hints for a n00b? plz?

Perhaps if you could be a *little* more specific.

You mean for playing Multiplayer matches

 

Well, I'd make it the cardinal rule to confuse my advesary.

Never let him/her see the full extend of your fleets, the location of your personell, which means keep moving them around.

You can also make feints, like attacking in a predictable pattern with a single ship, or a very weak fleet and when you think your counterpart will await you with a big fleet, you just jump in with bigger fleet, that you kept waiting nearby, instead of entering with the small one.

Another thing, that TK suggested a while ago is also something I think will work very fine: rename your ships, so that they will have higher numbers, i.e. StarDestroyer 36, instead of 5. That'll make the other wonder, where the other 31 ISDs are at the moment ...