Getting back into games.....need help

12 is a great starting location because of the forced bottle neck if you build a couple of farms to path everything through. Place your 3 ogres or knights there and hold them at the bottle neck so only 1 mob can get there at a time. It causes a good 3v1 and keeps your gold line safe.

11 is good for walling off and doing a good old fashioned lust rush. a couple of towers for defense should do you good. I'd try and sneak a peon out before you finish the wall off so you can get an expansion up and running at 9. I'd throw the majority of your rax's at 9 outside of the wall.

8 kinda blows...I'd try for relocation asap. Don't even build a hall there, just move straight to 6 or 9.