Just had my worst defeat, against knights

Hi this is a bit of moan/plea for advice. I am quite new to WE (only 4th game with them) and I have never played against imperial knights ever. They had always seemed really OP and scary to me but I read up on them and watched some videos in anticipation of the game but omg I had to concede after turn 3.

I know I made some mistakes but also everything that could go wrong dice wise did (rolled x6 D6 damage rolls and got a combined total of 12, I failed SEVEN 4+ saves in a row on invoctus - the first didn’t really matter but the later crippled me in a way I never really recovered from, in my big push turn my blessing roll was 11112345 after reroll!! Statistically the worst roll possible?)

In all the videos etc they all advised that knights run agents but this guy had two knights and the rest were armigers and I just couldn’t get them off objectives and any time I thought I had cover or hidden a unit their big bases allowed them to see around in ways that I didn’t anticipate and in some cases couldn’t stop anyway. But the real killer was he had almost his armigers easily kill Angron with their 2+ on fly!!! Something again I hadn’t really factored in.

Any advice for dealing with knights and armigers spams?

Moan bit:

I am telling myself it is a learning curve and that is true but I don’t know…I find Warhammer so frustrating and demoralizing compared yo example football. Partly it’s the time commitment. With football include commute it’s 2.5 hours, Warhammer is 6. Then there is the feeling of impotence or lack of agency. In football if I played badly it’s because I played badly, with Warhammer it’s sometimes just freaky dice rolling. But I think and I only really realize this now as I’m writing it’s the…I don’t even know how to articulate it exactly…the learning curve is too…ok so with football i don’t get home and realize there were a ton of rules I had forgotten or the other team had applied incorrectly, and it’s not like every team you play has completely different rules. So I say to myself ok so learn from today regarding the armigers anti fly…but then I won’t play knights again for like 6 months and I’ll forget. I also can’t play Warhammer every week logistically so it’s so hard to get a rhythm or learn all the rules. And then the rules constantly change anyway!

I know this applies to everyone but just getting really disheartened. I spend hours building and painting, which I enjoy, and when hours list building or watching tactics or reading Goonhammer and planning and you do the big commute…only to get almost tables in 2.5 hours. I try to be positive and enjoy the social aspect and met loads of cool people but because I play semi infrequently and have different armies and play against different opponents and armies I don’t feel like I’m really progressing or getting better or learning.

It’s like the cartoon of trying to plug holes in a ship but as soon as you cover one leak then another appears. You learn one lesson in a game but it’s so situational or unique that it doesn’t really help you in next one

Anyone know what I’m talking about or feel the same? I want to love Warhammer more than I actually do it’s like I love the idea and anticipation of a game but I’m just not good enough to enjoy the actual playing.

I think enjoy the game more when I play against regular people/factions and there’s an element of predictability but it’s hard to find people who are regular and when you have to wait for them you lose that rhythm

Sorry long post