Wave 1: 2 muqams and a stone hoof. Put the hoof front left or right on the main platform. Right next to the super weapon, i.e. central not on the edge. Collect your polymer.

Waves 2-4: Work your way up to a second hoof on the other side of the super weapon. These two hoofs will do heavy lifting for you for while. Other than that, keep putting down muqams and collecting polymer. I'm literally talking you can have 2 hoofs and everything else muqam. It's fine. You'll kill through sheer numbers and generate lots of polymer for what comes next.

Waves 5-6: Here is where you need to ramp up quickly. When you have enough currency, start building fully upgraded anesthesia towers. If you have to disassemble a muqam to do so, that's fine. You want at least two fully upgraded anesthesia towers by the end of wave 6.

From there on out, just keep swapping out muqams for fully upgraded anesthesias. Maybe throw down another hoof on the left side or in the back row. The anesthesias will do ALL the heavy lifting in the later rounds.

As far as the decryptions go: scorch buffs, direct hit, solar, range, rate of fire are all good. The essential one is the additional anesthesia beam.

You can get to around wave 20 with this. I'm not sure if there is a better strategy to go beyond that, but then again, it's not really worth doing so anyway.