Originally Posted by Minscforlife
After finishing my first play-through on Balanced mode with a "balanced party" and gathering all the herbs, potions, elixir's, oils, etc. throughout the entire game, and not using any of them, I was looking forward to playing on Tactician whereby all of the above would become more "necessary" (or so I thought). The concept of playing Tactician was not for me to make a gimp party in order to need the consumables, but to make as strong a party as possible based on what I learned in my Balanced run.

Therefore, I made a party of 4 fighters: 3 X Great Weapon Masters and 1 X multi-class Archery F3/Evocation W9 for utility (with fighter stats but using
[/spoiler]Warped Headband of Intellect[spoiler]
for Intelligence/Spell modifier. I basically mowed down everything without breaking a sweat.

I was really sad at the end having once again no need for any consumables whatsoever. I think I used the haste potion on 2 fights just to see
[/spoiler]Ansur[spoiler]
and killed him before the 3rd companion's turn (they finished off the adds) and then the final fight but
[/spoiler]didn't call any allies at all and killed everything in phase 1 before entering the portal, just because I could![spoiler]
.

In the end, I'm in full agreement with the OP. I'm an old man and if I find this game too easy (with the exceptions of insanely bad rolls 5-6 times in a row) then I can't imagine what today's generation of gamers think. I was however surprised when I finished the Tact run a few days ago that only 1.1% have the achievement...

To be blunt I'm not surprised. This CAN be a relatively long game; last I checked only like 10 percent of people in general had the achievement for completing it. Also to get the tactician achievement, would you have to play the entire game on tactician? My first run, I started on balanced and bumped it up to tactician after the first few fights; don't know if that would get me the achievement.