2. Not sure how to feel about joining individual characters into combat - this is related to stealth.
Let's assume that only 1 party member is starting combat, others are hiding - then we can easily join our party members one by one, by performing our most devastating attack on archers / mages / most difficult enemry.
Basically, we can do a free 3x round of attack if we do these tactics.
This is not new. I did this before patch. I ran a 4 rogue party.