Meet the Awesome Squad

I'm going to play some solo games during the next few weeks in order to get a feel for a few things and to help get the old brain working.  I created a party of 6 guys, each with 7000 experience points (half of what Nigel has).   If something happens to Nigel, I can then just pull in one of them instead.  But, I worked up a bunch of guys that are the kind of guys I like to play.

I've put their character sheets on the Badlands wiki at this page:
http://www.lordsofhack.com/home/doku.php?id=the_awesome_squad

But here's a summary of the characters:

Lothar:  human, thief, level 4.  Decent stats, straight thief, should be very useful in a dungeon, we'll see.  I've always wanted to do a straight human thief, but have never done so in D&D.  I did a thief/fighter combo in Conan, and a bandit in Warhammer, but not a plain old D&D thief.
Waldahar, human, fighter, level 3:  by far the best ability scores of the whole party (an 18, 2 17's and a 16), I've never rolled that well in my life.  He's the leader-type and the beefcake rolled into one.  I've set him up to either be able to attack with a pole-axe or a sword/dagger combo.
Steve McNasty:  gnome, thief/illusionist level 3/2, another in a long series of gnome illusionists in my illustrious career.  I think the combo (along with the mage-thief) to be one of the best.
Tavish Hardrock:  human, bard, level 4;  I really want to see how a bard works in practice.  The bard class we're using is the 2nd edition bard, back-fitted to 1st edition (actually very similar to the original D&D bard from the early Dragon magazine)  its sort of a thief/fighter/mage with various bits of each nerfed, with some additional charm and legend lore powers.   We'll see how useful he is.
The Mighty Sword: human, gothi of Tiwaz, level 4:  rolled really crap for stats.  I originally was going to make him a Druid, but he has a 15 and a 12 as his 2 best stats, and as a druid, the 15 would have had to be Charisma.  Making him a gothi (I wanted all the characters to be neutral, so cleric was out) at least allowed him to have 3 cure light wounds.  I chose Tiwaz, so he'd get the +1 to hit and damage with a sword, which should make him of some use in combat.  He's really just the party wound healer.
Terrific Tiberio:  human, summoner, level 3:  I wante dto give Summoner another try, since my first one was killed horribly in a solo adventure.  I thought the party could use another member, and a dedicated caster to boot.  He should be at least as useful as Nigel is.