Equip both with crossbows, get high ground, use pin down ...
Never had a chance, two or three rounds top.
This has been my go-to solution for almost everything, all the time, at least at the start of combat. Maybe it's heavy metagaming, knowing exactly how and where every encounter begins, but I feel like it's trivial to snipe out 25~50% of the opposition in a couple rounds before taking any damage (aside from the Gith party).
