So the dm just ran around and annoyed people by being tough to kill. Throwing a bit of healing his way to keep him off hard to kill makes it an action sink to get rid of him. Otherwise he didn't do loads, dropped a marker or two, but that was plenty. Totally worth it just as a distraction piece. Only got pine box off once, but i was never really in a position to use it effectively.
The domador is amazing. Ranged healing as a blast is superb. Being able to put lady j into combat and then keep her healed up while chipping away at enemies or burning through their hand to prevent the stat 6 decay going off is superb. Plus the occasional command corpse onto the dm or pale rider to get them moving faster, especially the pale rider turn one, so he can use ride with me on lady j from 2" in front of her rather than from the deployment line, so adds another few inches to her turn one threat range.
The model i'd be most likely to drop is the exorcist, depending on the opposition, specifically for a recruiter if they had models that buried themselves.