I recommend using the device that lets your unit not take any damage after attacking as long as it wins.

In my game I teched up and built up a moderate amount of good units all with this device (I forget the name) which completely stomped the (numerically far greater) opposition, generally with 100 ...

So I've just played through and won my first game, after restarting a couple of times.

I like the game - it was slow to get going but once I started fighting my first AI it picked up and had me gripped until I had nearly won and was just mopping up.

The good:

UI has largely good - simple to get ...