[Renojustin]

You should really check out some tactics in the Strategy Guide (stickied in the main forum here) and try them out in Single Player for a week or two before you head into a Multiplayer game.

The reason for that is that you might be stuck with your initial choices for months as the game goes on, and you find out you made some choices that pretty much killed your game for you before you even started.

And you want to give the players around you the best challenge you can! It's no fun for everyone else when one person is able to rush you and take you out, thus adding to their power while everyone else is busy fighting even matches.

Good luck and welcome!