Hey I had fun with this one. Although I tried several times with different strategies but could never beat the first level. Spamming attack buggies, spamming miners, focusing on tech upgrades and a balanced approach all seemed to get me into the same situation. Not enough resources and being overwhelmed with enemies. And the enemies resource graph always kept going straight up. Maybe I'm bad or maybe the difficulty needs to be toned down a little :)
I understand that the units are supposed to automated but it was frustrating that you couldn't get them to stay back and defend. Maybe a new unit could be introduced to fill this role.
Anyway to answer your questions:
How are the controls? Is everything easy to understand?
The controls were easy enough. I think the UI could be a little better. The buildings/units were always greyed out whether there were enough resources or not. Also the game was a bit laggy leading to an unresponsive feeling on mouse clicks.
Is the Scout already useful
I couldn't figure out what it was for.
Which platform do you use? Windows, Linux or Web?
I played on Linux. :)