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!
Then they should have coded her as able to move within a radius that covers this chokehold. This would have worked as a defense tactics. At the moment it doesn't, because she literally stands there if the attacker is out of her reach, even if they are very close. If the barricade is destroyed, there will be no chokehold to hold.
