Did anybody else struggle with this (mini) mission?

I tried 5-6 times, but those stupid gits just keep suiciding against drowners and suchlike, and because one of those gits (devourer I think?) explodes on death, it's pretty darn hard to complete the mission without failing. After 5-6 attempts I simply gave up and moved on, despite the mission failing. When they are that fecking stupid, they deserve to die.

I always dislike missions like this in all games, because the AI is typically utterly moronic, and sadly this mission is no exception. Another such nightmare was in that parking garage mission in the first Mafia game. 90% of the difficulty is keeping your allies alive.

Use axii on the warriors. Head into the cave and quickly kill the 1st group. Use axii again ...

Interesting, wish I had thought about that at the time. Too late now. Thanks for the tip, though, I'll try that when/if I go for another playthrough.

Using Axii in combat has been more of an accident so far, but it happened to work really well against bears.