It's a short walkthrough. I'm not your mummy.
Clan Angrund is your existence now, beardling, Belegar Ironhammer and his ancestors your family.
(I played on very hard so this guide describes the situations I experienced.)

First GROW A BEARD.
Then get rid of the scum in your province, that should be very fast (since they are pretty weak).
Your army should hold ALL heroes at once atm.
If Tilea gets mad at you: Build some forifications at the bottom-most city to hold out.
They will beg for peace once your army arrives. Always remember the greenskins are your enemies. So let there be peace.



Techs: Tech the 2 Diplomacy Technologies as fast as possible



Grudges:
Since you will have to deal with a bunch of grudges, tech Public Order after that. You will also most likely need the Public Order Bony commandment.
Make sure to build one brewery(beer)/or any public order-increasing building in every province. AND dont mind the grudges anymore they are still in your heart, beardling.

What follows now are some battles around your provinces.
Save it and fortify your contracts with the neighbouring states.
So it should look like that.



Now Karak Norn will be crushed by Crooked Moon (in my case)
My dear brethren, I shall not forget nor shall I forgive.
Steel shall be my witness.



One by one get them, let them feel the cold touch of your steel and let vengeance be your guidance. Your ancestors combined with rangers as support are durable enough to fight against an army or even 2. ( The fewer men, the greater share of honour, as the lovely Shakespeare said).



Sometimes Orc armies will apear, never forget that your capital can endure being under siege for a while. Sometimes you're a dwarf, get over it.
Use this time and ensure that Crooked Moon is weak enough to crush the attacking scum at your capital.
Or just use the help of your allies, maybe the Border Princes or Tilea are strong enough and willing to join a war (if they have not already joined yet) against those filthy s**t briggs.

What follows is a long battle, use your allies to take down Crooked Moon with your combined forces. One of the woodelve factions did a bloody good job here. Elvish scum, but at least they are useful for something other then good looking. Slowly improve your army by adding elite units which can respawn instantly. Don't overestimate your heroes give them a rest from time to time so they can recover health.



Also your heroes can easily hold a gate attack and screw the defender with their pure hate and dwarven Steel. (Even works for Karak Eight Peaks combined with the elite units what.)



Since Crooked Moon is purged from the very face of the old world lets go on.

So, what do we have now ?
No more scum close to our borders.
B*****ds.

What we do now is fortifiy (again, yes. We are dwarves, what the hell did you expect?) our position.
I had an ongoing war with Karak Hirn.
As they declared war on me (and my 4000000000 allies) they got crushed within 10 rounds, I guess. I rebuilt the province, enslaving Karak Hirn as a punishment for even trying to mess with the incarnation of hatred. Since they couldn't even defend my province against ONE BEASTMAN TRIBE, I wipe their city and rebuilt it later.
Mention: TECH ANTI CORRUPTION, you will need it soon.

It's about time now.
The Grudge shall be eradicated and with them all those stinky, green, unworthy creatures.
Gather Belegar's army, travel to the once mighty underground and head for Karak Eight Peaks.
Attack it directly, destroy the gate and let your heroes do their duty alongside your elite dwarven units. (Use ladders to get your rangers on the wall while the Orcs are focused on your mighty ancestors) Use the HATE INCARNATE PACKS and throw them upon your enemies ears with a tow, row, row, row to the Dwarven Mineadiers.



Once you've captured it, they will once again feel the mighty wrath of the dwarves.
Since you have income like hell you can spawn army for army.
Greenskin for greenskin they will fall.
Don't forget to create a confederation with Karak Ziflin and so on.
The filthy Chaos traitors shouldn't be a problem since you should have the anti-corruption tech.
Maybe sack some undead scum if you want to?
Just let them all suffer.
Grrrrrrrrr


PLACEHOLDER FOR LATEGAME

1: Maintain a good bond with the Woodelves, never break alliance or they will get super mad and you're f*****

2: Stay calm when it comes to the Beastmen during the later stages of early game or they are going to burn your starting province (had to reload 5 turns back cause of that)

3: NEVER lose your ancestors (don't think they will come back?), 'cause they ARE the most brutal bearded sons of b****** that ever walked the world.

4. Keep your main army always on the march - they will have to beat a lot of armies and save your kingdom from invasions while occupying new territories.

5. Make a lot of saves - I had to jump back three times for around 3-4 turns each.
AND ALWAYS, ALWAYS: the fewer men, the greater the share of honour.



Not one of my best, but still okay. Your heroes should be enough for melee combat most of the time. That is, IF they are not weakened (like 0,00001% HP).

Buildings:
Well you need money, therefore toolmaker and trading post are your to go options.
Military?
Just some barracks and rangers in the beginnig.
You won't need more in the begining, since your Elite Army is doing the job.
Later on do whatever you want.
Just the standard heavy dwarven infantry, some rangers or quarellers, thunderers and badass artillery should do the job.
I used to build a lot of standard setups for capturing the Greenskin Areas around Karak eight Peaks as fast as possible.

Sure, if some trading stuff like fur, or even ressources like diamonds ( *heavy Dwarven breathing* ), can be built: build it.
In general, if there are special buildings (like trading Ressources or special buildings) build them, they will always be awesome.


Tactics:
Early Game: Let your heroes tank the damage and use your rangers and some artillery to shoot 'em.
Place the heroes far enough infront of your other units, so the enemy focuses them.
Maybe support with some melee units.

Later on you can still do it, but you will have a lot of elite melee units to support and you will surely need it.
For the "normal" armies: tank the dmg with the melee units, flank with rangers, as they have stalk.
You can also do this with the lovely thunderers.

Found some mistakes in the text?
Just let me know and they shall be purged.

Guide have to much curses and gets you offended ?
YOU'RE old enough get over it.