Thor all-dwarfs strategy focusing on the armor bonus

No matter what God you are using, you should remember what bonuses your God has, and try to use this in the best possible way. Thor gives you the following bonuses:

• special armory available in all ages
• dwarwes gather food and wood faster ( in addition to gold )
• dwarves cheaper

In addition, you start with the "dwarven-mine"-power.

This strategy will focus on the armor bonus. This bonus gives the player the ability to upgrade armor that with other Gods belong to the next age.
How can you take advantage of this ?

Doing fast times with low economy is NOT the answer. Instead, you need to do slower times, so you have more resources when you level up. By doing this, you will be able to upgrade essential armor, as well as having a big army.

I will not get in depth on exactly how to execute this strategy. First of all, the game is pretty new and the playstyles are changing all the time. Unlike earlier age-games, AoM has very unique "civilisations". Because of this you have to be better at improvising and adapting to how your opponent plays. In other words you can't follow a prewritten plan when playing this strategy ( or any other ), but try keeping a few of the following points in your mind:

• Take advantage of Thor's dwarf-bonus. This means you should make dwarfs only, and put the first 6-7 on gold.
• Level up a little later than normal. Pop 24 ~ should be ok.
• Since you're going for a stronger economy, you should also do economy-upgrades. Wood and gold while leveling up, and farms in early classic.
• Upgrade the correct armor.
• Ulfsarks and throwing axemen are very often a good combination, and work well with your economy since you're using a little bit of every resource.