Coming back to this game for the first time in years and years - can someone quickly remind me if there are any drawbacks or limitations to city spam?

its basically the same but with scifi

Hi, I'm playing without the DLCs, I'd like to know if this objective is somewhat fixed with the DLCs...Really frustrating they clamed to fix that one 5 years ago and that it's still broken thanks

came back to this the other day after a long while off, the loading time for the game is so painfully long

Over 250 hours in the game, still running into situations I've never seen before. Last night, up against my AI very hard opponent who allied with the Spacers and shows up with a few stacks of spacer units, I dismiss it as a non threat. There I am with my elite Assembly stacks - wreckers and the gatling gun dudes, and my heroes who are melee gods with tireless and first strike and 80% evasion with mods and defensive mode, etc, etc, plus tons and tons of snipers. The Spacer army is mostly the tier 1 melee ...