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Cheech to answer your question yes. The reason I run no barracks is because the strategy is to over power the opponent rather than out attack them. The idea behind the over power strategy is keep the opponent from taking your land while you take their land. Verse the out attack strategy where whichever side can attack faster wins.
You won't overpower anyone without WT as your troops are going to get NSed and peasants kidnapped. You won't overpower anyone without hospitals as you're losses will be too great. If someone is able to attack more than you with their rax they will take more of your land as well as kill more of your defense, so rax are more critical than you make them out to be. I'll post my human/sage with a conventional build come tomorrow and you'll see what I'm talking about.