just went back to try again and i'm still getting creamed on the tutorial :/ played two more times, and both times i felt like i got overwhelmed by insects back at my home base before i had time to construct any of the rail gun buggies. on my last attempt (for now) i tried cheesing it by building a ton of the harvester buggies first, and then tried building extra bases just as a distraction for the insects. but they still got to my home base and destroyed it, making it pointless to continue
i'm trying to figure out how i can deal with this better. maybe building more stuff further out from base so it takes the insects longer to even get in the starting area? i feel like with a few more construction buggies, i could spread out a little quicker. but it still feels frustrating for a tutorial level (especially when i have to go through the beginning stuff again every time, when i feel like i have a handle on that already)
i still really like this game, and i might just jump into the ai levels instead of trying the tutorial again. but i wanted to share my experience here at least. a limit on how many enemies can spawn at a time during certain stages of the tutorial might be nice. that way i can learn how to take on the bugs at all before i have to face a horde of them