I really thought slamming my way through Tactics Ogre would prep me for this. I'm only like eight hours in and already I have underlevelled characters I can't do anything with. I haven't even started messing with classes yet, please help. Save me, training battles.
Also why team size so small
EDIT: Why are black mages evil. Ranged lockon fire attack that kills you.
EDIT2: the best strat for black mages is kamakaze basically. They have a lot of range and can snap to targets freely, so running next to another enemy will result in their multi target fire killing one of their boys.
You're an adult who has played harder tactics RPGs, you'll be like Kong Ming compared to middle school aged me when I first played the game lol. It might just take you a minute to figure out the flow of gameplay in this one.
You could try just ganging up on them, they're quite squishy. Also good for early game is to have a female thief who can charm male units since most characters in the game are male.
I came back to this thread and it looks like you gotta be an old school Fire Emblem person since those games don't have random grinding like FFT lol. Sorry, I don't make the rules