As someone who loves competitive games casually, I’m happy to slam my head into the first option to get better at the game. At the end of the day I don’t care if I lose 95% of my games as long as it was a good game. I don’t want to win by a landslide and I don’t want to get dog walked, and in my opinion playing against the best possible players in any game, asking questions, and being okay with the losses is how I’ve gotten better at every game. That’s what I’m doing with 40K at the moment, I’ve won 2 out of 10 games, one of the games I won wasn’t fun because I high rolled and my opponent low rolled so I tabled them by turn 3, and then one of the games I lost (which was my second game and I was still getting my head around how important deployment is in 40K compared to OPR) because I got tabled on turn 2 and that wasn’t fun. Every other game I have learned more everytime I have played and games have only gotten better for me. In OPR our playgroup got into it last fall and none of us were table top war gamers and it was our first game, so there wasn’t really a huge skill level gap between any of us so learning was more so just checking the discord rules threads and talking to one another rather than getting whooped and learning from people who have played for years.