I consider the dwarves a bit like scotland, but more heavy infantry to go with some decent pikeman, and some excellent crossbows which decimate the light enemy hordes. Now this report may be biased, as i was fighting mainly goblins, a little mordor, and some rhun, but I found that even armies with cavalry couldn't break my line. trolls are a 'problem', but it isn't insurmountable. Dwarfish units are slow, but god help you if you don't outmaneuver them they will take multiple waves of your units and laugh. To give you an idea of how tough dwarves are, their peasant unit equivalent the dwarfish miners has a defense of ten. I have routed two full stacks give or take of goblin mid-game units (only one unit of trolls), with a slightly less than full-strength stack with 1 general. you can hire dale cavalry down by erebor way and if you do so, you'll only need one or two units per stack.ĭwarfish units are made up exclusively of badass motherfuckers who don't die. I actually have been playing exclusively with teh dwarves.
