that there are more then several buildings/walls/sewers/teathers/roads missing at the start of the game that are realy 'setback' in a way of gamplay..

Thaatu, sorry, but the game is simply made that way.. and if we look what Seleuc did after wining Lysimachus.. well .. he just forced his army right away to come at him to Macedon and even when Ptolomy son killed Seleuc in his tent the army came to fight for him in Macedon - that is 3 hand.. like, even Lysimachus forced them to fight at the first place.. So
we can say that every attacker is in practise forcing his army to fight.
So, even if (for example) Celts are to gain Athenai, they would use Hellenic regional units atleast as a part of their 'new' enlighten tough on military warfare for Greece.. The same goes for Casse in India or Hellenes in Spain..

Redmeth, What do you mean by the AI getting something for free? You mean the EBBS script? Or auto process_cq ?...

My point here is.. that, all buildings should have as much as posible mutual faction use.. Offcourse greeks are greeks and nomads are nomads, celts too,
But it is irational ussualy to have to build new regional barracks (for example) in a city that has 20000 population when it is gained from by Greeks from Greeks!
So, I will say shortly - At game start, there should have been more buildings already built (set in descr_start).. At least in Major Ancient centers.. By that pattern, main buildings (like Palaces and barrcks) should take much longer to construct (like in Docks values or x10), and mutual use of these (now rare buildings) by all factions should be wide! Exept some on barb-greek-roman directions.. When Romans and/or Greeks should not have the option to use barb barracks - but barb's could find more than they need to produce their own in Greek/Roman army barracks..

Sorry if this was to long..