The stock layers have all the merchants set to be pretty stupid AI-wise, so even if they shoot, they are poor shots. Add in the death ray deck gun, and there ya go.
Use RFB where the deck gun is more realistic, and it will be at least difficult to sink lone/unescorted merchies. Mess with the campaign so that some merchant crews are "competant" a few are "veteran" and a handful are "elite" and battle surface becomes a little more scary.
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