Like my topic mentions, I'm about to buy JA2 after 11 years of never having played such a classic (I know, I should get lapidated for that!) but to redeem myself I am willing to make acquaintance with this little gem.
Therefore my question lies in the simplicity of this: should I start a new game as is, or install the more than famous 1.13 patch and play with that instead? I read it adds and changes quite a lot, so, as a newbie to this game (but not to the tactical strategy games, I've played X-Com quite a bit), will I get my ass handed to me in a plate of gold the minute I load the game for the first time, or not?
Cheers for helping me out and any tips are welcome! :)

Bummer, no running around imitating Rambo... :(

Unfortunatly not, you can imitate Robocop before he became a robot though ;)

Lmao, alright! :) Cheers mate, I'll give you news this weekend and tell you how much I fared against those pesky enemies!

Oh my fu*** god, this game is drug! :D Still exploring all the stuff you can do, but WOW! Why haven't I played that 10 years ago!? Was I stupid or just stupid!?

I felt that way with both this and X-com I missed out on both because I was too busy playing stuff like starcraft. The closet game I had to these ages ago was chaos gate which while fun isn't anywhere near as deep.