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I've started the game many times, and finished it several times. I try to use different parties, but not incompetent ones (since i usually play ironman nowadays)
Some of my parties (note: i don't use RPCs, except in very specific parties):
'Standard': 3 melee guys (fighter, monk, samurai), 2 casters, and bard or ranger
'Simple Professions': Fighter, Thief, Bard (music only), Ranger (shooting only, no spells learned), priest, mage
'Brute force': 3 fighters + 1 bishop
'Pure Spellcasters': mage, alchemist, priset, psionic, + 1 bishop
(in hard settings, you need two casters with guardian angel/stone skin and such)
'Spellcasters': Fighter, mage, priest, alchemist, psionic
(this one was ironman. I needed the fighter to keep enemy fighters out of melee range)
'Rangestrike': Fighter (as tank), ranger, gadgeteer, bard (music + shooting), mage, bishop
'Hybrids only': Valkyrie, Samurai, Monk, Ninja
Several tries with this or similar parties, either melee-oriented, spell-oriented, or mixed. Most fun was the game where they all went for powercast first. Very hard start, but very strong at level 20+). All used short + extended weapons(polearm/mauler+DE, Giant Sword/Fang+ench.wakazashi, zatochi bo/hand&feet, throwing/hand&feet), and spells for range.
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