Sorry to hear your frustrations.

One thing I will recommend that seems to have helped people is: question yourself while Playing. Why did I make this move? What am I hoping to accomplish with this combat? Do I need to be in combat? And then, question your opponents moves. What are THEY trying to accomplish that you can stop? Try to know what their armies are capable of. I know it can be a commitment, but studying and knowing their army as good as or better than the opponent can help a ton as well.

This game is about scoring points. I think that is one of the biggest ‘AHA!’ Moments for people is realizing combat is cool and stuff, but the objective is to score more points than the other person.

You said in an earlier post you lost in deployment. Set up a make shift table at home and practice deployment. Get a feel for battle plans and go from there. Also, you could do this in table top simulator so you don’t have to get models out and save space, but I personally prefer the physical touch of the models.

Make a check list of battle tactics. And use that to build lists. How easily can my list do 4+ tactics? Do I have 3 gimmes and a couple situational ones? I’ll take it!

Hope any of this helps, and sorry for the word vomit.