The Androids and the Mutants are both very usefull for their own purposes. The Mutants are obviously a top choice if you want any psy users in your team for it takes way too long for a normal human to get decent psy rating with normal training. Even the Mutants are not that strong when they start out. The workaround for this is to train them with psy at the very beginning and equip them with the Marsec body armor (the red flying armor) which will allow them to fly. As they kill Aliens, their stats will jump very fast especially in strenght and stamina. What I usually do is equip them with a Marsec beam weapon (the small pistol one, if I remember well it's yellow but I may be mistaken) in one hand and a psy emiter in the other. The Mutant first try to stun or panic the Aliens in range and then kill them. Obviously, they must be backed up by the rest of your team in the beginning.
For the Androids, what make them important in your team(s) (I usually build teams of 4, 1 Android and 3 human along with a special lone squad of 2 Mutants) is that they can take on a walking bomb at close range without dying, what your normal humans can't do. So, if you see a walking bomb getting close to your squad, pause the game up and send the Androids running toward the blue walking bomb while the rest of the squad retreat. If you are only a little lucky, you'll end up with the humans only slightly injured instead of instantly dead and the Android will still be at around 1/3 health.
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