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You'll get alot of opinions on what classes to play in wizardry.....and if you know the community....you'll know that there are lots of different styles.
From the sound of it...you have 2 valks?
I have a fighter, lord, thief, ranger, mage and bishop. If I did it again I probably would go fighter, lord, ninja, bard, bishop, bishop.
As far as formation.....some here have taught me to look out of the box. you have a formation that suppors 3 in front, 2 on each side, 3 in the center, 3 in the rear. One set that I have seen work wonders is putting none in the front three....and if you have 8 party members...put the casters in the back. I have found that when I had members in the front front...my casters in the center could get hit flanked and in the rear much easier then when I put my fighters back a rank.....it just seemed to protect them....as well as, it let the first 4 members in my party attack at close range.
Why bishops? Well.....I found that later in levels, my bishop had twice as many spell points as my pure caster did....with the same spells......they do get levels slower....but when my bishop had 2x the sp's...he was 2 levels lower than my mage. Its hard to train in all 4 spell realms...but with 2 bishops, you could focus on 2 or 3 for each bishop.
Most members here prefer the bard. There are lots of instruments in the game. You can get an npc bard to join later....but in Wizardry 8, NPC's have a way of leaving the party just when you need them. Also, bards can pick locks and disarm traps.
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