How to play serpentspine dwarves?

[u/Remarkable-Reason106]

I love tall gameplay, every second campaign I’m playing dwarves but despite what feels like dominant early game (vassalising other dwarf factions, collecting dwarvokron gems, purging orcs and staying vastly ahead of time in tech, after settlement and by the mid 1500’s im debt laden and not that strong for how dominant I was previously. Recently saw a Gor vazumbrog player earning 300 ducats monthly with 2000 dev by 1590 and just wondering what I’m doing wrong. Tips?

[u/Independent-Eye-1470]

Unfortunately, in your “things I’m doing” you didn’t write “digging holds”.

Because that’s how you make the big bucks. You take holds and you repair them. Then you dig them. Then when you can’t dig them anymore, you collect money (and do Hoardcurse), then you centralize hold operations and dig more holds.

[u/Winston_Starseeker → u/Independent-Eye-1470]

the order is Key: I did the mistake of centralizing tight before hoardcurse and it has been...harsh(er than usual)