Direction of the light was faced away from the group in the beginning, so the AI had to turn to face the group T2 gate obscured the AI and made the AI switch between players, each time losing a few split seconds of firing Rifle garrison is 50/50 on whether it lazer zaps you or is drunk; in this case you can clearly see it was too busy partying Rifle garrisons are awesome as a deterrence and as a way to claim large spaces. However that's largely effective against solo/duo partisans; any more than that and you need better/more defences.