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because dwarf make much more money.

cause i wanted to try sumthin new lol it was either dwarf or halfer and i chose dwarf cause i havnt played them b4

Dwarfs do make more money, their gold mines produce more than the normal and with cave masters they even get more bonus. Their military science is cheaper and so their value and life span is longer.

Those are the reasons they are expensive. If you use those strong points well you can end up in the top list like last era. I don't see why anyone should complain about Dwarfs anymore really.

dropkick..

i have played dwarf before and they can be a lot of fun since zeta made some shanges to cavers.

initially you should run 50-60% hammers to cavers(though cavers take longer to produce) but run a lot of cavers( about half)...

caver 6/3 for 1000 and hammer 5/6 for 900 means for 1900 you get 11/9...much better than an axeman....get your axes later on when upkeep becomes more important but the cavers gets loads of plunder by destroying mines and this helps your economy a lot(plus the cities cavers park in make more coin too)...cavers are great on 50% worlds too as you get extra plunder from taking attacking those cities and also damage the enemies economy by destroying his mines which no other character can do...not hard to have a super strong dwarf army running around oop and mid era taking up huge gains and then parking in defence to try and hold i in late era and look for broken blockers to rush in and claim more. i played halfer last era but treated it like a dwarf and had a healthy 47 cities taken under my belt but as a dwarf i would have had more and a lot more coin. dont give up on em, dwarfs can be fun.