Party questions (EO III, subclassing related)

So ah, hello. New here and hoping I found a community that is actually somewhat active. The simple way to start this off is thus: I just beat EOIV (loved it, haven’t beaten Hall of Darkness yet but imma take that slowly) and am looking to either start EOIII or V next.

I have a party set for V (Harbinger/Pugilist/Masurao/Necromancer/Botanist (or maybe Shaman?) Which ended up being rather hyper-offensive compared to my balanced-but-offensive party in IV (Landscnecht/Nightseeker/Fortress/Sniper/Runemaster linkspam mostly) But for III I am still having some issues.

So I suppose mostly this is me asking advice.

Before I begin: I am not a minmaxer in the traditional sense; I’m a roleplayer and writer at heart and character image and concept is important to me. That said, once I PICK my classes and such I’ll damn well work to make them the best they can be.

So my original party idea was Princess/Buccaneer/Hoplite/Arbalist/Monk. Which is pretty hyper-defensive compared to most of my other teams.

I know my team idea is not OPTIMAL, or the most efficient, which is fine: the only 100% needs are Princess Main, Buccaneer Main and Arbalist Main.

Princess: I know Monk/Princess is better at healing and support. I don’t care. She’s basically my ‘main character’ so she stays no matter what. Ideally I’d like for her to be a secondary attacker with /G or /B, but I have no concrete ideas.

Arbalist and Buccaneer: Honestly will be standard builds with likely /G, Bucc may go pistols as opposed to swords. These two are my primary damage so far. Arbalist may go /Z and play on the back line if my Buccaneer goes rapiers.

If I run a Monk as well she will be /P, which is also why i want to use my Princess as a secondary attacker/ect. Other than that Hoplite, Ninja, Wildling or Zodiac are all options for the last two slots. I really like Wildling’s concept, but have not heard great things, and Ninja also seems interesting enough to work with.

I do not know which route I will go as I want to play the game and find out, so I’m trying to not plan on 100% having a Shogun or somesuch. I don’t want to repeat main classes in my main party anyway, so I’ll not be double-shogun’ing. So basically not planning to run a WM party, I did linkspam in IV and I want something different this time.

In addition, is the EOV party feasible? Assume the necro will be tanking, Harbinger may go Deathguard but I was hoping for a Deathbringer/Barrage Brawler/Blade Dancer frontline with Necro providing tanking support and Botanist/Shaman providing heals and such.

Sorry for the wall’o’text, I can get wordy.