I get that he micromanaged it, but I micromanaged my rogues too, and skirmishers should beat a riot, right?

Dodge AI mod solves this by making reaver do this kind of micro always, but making rogue et al projectiles 2x faster - so they hit approx as often as against juking unitai reaver in base game. A manually microed one is still better than AI but it can't quite do this anymore.