Tactician is no joke, I got game-overed by the first fight outside the tutorial.
Man, I have gotten like absolutely nowhere in the first 5 hours.
I spent ages in character creation, played through the tutorial, then decided my character portrait was bugging me ( female drow looked like a dude ), so restarted.
At that point I realized that my smooth brain had failed to notice the right hand side tabs when customizing appearance so lost another hour to fucking around with that. ( I did think it was weird they only had one hairstyle but still completely missed those tabs ).
At this point I decided that, fuck it, tactician or not, that tutorial demon is going down. This is... not as easy as it sounds ;p