[Shovah32]

You really have to love tartarians with great picks.
If you can get a D3F2 tartarian with either A2 or S2(+skullcap) then you can have a raiding soul vortex/phoenix pyre which, to a certain extent, gets rid of the problem DrP mentioned(being unkillable to being killed too much) because not every enemy force will be 'really serious opposition', atleast to your phoenix pyre guy, but sometimes an unexpected problem will come up and he will die - and then explode and reappear elsewhere on the battlefield.

He will stick get a load of afflictions if he does die, but the phoenix pyre is often more life insurance than anything else.