I really want to play this game, but I fucking suck at RTS's. 
 
It's really peculiar actually, because I love turn based strategy. When you speed it up a bit though, I just can't seem to stay focused on the battle as a whole. The last RTS I took a crack at, truly truly took a crack at, was Warcraft III and I never did any good at it because I could't keep track of all my fucking guys at once. Is there like a fucking Tab button or something I'm missing? Because that would be really cool. 
 
Part of the problem I had with the campaign is that it seemed like a lot of pointless trial and error. It felt as if the game expected me to know what the fuck was going to happen before I even started, then my base would be destroyed and I'd have to start over again, then this time I'd try to set up better defenses around my base but then I run out of time or some shit god damn it. 
 
I dunno. 
 
Someone tell me how to do RTS.

The trick is to buy Company of Heroes, build nothing but 1 machine gun crew and 15 mortar squads, and blow the FUCK out of everything. Then you're good at RTSs.

HE'S A WITCH!!!
 
EDIT:  But seriously, most RTSs allow you to create groups of units.  For example, in the original Starcraft you could select a group of any 12 units, hold ctrl+1, and from then on whenever you hit the 1 button you would select those units.  If you double-tapped 1 you would select those units and automatically pan to their location on the map.

Try to find people along your skill level. I was terrible at the original StarCraft, but I've got a lot of friends who are jumping into StarCraft 2 without any prior experience with the series.  Play with people of equal suck-age and you'll have fun, and you'll all progressively get better at the game together.

Just play E V O L V E S all the time insted.

Dont try and be excited for a game that isnt your kind of game. I recommend it because i love RTS games, but if you arent good at RTS games you most likely wont like it. But if you do get it i suggest playing through the singleplayer first, usually they pace it good enough for you to learn and eventually make your way up to the online. Even do skirmishes with computers until your comfortable managing your units. 

I think there is a pill for people who can't get hype.

Maybe you'll be lucky and this time and Starcraft will have difficulty modes with an Easy toggle. 
If not then you're fucked and you should  just go ahead and watch the cutscenes on youtube.

It's OK, you're just a subhuman.
 
I suck at RTS games too and even I'M planning to sink significant amounts of time into Starcraft 2.

I totally suck at StarCraft and maybe RTS in general (I turtle too much).
 
But you know what? I'm still getting it. >_>

" I think there is a pill for people who can't get hype. "

fuckin buy it. i dare you.

Most fans(me included) of RTS, suck at StarCraft, but it's a good game, and theres alot of fun to be had with it, it's really only the hardcore online matches that demand a high level of skill, and if your playing skirmishes on a setting above normal, but the rest of it is more forgiving. Also, with such a strong modding tool set for the game, just give it a few weeks and they're will be a ton of crazy fun mods that people just play for fun.

You could get years of fun with just the custom maps so I wouldn't worry about it too much if you suck at the RTS portion.

I bought the first Starcraft a couple years ago. I wasn't good at it then, and I'm not good at it now. Still, I'm gonna pickup Starcraft 2.

Isn't the new battle net supposed to be really good at matching you up with people of a similar skill level?  Maybe that will help. I'll probably give the multi-player a shot, but I'm checking it out largely for the single player stuff.

The new battle.net's matchmaking is really good from my experience.
 
I believe Blizzard said that looking at their game statistics in the beta, the only people that we losing too many of their games were those in the lowest 3% (who were losing 70% of their games). Once you get above that, your win/loss should be around 50/50, or at least until you get to the very top of the community.

"The trick is to buy Company of Heroes, build nothing but 1 machine gun crew and 15 mortar squads, and blow the FUCK out of everything. Then you're good at RTSs. "

The USM will change your mind.  There's something in there for everyone, plus the story should be okay...but if you already watched it on YouTube (like me), you know what to expect.  >.>

I'm not particularly hyped about it, either.