Tactical advice for Tarnor in the Sewers Options

[sturmvogel]

Having struggled mightily with Mencar Pebblecrusher's party (none of Keldorn's 3 Dispel Magics dropped Sorcerous Amon's protections (thank ghod for Emotion!)) I'm a bit concerned about trying to deal with Tarnor's crowd, which has always been more of a struggle for me in the regular game since I've never been a very tactically elegant player.
I gather than my normal tactic of invisibly sneaking up and letting off a double cloudkill has been deprecated by Sikret and would like some advice for my 1.2 million XP party consisting of:

Me R/C
Keldorn
Jahiera
Yoshio
Xan F/M
Kelsey

[Sikret]

I'm so glad to see that most of you (rbeverjr, luan, ...) are now enjoying the difficult battles of IA. Some of you were initially just a little bit worried about the difficulty of battles, but now from the successive reports of your triumphs, I gather that everything is going fine. And of course, the satisfaction of winning a difficult battle is greater than an easy one (not to mention the items you find and the XP you gain. In addition to the XP your characters gain, you -as the player- also gain tactical experience as some of you have mentioned before). I assure you that you will not enjoy playing the game with a lower level of difficulty any more. Welcome to the circle of tacticians!



PS: By the way, I forgot to ask you, rbeverjr! What was the first item you forged? I remember that a while ago, you wrote that you finally managed to forge your first improved item in the game.