Femboy Fantasy Tit Tacs
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.
It really does matter, even from the start. You'll see a bump in effectiveness if you switch over to having your highest brave units be squires, and it really matters that you're setting up your faith units to be casters later.
Will it let me soak up a basic fire spell without losing half my health bar? 35 damage fire, 28 damage arrows. Most of my units are like 45-50 health.
Lower faith will actually help you there. Faith determines magic damage given and taken. It's possible to abuse debuffs later to get to 0 faith and make yourself immune to magic. Ultima can't hurt you if you're shielded by a hard coat of materialism!
Hey yknow what fuck this game lol
Totally reasonable response.