Griefbringer
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Remember that what you buy with your support points is for one battle only - so you will lose them after the battle, and get to buy new support troops for your next one.
So you should buy troops that are most appropriate for the scenario, so start by doing your intel work. Check out the scenario description for what is your task - defence, amphibious assault, ground assault on prepared or improvised defences, meeting engagement, quick raid, breakout or something else. Check out if there is anything known about the possible enemy (but take it with a grain of salt, it could be misleading). And very importantly take a look at the map for terrain (open, hilly, forested, towns etc.) and check the visibility conditions.
As a general rule, in close terrain and poor visibility infantry becomes more useful, while on open areas long ranged weapons like cannons and MGs (whether on tanks or on foot) become more effective and unsupported infantry will not fare against them. Against static enemy artillery becomes a powerful weapon, and with smoke rounds it can change the local visibility conditions on your favour.
On missions where you need to advance, mobility is very useful. It is normally handy to make sure that your infantry is equipped with transports, and tanks are more handy than heavy weapons on foot because they can move and fire (and pack some armour), while on defensive static MGs and ATGs are very handy (especially when packed up with infantry and small mobile tank reserve).
And combined arms are always important - make sure that you can deal effectively with everything the enemy throws at you (infantry, massed tanks, bunkers, air strikes, artillery etc.), though it has to be pointed out that SP scenarios usually are pretty tank orientated in a sense that the tanks-to-men ratio on the opposing force is usually rather heavy, so you need to pack a plenty of anti-tank capacity if you want to be succesful.
So there is not one good way of picking the support troops, you have to think what you will need. Experience is the best teacher here, so try out different units and you will learn soon what is a suitable role for certain unit.
If I had to recommend something specific to your force, I could say that some more recon forces and anti-tank weapons might come useful in a lot of scenarios.
Griefbringer
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