Barracks/1.03

Empire
The Barracks is the common infantry producing building for the Empire. It's a sturdy, fast to assemble building that doesn't take up too much space. All this makes them ideal for mass building and generally being the core buildings that make up the Empire's base. But by being a common building that produces only infantry causes their lack of researching capabilities to force the races's powerups onto other buildings to deal with, which results in slow researching progress without investing in multiple research specific buildings or another Palace for those Pikemen and Halberdiers upgrades.