Having never previously owned a droid squad I am a wee bit confused on how to use them in a hunt?

I have just picked them up and notice when you create a squad they are not able to join your party. This may be because they are on my ship and I am trying a few things during hyper.

Once I am surface side, see a creature or bandits I want to attack, how do I ensure the droids attack the target.

All advice greatly appreciated

Droids should be able to join your party like any NPC - I've done such with TT-8L Sentry droids. Make sure they aren't packaged via cargo crate :p

Just put them in your party like any NPC and they will fight. However, I'm not sure how well they will survive. There was a recent update to modify their hull values for combat, but since they don't auto repair and you need RMs to heal them up, they are currently significantly worse than just using NPCs really.

Yeah Droids are not worth the hunt, about 2 rounds and they are dead, with no way to heal them.

Unless you have droids with shields, and are vigilant about not letting them take Hull damage.

Thanks all.

Storage it is !!

Cheers