You have two options when it comes to infantry, either you go 14/4 (14 infantry and 4 artillery) or 20 width pure infantry.

I recommend 14/4 for singleplayer and only situationally for MP, it will easily beat most AI divisions with green air, so if singleplayer is your thing, just build this coupled with fighters and cas and you will win every game.





But if you want to destroy your opponents with superior tank micro (both players and ai) you should build this template and instead of producing artillery produce tanks and more air.
(Note that these will not be able to attack, they are merely there to hold the line)


Add anti air if you are playing as the Soviets or if you are a Germany who can afford a great D-Day wall.

Note: Just change out the infantry on either division for mountaineers or marines and you've got a decent division for those two scenarios respectively (Fighting in hills/mountains or naval invasions)

Now we get to the fun part, the tanks, they are the most crucial part of the meta and they effectively decide who wins a multiplayer game, I would advice against light tanks (at least in MP) and go for either heavy or medium tanks. This choice is mostly personal preference and both are viable.

Change the motorized for mechanized if you can afford it, it's not crucial but it's a nice upgrade.

Singleplayer/Barbarossa

This is your basic tank, change out the mediums for heavies if that's your thing. BEWARE, you NEED to have full air control for this to work. This makes it usable in SP but only useful against no air Russia in MP.

Note: Change out some tanks for Medium Tank destroyers if you are facing a heavy tank Russia to increase the piercing, but it isn't needed in SP.

Here are two more realistic examples, we are changing out 1 tank for 2 SP AA, this means that air barely affects you.


German D-Day tank:
(Change out the mediums for heavies if that's your thing)

No air Russia:
(Change out the heavies for mediums if that's your thing)

Note: You should always have Engineers, recon and signals as support companies, add logistics if you are fighting in bad supply, such as North Africa or Barbarossa.

Note: Tank Upgrades: Gun > Reliability > Engine > Armor

1. Don't ever add field hospitals to your divisions, completely useless and the alternatives are miles better. experience trickleback is very small, and you are wasting a slot for that when you could add something else like maintainence or support AA/AT.

2, Forts suck, nations like Germany Japan, and potentially Italy start or can easily get fortbuster Generals, so they just get dabbed on.

3. Space Marines are g a r b a g e. Counter them by putting support AT in your infantry. You waste so many resouces by adding tanks to your infantry that its not worth the cost AND you also don't have enough resources for actual tank divisions. (space marines refers to having 1 or 2 tank brigades in an infantry division.) The ONLY time where this is viable is if you are playing France and you add Heavy two tank destroyers to your calvary divisions to pierce all german tanks and catch him offguard before he can get AT.

Note: Ignore this in SP, You can experiment and do pretty much whatever you want in that enviroment.

When it comes to land doctrine you have three choices, If you are playing singleplayer with the 14/4 template and air you should go Superior Firepower->Integrated support->Shock and Awe. (Right, Right)

But if you are playing MP or singleplayer with tanks you have two options, either you go Mobile Warfare->Blitzkrieg->Modern Blitzkrieg. (Right,Right)

Or Superior Firepower->Integrated Support->Airland Battle. (Right,Left)

Mobile will give you more org, recovery rate and breakthrough.

Superior will give you higher soft and hard attack values.

The choice is personal preference, I recommend you try both and see which one you like better.

Feel free to ask questions down below!