The barracks isn't necessary unless you are adding eagles.
After Aztec smushing on Arena exclusively for my past few Arena games, I'd have to say I agree, but at some point a second barracks needs to get added. If they go for a quick light cav push against you then you need a buffer against the push since you probably won't have too many monk upgrades by that point. I think there's quite a bit of nuance that I missed out on in the castle age transition that I missed in the video 11.
I'm really liking these build orders for quite specific strategies, it can be hard to find builds for some specific civs etc and it takes quite some tries to work out how to adapt a standard build by yourself.
Also it's nice to see some examples from someone with slightly more comparable execution to myself... watching hera BOs just makes me dizzy 11
Thanks man, the idea for the build orders was that since most of us aren't pros, its actually a bit difficult to look at civ bonuses and see how you should adjust your economy to take advantage of them, which vills you can use to wall etc so I wanted to make some vids to clear that up.
The yt thumbnails look really good btw
I think I might spend too much time on them so ty for the compliment