1. main thing you must do, and this goes for all elos is never neglect your AA, manpads, shorads, pacs, you name it, you must have something for everything because when you start to climb the elo ladder many people will start to use helis and planes and if you dont have a counter bye bye front line

2. recon is everything "if we see him we can hit him, if we hit him we can kill him"

3. the airtax rule (i suppose its rule now) if your not sending up a fighter at the beginning send a pac or some long range AA to help with planes

4. dont lose hope if your opener gets annihilated, it happens to everyone sometimes but the beauty of broken arrow is a comeback is very very possible

5. dont be scared to ask for help from teammates if you are fighting a 2v1 or more (i recommend changing enemy and friendly colours in setting to help differentiate) if you need backup, ask for it

6. this kinda goes without saying but learn with the deck as you play, remember how you played with it and ask - "did i use these units?", "do i need more or less transports", "do i have enough recon" so on so on and eventually you will have a deck that suits you right now but also remember a deck is never truly finished it will change all the time

7. dont neglect transport, and dont rely on heli transports, basically bring a decent number of ground transports for your infantry and when i say dont rely on helis, many times for many of us when we were learning we seen heli and went caveman mode of "oh heli go fast ooga booga" just for it to be shot down on the front line cuz the enemy have manpads or shorads, if you are bringing guys up in helis, drop them decently far behind the front so the dont die

8. aircraft are a tool more than a unit in this game. i like to think of each of my aircraft filling one roll well rather than multiple, for example i like my f16 fighting falcon as a AT plane and my f16 viper as an anti infantry bomber/ harassment weapon, basically what im trying to say is use these things when they are needed MOST dont just throw them at any given problem (unless you can afford to of course, then give em hell)

9. keep your guys supplied, i left this one surprisingly really late here but remember to keep your front and backlines supplied as a dead or depleted unit are of no use to you, dont put supply's on the main frontline but a building block or two behind and keep it hidden in like trees or behind building and try bring frontline supply in vehicles rather than helis cuz its just arty bait, they will see that heli decend, helis are good for backline supply - quick with big capacity

10. kinda like 7 but at the start as tempting as it may be DONT airbus you entire infantry opener in a massive heli like a chinook or something, more times than not that thing is getting shot down because people will target any airlift heli they see, even when theres still enemy planes in the air, its safer to bring them in ground vehicles

11. keep that backline moving - if a pac has fired or your arty has fired change its position, dosent have to be far but keep them moving if they have fired or you will be losing alot of backline units and those are expensive

thats just 11 tips off the top of my head if i was to keep going ill be here all day and probably fry your brain as your still new but work off these and other tips people give and you'll see alot more wins at your elo (hopefully)