[halfzware]

In defense of blitz - I think its absolutely the best way to learn. A long drawn out game spanning weeks where you're getting your *** kicked is no fun. Much better to play a 2 hour game and lose, then go over your lessions.

My big suggestions to anyone learning to play is:

Learn to make a good SC. Learn the useful buffs, and don't handycap yourself with one of the weaker forms (even with balance mods there is a large range). I always made wimpy pretenders in SP cuz it didn't matter, in MP its a diff story.

The acid test for your strategy is: by turn 10 can I have a good force in the field and enough flexability to handle raids?

Learn to be aggressive - in a 1v1 duel on nile the game will likely be decided by turn 20, with some early contact going at turn 7-13. In a ffa on urgana its not uncommon for skirmishes to begin on turn 5.

And finally, play QM - he will crush you so hard and so fast you won't have any option but learn to be decent, quick.