So I'm starting in a game at lvl 12 and I've decided to be an artillerist artificer. Is there any particular race worth choosing for it when asi's aren't important? Aside from say the ones that have flying or yuan-ti pureblood.

Additionally, anyone got any multiclass experience with the class? I'm primarily playing it straight so any MCing would probably just be a dip, but not looking to do it just to grab heavy armor proficiency, more so for actual fun reasons or for anything that would be interesting mechanically.

We rolled for stats and this is the spread I pulled, 12 15 15 18 13 10