a few fan questions

[TW-fanboy]

Hi,
firstly, I am a big fan of IB I and its submods (for me, IB I is on one list with RS II, EB and Fall of the Republic)
I don't really like any Total War game from med 2 upwards (Empire and Napoleon into the backside....), but I am thinking about reinstaling med 2 for this mod, and I have a few questions before installing it :
Do you use vanilla battle mode settlements, or did you remake them? The vanilla buildings would really destroy the atmosphere in sieges, so I would wait untill you change that.
Does this mod have those nice ancillary office system, i.e. is there a comes africae, a praefectus praetorio italiae etc:?
Anyway, I wish you the nerves and the time to finish this work, althoug I'd wish you would continue working on IB I...