Best way to use airmobile and panzergrenadiers?

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Armored infantry with those oh so expensive and easy to kill IFV's are best used as a reserve. Use them in the main line and they will get chewed up fast, giving your opponent lots of points. If the terrain is open, they are ok for your second line and the flank. I am referring to the age old formula of 37% in the front line, 33% in the second line, 10% on each flank and in the reserve. This is the basic distribution of forces that have been used since the Romans, who borrowed it from the greeks (I think, no direct evidence, but the Romans borrowed so much else). The units change, and the weapons get more lethal, but that is all. Most players buy mech units for the main line because they are impatient. Buy regular infantry, you have the time to march them into position more often then not.
Stalin said "Quanity has a quality all it's own"
A modern MBT costs about 400 points on the average. A rifle squad, with an anti-tank weapon that can kill the MBT costs about 20 points. Lets say 25. So you can buy 1 MBT or 16/20 rifle squads. The MBT is faster, but it can still only be in one place at a time. My 16 rifle squds will crawl forward 1 hex at a time and Kill the MBT with only a few lost. I can space them wide and cover 33 hexes, or 1 and 1/2 Km's. Or I can space them close and cover 17 hexes. Either way, I'm getting shots at 1 hex with high to hit percentages. So I now have 400 points and you have 75. Works for me.