Newbie enjoying undead, looking for advice

[Aleph]

Would you recommend the turmoil/luck/growth 3 combo over order 3 for races that have reanimators? I generally do pretty well against indeps with a screen of soulless backed up by missle troops (and, in the case of MA Ermor, Vestals). I'm assuming that the reason Order 3 is better in the early game is in aiding early conquest, but that's precisely why I like playing with reanimators. Or is it more to do with needing to throw out multiple fortresses in the same time period?

On a related note - would you recommend Luck 3 as an addition to LA Ermor's weaponized Turmoil/Cold/Death/Sloth 3 dominion? I would think the free gems and free battle fodder would be good pickups for them, given their almost purely magical economy, but some small part of me likes the totally hostile to others approach of the Ermorian domain.

On a totally unrelated note - does Twiceborn cure afflictions and old age? I'm thinking of using LA Ermor with a Crone, tossing twiceborn on her, and then burning her out with a fever fetish, but the whole point is to get a decent combat pretender on the sly and if she's perm-crippled it's not worth it.