Back to the original question, it is tough to say whether or not the infantry heavy tactic was better in his particular game. All we know is QB, ME, May '43 and he is Russian. From that we know that his infantry is certainly lower quality than the opponent. But the fact that he has at least some armor gets me to wonderin' what he is doing wrong. If he got to the flag first and is getting surrounded by infantry, just back up and level the joint. There is nothing wrong with retreating to a decent LOS and blasting away for a while. While maybe not as realistic as we would like, it is just a game and you are trying to win, right? The best way to try to solve the riddle would be for the author of the post to put up a screenshot so we can see exactly what forces he has and what terrain he is dealing with. If it is woods and he is sitting at the flag with a bunch of crappy T-26, yes, that is a loss waiting to happen, even vs. green German infantry. On the other hand, even a platoon of T-26 can at least hold off (maybe) the Germans if LOS is good. Certainly if there is decent LOS a platoon of T-34 would be able to dominate by simply backing up and blasting away - but there is just too little info in the original post to go on.