Any good Mods to try?

[Suicide Junkie]

Note that infantry are for defense...
For attacking, you will want some heavy tanks with the big guns so you get much better damage ratios.

The trick to winning ground combat is to blockade the planet and prevent the enemy from dropping relief troops while you flood the planet with reinforcements.

[Kevin Arisa]

Eclipse Mod was designed with tactical combat and hotseat\solo gameplay in mind. Planets are also considered very valuable in Eclipse, so it would be a waste to glass. You could give it a shot.

[Atrocities]

Its ok that people don't like the ship sets. The beauty of SEIV is that you can use whatever ship sets you want.