you know what has a larger range than every other weapon? guns. Gun's rely on physical attack, and but simply using the degenerator/re-level up trick, you can pull off 999 damage with a gunshot. Although you would have to consider that you wouldn't always hit, but you could have many more chances to attack before they got close. Combine that with Blade Grasp, you could get some very good combinations. Lower the faith to three and raise teh brave to 97. Give them Knight Skills, and they could try to break you from a pretty nice distance.

For anyone who desires to use Tiamats, I would throw Reis in the background to dragon tame them. Equip her with the Chantage (automatic re-raise/regen), which would leave her subject only to Orlandu and knights.