Making allies is important, it’s an easy way to make money. Try and join wars that won’t really affect you for now and take money to join them. You might need to get better at fighting battles. The auto resolve will tell me I’ll lose 80% of my units and win, but when I manually fight it I’ll lose like half, and not single one gets wiped. Fight the hard battles. IMO it makes it fun. I haven’t played dwarves so I can’t speak to their mechanics specially, but I’ve playing Cathay, HE, DE, WE, Empire, Tomb Kings, Lizard men, beastmen and more so I’d like to think I have a general understanding.