No they dont. Only exeption is germsn ‘sniper’ that uses mkb 42 as assault rifle should be used.
I agree that there needs to be tutorial for engineer and they should be unlocked right away or 2-3 at max. I started several weeks ago and to be honest it took a while to figure out engineers are important. Also as a new player I fell into a trap of choosing wrong specialist into the squad because I had little experience and at that time tanks seemed like a major problem so I went with AT trooper only to find out later that I won’t get them sooner than a couple of days.
It is clearly visible in Tunisia that putting engineer so far in the campaign was bad idea. Time to time I try it because of BP so I have mostly stock troops there but there are so many matches (especially Axis) when there is clearly no engineer and when enemy builds spawn points close to the objective and you have to run hundreds of meters then the match is decided just by that.
Agree but disagree. Providing engineers from the start instead of tanks would be better.