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				The Tartarians are easily more powerful due to the number of available item slots and they already arrive with magic paths when not feebleminded. 
			
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 Well the wizard thing is certainly true, but you can also be successfull by just fighting in melee. And Tartarians need to buy a lot of equipment just to get equal with the Tarasque.
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				It's easy for Tartarians to avoid future afflictions using a single regeneration item and a single luck item. 
			
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 Well, my Tartarian had even more and it didn't help. However with gift of health it looks a bit different...
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				Actually a single or dual astral empowerment makes it very vunerable to mind duel. Not too much of a problem in SP games, but definitely an achilles heel in MP games. 
			
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 Can't comment on that since the spell doesn't exist in the manual.
But since everyone seems to be complaining, you've probably a point...