I dunno... I find it to be more fun to beat the game at Level 19 or so with my Fighter x3/White Mage Party than to stick a BB/Thief in there and have to power up an extra 10 levels just to keep all my characters alive.

And Bottled, I never said anything about putting BOTH a BB and a Thief in the party at once... that would be quite silly. Of course, I used to like Fighter/BB/WM/BM as my Party of Choice, but I've seen come to realize that BM are next to worthless (so I fill that party slot with a Fighter instead) and BB are totally usurped in every conceivable way by the Fighter (so I fill that party slot with a Fighter instead), and there you have it: the best Party, although some will argue a case for having a RM instead of a WM. I got one word for them: FADE/Holy. GGNOREKTHX.

P.S. How does having a Thief of BB add "stragety" to a Party? If anything, a BB is more singular in purpose than the fighter (no magic, AT ALL, EVER) and the Thief, as I said before, gets some Black Magic - but it doesn't count, really. You could have the Ninja cast LIT2, sure, but in MY Party I could have Fighter#2 use the Zues Gauntlet. Guess what? Both parties achieve the same results - except that next round, my Party will do more damage thanks to thier superior Weaponry and Attacks/round.