Infantry - What Do You pick?

[runequester]

My current soviet campaign has:

2 companies of soviet infantry. I upgraded them to SVT rifles when they became available, and dual hand grenade slots. Weak against tanks but they do okay, and they are usually close to my armour anyways.
2 platoons of engineers originally, but I realized that I rarely use them for anything engineer'ish, so exchanged them for SMG troops to send around the flanks. I can always buy engineers as support if needed.
Then 4 units of scouts and 4 snipers. I absolutely love snipers. Very effective for pinning down an entire platoon in many cases.

I tend to focus on well equipped infantry but I rarely buy elite types, unless thats the focus of my campaign.

[Charles22]

Elite troops are at least interesting in that over a period of time you can find out if they make any significant difference. I have found out that the Brandenburgers having 2 LMG's can be quite devastating at times.

I don't know, but I think at least having some engineers in core is pretty essential, because for the early portions of the war they represent the only real infantry threat to anything resembling a medium tank. Of course if one gets them shot up all the time just fighting regular infantry, where they're generally weaker, having them in core probably won't matter too much.

[runequester]

Thats true, though I've been able to just stick around the tanks so far. Im a big fan of having the infantry stack in the same hex, as it seems to make a lot of fire bounce off the tank.

Of course, I tend to get impetous, so I'll send a tank platoon off to do something, only to be blown up by hidden enemy infantry