How do I deal with these fuckers? I'm getting back into the game after years away, wasn't ever very good at it. It's 3 tesserons with beam grasers, a cyclops with a beam repeater, and a few lancers.
I've got 9 adult colonists. 6 with devilstrand dusters + flak helmets, 3 with recon armor + shield belts + uranium maces.
I tried luring them away from the defoliator they're guarding by sending a guy down to take pot shots, but they wouldn't chase him even after he got some hits, so I can't funnel them into my killbox. As you can see from all the blast marks, literally every one of my 20ish mortar shots has missed the defoliator.
The combat in this game just doesn't click with me. I reload fights when I die because I always die to like tactical mistakes I can't quite put my finger on. I tried one raid three times; the first two times I lost the colony, the third time I had no deaths, all because I staged the fight around doorways as cover instead of going out to meet them in the field.
Is it just cover? I'm currently building a walls and barricades covered position just out of their range, but if they won't walk over to it it's pointless. Is there a damage threshold at which they chase you? Can I just pot shot them to death one at a time with a sniper rifle?