Why do I suck so bad?

Sinistar, on 11 October 2010 - 07:28 PM, said: Hey folks
I've been playing for about a week now. I read some of the sticky posts but I'm looking for some advice.
I decided to stick with russian tanks and have upgraded a few. I have the level 3 SU-26, and level 4 T-28 and SU-85B. I play one, it gets blown up, then I exit and play another.
I'm getting a bit frustrated now though, because it seems like I'm just terribly easy to kill. To the point where it's just not fun at all. For instance, I really want to get through my T-28 and get the heavy tank after it, I need 12k xp still and I average like 50-100 xp a game. My tank is usually in pieces within a minute or 2, and I think the tank has gotten about 3 kills so far. All of them were stolen from other guys on my team that already did all the work and I got the cheapy last hit. I have all the upgrades on it except the most powerful gun, but I don't expect that will make a difference. If I travel with a group, there's usually a heavy tank or 2 with me, and I'm taken out first. If I hang back and play "protect arty", I'm blown to bitz by someone I never even saw on my map. If I go after the light tanks, they drive circles around me and blow me to bits, even if I lock onto them.
I feel like in most cases I'm getting grouped up against really higher level tanks that can blow me away in 1 shot, like maybe the game match up system isn't very balanced? The most fun games I have been playing are when I use my newbie starter tank. It just seems like a chore to play anything else, and a game shouldn't be a chore. Do I just suck that bad? I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I try to be careful and pick my targets and all that stuff, it's just frustrating when you can't even stay in a game more than 2 minutes and all it takes is 1 hit to knock you out 9 times outta 10.