Talk:Dwarves/@comment-24399163-20140220181954

one further advantage of a Bard is Diplomacy. the extra setup points can be used to man the starting towers with some Crossbows and elemental retinue units so you can build up your base in relative peace. but it's also powerful to bring 4-8 Smiths to put in mines right away. together with Wealth, this eases a lot of the resource problems. you'll be churning out units quite quickly and once you have 32 drunk dwarves on the map, there's not much that can stop you.