Upper left peninsula.

The head of the shovel-looking peninsula right at the bottom.

Crab Cape.

After establishing a landing site near the Crab's Cape (As you've taken to calling it...), you deploy your beachhead force of two engineers, two constructors, two tanks, a scanner, a repair unit, and a surveyor.













You begin the mundane tasks of setting your surveyor to automatic, to allow it to freely search the planet surface for valuable minerals and fuel, and establishing a storage site for raw materials, which should be complete in about two turns time.





Moving on, you quickly put your tanks, scanner, and repair unit into position at the only early stage vulnerable point, the land to your immediate west.



With that, you wait, and contemplate what to order your constructors to build first. A light units factory, a heavy units factory, an air units factory, a shipyard, or should they focus on establishing power stations, or habitats for colonists, to train infantry and infiltrators?

Barring a military approach, you quickly remind yourself, it is completely viable to establish eco-spheres to gain terraforming points. When the Concord return in 400 turns time to see who has won victory over the planet, these points can be used to gain favour with your sponsors, allowing them to 'evict' your opponents, should they have placed less empathizes on their own terraforming endeavors...

Decisions decisions, you muddle.

I say first we get some heavy units, so we can secure our end of the continent. Then we can think about colonists and whatnot.

Heavy Units Factory, seeing as we're the Heavy Units Clan.

You order your constructor to establish a heavy units plant. Even under accelerated build speeds at the cost of additional resources, the plant will not be ready to operate until 15 turns have passed.



You end the turn, and your engineer reports that the storage unit has been completed. You order it to build 2 more in a path north of your mining station, as well as supplying your secondary engineer with resources to establish another 2 storage units, for a total of 5. Your engineers are ordered to build at an accelerated pace, the 4 additional units will be ready in 2 turns.



You quickly check your Infodex on your current base structures.







You also inch your scanner and 1 tank forward to expand your detection range.



(At any time, feel free to use 'STATUS: X' to be updated on that particular item. I.E. In the coming turns, if you lose track and want to know how many turns are left in construction of that heavy units plant, or check up on the surveyor to see if we've found any viable mining expansion points.)

(P.S.: If you have any questions concerning game mechanics or unit specifics please inquire freely.)

Find more stuff to mine.

What Allstone said.

This. Tap new ore and make it a priority to focus on the economy.

ATTACK!

After a few turns of milling about, your surveyor happens upon a find.



A 16 strong raw material deposit. Aside from being exactly what you needed, a 16 spot for any material is as profitable to mine as it gets. And who would you be to refuse a gift of providence?











Some time has passed, your Heavy Vehicle Plant is nearly complete. Coincidentally, it will be ready at the exact same time as your new mining station.



Which is good, because through the vigilant microphones of your forces, you hear erupting gunfire somewhere across the planet surface. It can only mean that your enemy has discovered a cache of abandoned Concord vehicles, and rather than take the time to train qualified personnel to commandeer them, he's taken to destroying them to prevent you from doing the same.

Your base of operations suddenly feels very devoid of protection. You look to your recently finished engineers...

Build heavy units and find more resources.

Shouldn't this be moved to the forum games section?

Place turrets at the "base" of the crab claw, where the two pincers meet.
Send out a vehicle to scout.