For me it looked just janky. You run into them, a few frames pass by and they just get shoved along while still in their last animation until their shield runs out. Then another few frames pass along without much happening until their health runs out. Suddenly they get into their dying animation and shoot away for a few frames until they go into moon level ragdoll physics. This got kinda old after 3 groups :P.
I take it then that you can't arm your dune buggy? /sigh