Indeed vfb, but Coobe, are you talking about EA Agartha or MA Agartha? True, I'd say neither are not good in early gameplay, but can grow up to be quite good.
EA have have trogdolytes, which are somewhat good in killing of indeps and human-sized opponents in masses, and all the earth readers can be used in quite a few ways (earth boots + earthpower -> blade wind for everyone). Access to e4 mages from the scratch (50% chance) is not bad either. And I guess you could go with some bless for those recruit anywhere ancient ones.
MA Agartha I haven't really played in MP so can't comment on that. And Single player I only play to gauge if I would like to play in MP or test out strategies for those that I've already chosen
Edit: Checked out MA, and it doesn't differ much from EA, trogdolytes are absent and mages are bit different, but recruit anywhere golem crafters can do the blade wind -thing without the boots straight away. Also the statues are not bad, enc0 troops with good prot. Slap them with weapons of sharpness/strength and the start hacking away pretty well, me guesses. And there are still those ancient ones, though recruitable only from cap...