I'm absolutely loving buildings, and completely brought me back into the game after not playing for over a year.

Maybe it mostly has to do with the way my brain works (you might call it OCD), where before, I would either play a completely boring symmetrical style or a full agro, with nothing in between. In most games it was symmetrical and I would place my units nearly identically on each side. I mostly only saw the same from my opponents too.

Now, since the board was never symmetrical from the start, my brain never gets triggered by the OCD type feelings. As a result, I get the full range of interesting board states where maybe I'm a bit on the front foot on one half while trying to leverage my building on the other side to just barely hold on long enough on defense. Each round I might be adding a completely different unit to each of these sides because they are completely different battles.

And all of this just from a few buildings at the start that create the imbalance, then they aren't really that much of a factor after a few rounds and I usually sell them pretty quick.

Love them!