What is the best soviet infentry division?

[Pak0tac]

So the more i play, the more i see the importance of infentry and their universal support of the battlefield. My tanks, or artillary, or AT guns, are pretty much usless without infentry.
While im working on mastering MG implacments, i still have much work to do with my infentry.
A few games back i lost 6 flamethrower squads, to 4 regulars, not sure how it happened.
I also lost 3 KV1s and a command tank, to a single regular infentry, as the guy controlling it basically disable their weapons, so they were completley stealthy untill my tanks were like 5 meters away from them, a few panzerfusts later i lost all my tanks.

So i guess my question is
What stats to look for when picking infentry cards
what vhicles to give them, when and why
and what is the division that got the best (i guess the one with highest HP and univeral weapons) infentry?
cheers

[Pak0tac]

anyone?

[Brother Pedro]

I'd say 26th Infantry. Lots of anti-tank rifles on your regular squad, double flamer, some decent tank support, probably best artillery for Soviet as well as lots of air options.

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You want infantry with good equipment that make sense for their role. SMG squad with all SMG, great, they can bring all their firepower to bear at close range (same for double flamer). Guard DP, two MG and ATR, great, most of their firepower can be used at 750m and ATR can disrupt tank and kill light vehicles. Tank desant troops, again all SMG and can throw their own smoke to get out of bad position and close in.

I personally dislike sapper, though they've been buffed many times so maybe they are good now.

Soviet doesn't really get many choices for infantry transport, so just pick the fastest free truck. You can have a squad with vet and put them in 50cal HT so the HT can get some vet as well.

[MagmaShark]

Generally all the soviet infantry divisions are pretty similar in infantry quality there's just some small variations, mainly some have dedicated flamethrower infantry squads which are the best close quarters Soviet infantry as well as the support ones and/or the 20 unit penal infantry squads which are the best LMG Soviet squads and pretty much as close as your going to get to best universal weapons infantry. The A tier Soviet infantry division has these units and is probably the best in terms of infantry quality.

When picking infantry cards you generally want to look at the number of weapons they have and what they have as that usually determines what role they play. Lots of SMG's, satchel charges, and flamethrowers? That's a close quarters squad and is going to be good in forests and buildings. LMG's? Then it's probably your standard rifle squad better at long to medium range engagements.

Ant-tank weapons are also a pretty important bazooka's are the best but you usually only have those in dedicated anti-tank teams. Anti-tank rifles have good range but have a hard time dealing with any serious amount of armor, so are best suited to phase A. Anti-tank grenades and panzerfausts have short ranges but are pretty common in infantry squads. Usually I try to have a good mix.

Usually I take the fastest vehicles for my infantry unless I want to increase their firepower with armed transports. Armored transports are good for deploying your infantry in places that are under small arms fire. I find armed transports are best for supporting infantry in forests where you wouldn't want to risk a tank.

Hope this helps

P.S. your support flame throwers died because they weren't supporting any infantry to take damage for them or ambushing the infantry.