Sounds good. I'm considering to play Tactician but I'm not sure I will be able to master it. I did not try the first game. How much you had to optimize? Had all equipment to be the very best for example? Partly I like to choose items for the look.
I also wonder what Honour mode will be like.
While some builds obviously made Tactician mode easier it's far from required to run a specific party composition to get through it. The way you choose to approach the fights is much more important in my opinion.
Honour mode is just Tactician with one save file that autosaves each time a character dies. In DOS1 it was game over if both of your two source hunters died though I'm not sure how that specific part will play out in DOS2.
