It's true august 10th was very difficult. It's almost impossible to hold a plot big enough for odin to land on... as a result, what you need to do is mortar camp on the middle few islands while constantly keeping odin in the air until you have enough reactors to push out. It'll be at least 10-15 minutes in-game before you have a safe place to land.
I find good creeper rather useless for offense, but AMAZING for defense. Even a residual pool of good creeper can delay the bad's spread by a long time, and an area with a thin layer is almost immune from creeper drones and phantoms.
You can idle this game. Get auto click and a decent club. Go to the first lair level and keep the mouse on the middle of the screen. Go sleep or something.
To get the easy badge one only needs to click on a city and press the "nuke" button. It's a bit expensive, but you don't need to win the game to get the badge. Also note that you cannot use the nuke with an open government.