Oh, yeah that scheme will probably work way better for me as well, thanks for thinking about it! I got used after some time to just press the corresponding buttons, but that would make it way easier.
I decided to ignore chicken for the sole reason as it didn’t look too good stats-wise. I wish there were a hint in the start saying that chicken is useful beyond combat. And I went to kill those robots as a test for EMP grenade effectiveness as well.