Greetings,
At this point, what could be for you a very good fighting team.
Jack seems to be fine
110+ hp and pretty nice stats at the start.
Ansel is under 100 hp and his stats are ok.
The charactere HEMMEL can be found quite early and is generally not bad stats wise.
Perhaps more slaves and less mercenary?
Einor Corso is not cheap.
Then there is Ayden or the other mercenary in stokke hills who cost 350/day.
I'm not looking for the perfect choice.. this is the good part of this game. Everything seems to work more or less.
Or perhaps starting with a team and pushing their stats at the maximum without taking any new NPC on the road?
Good thing I told you Ansel and Bud where the bottom of the barrel and to avoid wasting time on them :x
There are characters I've been systematically getting as the core of my teams every playthrough and they never disapoint, here's my usual team.
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: I never play without him, he's either the guard captain if I have need of another character, but most of the time is always by my side.
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: My quartermistress with stealth armor, fallow me everywhere.
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: alternative to Truls, either captain or fallower.
you enslave them, so now you have a very strong core team that need to train sleep shit and fuck with you at all time.
now for the NWO and the assault of the palace you have not much choices, Aria is a mandatory character so having her with you is a necessary pain in the rectum. so what I do then is leave Truls at home, and bring both
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along side Kelly and that's basically the strongest possible team you can get for that mission.
as an honorary mention, my other go-to guys that I get every early game are also
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that are all cheap and decent fighters enough to tag along the entire game, and recycle later as barman for Doyle, foreman for Jack (after quite a lot of training I'll admit).
with the exception of Ayden and Clea, all the characters I've named can and will carry you early game for very minimal investment in time, and with a little gear you have a great fighting force for less than a hundred bucks a day.