Hawk52: Well now I really feel like an idiot. :(
I had my first real hard battle on Tactician with the archers & Explodoskeletons near Cyseal. Mostly just because I was careless and I didn't expect the archers to have so much AOE. Second time I just used firespells to blow the Explodos up before we even had a fight by going around the otherside.
I'm thinking of rolling a new game. Not because I'm having a hard time but because I'm kind of bored of the party. I'm doing Sword & Board tank and Fire/Water Mage which is a pretty strong combination. I also ave Jahan and Madora for NPC's. But it's basically the same exact thing I did with DOS originally (I stopped playing when I heard of EE). So while it works and it works well, it's just not very interesting.
Kind of want to try out more hybrid builds like a front line Rogue or a Battlemage type build. Something that changes up how the game plays a little. I just don't want to struggle throughout the game just to have a novel party though.
Archers can at least blow things up with fire arrows whenever you absolutely need fire now. You could also give an appropriate wand to a non-pyro mage. It really does feel like the obvious thing is to just have one Pyro on your team, though.