I am just gonna give you some tips that will really help out....I am not into that step by step strategy thing, cause there is no way you could do my strategy step by step, even if I explained or tried to explain it.

1. Ok if you are sure that the game is gonna be "no rush" (note: Make sure the rule is clear) then you should start out by getting a lot of probes. Then you will have a good mineral income for you buildings and units.

2. If you like to build ground units with a gateway, don't just build 1 gateway. I know most of you build more but I like to build about 6. That may seem wierd but I even build more in some cases. If you have sufficient minerals then you will like getting 6 units at a time. I woop all over people doing this.

3. One thing that people do wrong is they start out by building defense. I personally like to get all of my units maxed first...then go into defense, or you could just attack them and kill them. You won't get beet up doing this....as long as you can get your units pretty fast.

4. This may seem obveous but you should always keep making units or building buildings. Use your minerals, don't just let them build up. I have seen so many people mess up on this, they will go to attack someone and while they are over attacking they won't keep building units.

when I think so some more I will paste them.....:)