Yeah I play MoW and Call to Arms (same dev as MoW but it's set in modern time) I also play wargame red dragon these are my go to game before I discovered true war games haha.
Yeah a lot of time I lose in MoW because things are happening too fast and my men take damage real fast from a huge distance, too many times I get overwhelm and have no idea what to do and how to proceed before something else change. However, my experience today with the WE/GO system reminded me of another game call Frozen Synapse which allowed me to think carefully and analyze the situation before proceeding , undoubtedly this system helped me win today's game as I could afford to employ certain strategy and tactics on the battlefield in Black Sea. I always felt that I had a good sense of tactics but could rarely use it in most RTS because of the real time aspect and how fast things happen. After playing Arma 3 for sometime I got a sense of how real combat pace is like and how slow it can be which CM does model it so tremendously well.