I've found the actual fight immersion breaking as well. The paladin and her fighters are coded to remain in place, while your party is supposed to run around killing the alchemists. Imagine a battle scene in a movie where the side characters are standing still, not even daring to take two steps to stop an enemy from destroying their defenses, because they all wait for the main character to arrive and do the job. And the leader is supposed to be a paladin?
That was a strange experience, yes. I also expected the paladin´s wife to show up, by the way. But my in-game explanation was that the paladin employed a military tactic of holding a solid line of defence at a chokehold, no matter what happens. It is a tactic that can easily be attributed to a paladin´s conservative, inflexible and narrow-minded mentality. But it would have been nice of her to inform us of her battle plan!
