Question about military race bonuses

GREETINGS FROM AMILDIHR, HOME OF GETTING PASTED BY EVERYONE ELSE!

How bad is the dwarven military? Should I try to switch to another species? Can you even still do that?

Having read around all over the place, I have read that dorfs are posessed with some of the worst pips imaginable, and some terrible bonuses and bad debuffs. Which leads me to wonder about switching to another species for my military.

My main options are goblins, kobolds, torlls, orcs, humans, ogres, centaurs. (I like to RP Amildihr as trying to avoid some of the major mistakes from the past and being tolerant towards goblins and kobolds, though I'm horrifyingly anti-orc/ogre/troll)