tactics ogre question (snes/saturn/psx)

[Anonymous No.8790483]

Im playing through this game rightnow on snes and its fairly good however i cant find much info about something i have been asking myself for a while now. maybe anyone here can help

is it better to persuade enemy characters or level my own? I noticed to reach advanced classes i need to fullfill some requirments which means 30 kills for terror knight or stats, to reach these reqs i need to level up as lower classes such as soldier, knight etc and have therefore worse stats, the enemy high class troops i encounter all seem to be leveled up since lv 1 in their respective high class and a look at the stats shows me that they all have better stats overall than my units.

Is my theory true or is there another reason for that? Should i even bother leveling and not persuading high class enemies?