I haven't totally finished the game... got to the point where you split teams and ended up having to kill my game because Lyon's troupe wasn't powerful enough.
honestly I think it was a bad design decision to force you to break into three full teams. because up until that point you only really had one team that you spent all your money and time on. (for me it was prince, lyon, richard, zerase, the old runmaster guy, Jenane and Georg) then you split into three teams generally with four underpowered characters and two slightly better than the mob characters. and if you don't know what your getting into your screwed.
One of the two times I've given up on a fight and left it for another day. The first time was RIGHT BEFORE you got your stronghold against those two bosses in the waterworks.