Battlestation: First Contact episode 1 tips and advice

I had a lot of fun doing a no fighters strategy. Reduce all marines and pilots to lowest amount, had 60 scientists all on energy for the most part, and engineering was almost entirely on weapons. Had all bolters until i got laser, built them one at a time across from eachother, had four lasers and two fixers before the end of the mission... and the boss was an absolute cakewalk. Lol