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>2.) Players have trouble wrapping their head around the fact that you get only one unpenalized "action" in combat, and that a lot of things other games take for granted (e.g., readying a weapon) also cost an "action"
This has honestly been the hardest thing for me to get them to accept. Every turn of every combat, P3 will try to pull off multiple high difficulty actions per turn (e.g., "I sprint toward the closest guy, grapple him, pick him up, then throw him at the other nearest guy" or "I take a shot at a guy from 100 yards away (without aiming)"), and gets disheartened when I explain how this would require multiple turns or give huge penalties to pull off.
I recommended that PCs use All-Out Attack or Extra Effort, or take Extra Attack, TBaM/WM, or techniques if they want to do this sort of thing. But they almost never use All-Out Attack or Extra Effort, even when they outnumber their foes or have time to rest, and I'm not sure why. P1 took Extra Attack 2, but I still need to keep reminding him that his extra actions can only be used for attacks, and that movement and readying aren't free. P2 and P3 didn't take WM until last session after much explaining and convincing.
I also tried to show how the limited action economy can work to their advantage since enemies follow the same rules. For instance, an enemy grenadier took four turns to ready, arm, aim, and throw a grenade at the party, which gave them ample time to react by getting out of the way or shooting him. When I tried to run a similar encounter in D&D, it resulted in a TPK, because nobody had any chance to react. But I'm not sure if they're convinced yet.

Note: All the players have their own digital copy of the rules that they can open at any time. So it's not as if we all share one book. I've even highlighted the most important sections of the rules that players should know about (like the first section for Success Rolls and the first Combat chapter), but I don't think anyone has read them.

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