FF Tactics: War of the Lions

[Masquerade]

It's not level...trust me. My characters are almost TWICE the level of the opposing characters. It's just that my characters are slower. Even if I had two archers, they wouldn't be able to get a single shot off because the Assassins would have killed the girl I was supposed to protect by then. The party I'm using has 2 Dragoons (who are actually faster than the assassins now, but take too long for jump attacks), 1 Geomancer (good ranged geomancy skills, and my fastest character), and a Holy Knight that is completely kick ass, but my slowest character.

So, I leveled up some more. My characters actually got to ACT! I got some attacks in before one Assassin used Suffocate on the main character (Instant KO) and the dual wielding assassin sliced down the girl I was supposed to protect once again. The main problem is that she doesn't RUN AWAY and there's no way to tell her to. She just marches up to the assassins like she wants to die. There's no beating this level...