HARD BADGE
Start with hospital, big farm and laboratory(preservation 1st) „touching” your 4 starting quarters(capture ‘em asap), go for the one corner of the map (you might loose some territories in the middle, that’s okay)keep in your fort as little as possible survivors(~20%)if you lost too much survivors(due to fails like fort defend)press F5 on the news(it will allow you to turn back time and try again), do not be scared to take actions that requires ~20%danger(F5 will help you repair mistakes:)but send 2 people instead of one, even if it doesn't decrease danger
Tip for getting (hard) badge: Whatever bad happens to you in a day, you can quickly refresh (F5) so it will not happen. Maybe it's not realistic and fair, but this badge is actually INSANE not hard so we're even.
Save your file game somewhere in the computer, before important upgrade make sure to save, when you fail upgrade just reload your file by "manual load".