Naalu advice

Hey twilight imperium reddit. Soon I will be playing an 8 player game against some very good players. These players all have between 4 to 12 games until there belts and most of them have atleast 1 win. I just got all the codexs for ti4 and am very excited to try out the naalu. We've had players play naalu before, both before we acquired pok and after and both times it didn't go too well for them. Now with all their new components I'm excited to try them as they look really powerful now. I'm here to ask for any advice y'all can give me and any tips and tricks (particularly involving their new codex components), thank you!