I hope everyone can see that the game plays really well now, with some very worthwhile GUI upgrades and lots more on the way.
Strategery-wise, I tend to go straight for laser rifle rather than armor, because 1) you pretty much need lasers to tackle cyberdisks, 2) laser pistols give you something quickly that is cheap and useful to manufacture, 3) armor takes quite a long time to manufacture per unit until you have lots of engineers, 4) armor works best with the Medikit which you also have to research and build and 5) armor requires resources which you just may run out of in the early game.