Killing Infantry

[Krotos]

Before I ask my question, I just want to express my deep gratitude to the members of this community. I have never experiences such prompt and useful responses to game questions and issues as I have on this board. You are all to be congratulated.

Now to my question:

A few days ago, I asked for and received some excellent advice -- particularly from Andy -- regarding how best to deal with the lethality of ATMs and RPGs etc. I now have a similar question regarding enemy infantry.

I am playing a generated campaign in the mide 80s in which I am playing West Germany and fighting the Soviets and East Germans. While I can now deal with the RPGs, ATGMs, and enemy armour, I am having an extrodinarily hard time dealing with enemy infantry. The problem is, they seem imune to small arms fire. I can suppress them with tank MGs, mortars, and my own infantry, but actually killing enemy squads seems to be a problem. I just concluded a scenario in which I had 5 Leopars II 5As and 6 Marder IIs (with their infantry) rain down fire upon a dismounted Soviet infantry squad in the absolute clear at range 1. In the first turn, I managed to kill 2 members of the squad and pin them. However, it took me 2 turns to force them to retreat, and a further 2 turns to kill them.

While the above example is extreme, it is not atypical -- at least for me. I would therefore like some advice on how best to deal with dismounted infantry. They seem to be extremely resillient (more so than some armour), and rally quickly (even after taking extreme losses).

Any advice would be most eagerly welcomed.

Thanks in advance,

Krotos