my barrack is at 37 now (yes only one), main hall at 34, newer fougt. i concider fighting unnecesery waiste of space, barracks, ampries, training grounds... you need min. 50 squeres...so...
And how much do you do? I run 6 armories, level 31 needles, all other military AW level 7 minimum, and before the change, I was able to make 12K points (check elvenstats) pretty much all auto-fighting. I complete the Spire every week. Oh, I did not even start halfling yet I have 370 provinces.
I really do not see compensating all these fights with catering resources...
And again, the orcs... the orcs...
Edit: Maybe I am missing an earlier post, but checking out your city, I see you can't massively carter neither. At least in Winyandor, but you make about 3-4K points, that's not a lot neither. You missed thousands and valuable KPs, and now... things got tougher hehe.