I'm enjoying tactician. I never played DOS2 in classic mode (i only tested classes during the beta cause i didn't want spoilers), and i decided to go straight with tactician. I struggled a lot at the beginning cause at level 3 with no gear you can't do anything, but i liked that i had to avoid every fight trying to get exp and loot in some ways.
Everything changed after i managed to kill Kniles. And to manage to do that at level 4 with shit gear (i had only one decent char, my rogue had 2 lvl2 shivs) i had to know exaclty what positions to play, craft the correct arrows and food, abuse every combo of spells i had, etc.. I think that's tactician enough
After that i got lvl5, good loot and now i can play the swamp like a normal game. Also it feels so rewarding when you get good gear in this mode, cause it makes so much difference.