Build lots of space in your stores, you will need it for storing the items you manufacture. I personally have 2/3 at every base. By the way, the 80 items limit is only for fighting equipment as I said, so keep enough space for that + all of the alloys/elerium you take from ships and also all of the other stuff that isn't weapons.
Your troops do not armour themselves up, though, you need to give them armour pre-battle (just go to the 'Armour' bit of your Skyranger or whatever and give it out).
There is a reason I like lasers in base defense and your last post showed it perfectly. Why waste all of that space with Heavy Plasma and HP Clips? I send those to bases I probably won't defend (like my first) or sell them pretty quicky.
For the limit, it's stuff in your base, so keep spares of good equipment. TfTD changed this though, so you can't pull that trick off any more. Oh, remember that a tank only counts as one item. Yes, that means if you made 79 tanks and kept one laser rifle in the base you could swamp the aliens with tanks (you must have a soldier in the base, the tanks CANNOT defend by themselves for some reason), although this would be a waste of millions.
I say that if a base is doing well keep 10 spare troops in it and arm them with Laser Rifles. Keep your Heavy Plasmas on the Skyranger, that way you won't waste equipment space on them on a base defense. Think about it, 1 Laser Rifle per soldier = 10 spaces (heavy lasers would do nicely as well). 1 Heavy Plasma + 3 clips as you have it = 40 spaces.
I'd rather have 70 spare, wouldn't you?
Oh and Juan Rayo, you should get yourself an account here, that would be good.
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