I think combining the ideas with the GMs saying how many groups are comfortable and then figuring out who would be in them OOC then having IC conversations to form them works best. It needs to get balanced and thanks to several people helping me out with my character revamp Anasil's combat potential is... kind of nuts potentially. Animate Dread Warrior and enough bodies lets me form a party of my own if needed, granted my allies aren't strong compared to other players, I feel like at some point I'll have to regulate moving them into the background as an environmental hazards or as just a backdrop like 'fight going on with mechanics while undead assault other non-important npcs in the background' with maybe a set number of 'X number of minions in the fight' and if one is destroyed another one appears in 1d4 rounds or something if they were brought as a large group.