Let's start at the very beginning. It's a very good place to start.
There is a saying in the Old School Renissance. "D&D is always right."
"The "D&D is always right" principle means that many times you're left wrestling with things that simply don't make sense or at least whose meaning is obscure. There are two ways to resolve the confusion. The simplest one is simply to assume that the original text must be "wrong," which is to say, that the author had no idea what he was talking about and that you can safely substitute your own preference in their place. The more difficult approach is to step back and assume the author actually intended something and that, simply because that something isn't immediately obvious, it isn't any less real. "
It's important to remember that any game, is primarily a game first. The X-Wing fighter in X-Wing miniatures is an abstraction of the fictional spaceship in game terms. We may think that the X-Wing should be capable of X, Y or Z, but you have to look at the ship from a game player perspective and ask, "What is the X-Wing capable of, in this game?" What stats and abilities did the designer assign to this ship? And will it perform the things I want it to do on the table top?
You may want to fly all X-Wings, and some players can do just that, but they are accepting the X-Wing for what it is, not what they wish it would be.
Feelings, nothing more than feelings.
It's ok to feel frustrated at a loss. It's ok to feel like you want to give up and do something else. It's ok to feel like the dice "cheated" you. It's ok to be impatient at getting better. You have my official permission.
But remember that those are feelings. Emotions. You may feel very differently after a good night's sleep. And I find that recognizing that emotions are fleeting helps me process them. I might feel like I'm not making any progress in improving my game, but my emotions may be wrong.
epiphany
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noun epiph·a·ny \i-ˈpi-fə-nē\
a (1) : a usually sudden manifestation or perception of the essential nature or meaning of something (2) : an intuitive grasp of reality through something (as an event) usually simple and striking (3) : an illuminating discovery, realization, or disclosure
b : a revealing scene or moment
You may get advice from other players that just doesn't work for you yet. They may have other experience that makes that advice work for them, that you lack. When you get such advice, file it away in your head for future reference. Keep working at other aspects of your game. Look for blogs and videos on tactics and strategy. Some blogger may have the knack for explaining a concept where you finally "get it". It may happen when you're playing and see a tactic work for you the first time. You might "get it" while falling asleep. Or in the shower.
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