to me, the enemy behavior looks like it was designed with kiting in mind. ITs perfectly natural to sneak around on a new island and try to grab the resources you will need rather than to bash your head against the entrenched fortifications.

I try to keep my kiting quick and easy though. the worst one for me was finishing that levers and gears quest on montero. yuck.

Well, there's sneaking around, and then there trying to get units that are basically mobile to move via the long drawn out process of saving/loading a dozen or so times.

The latter is a bit on the nutso side (in my opinion).