Best Uses/Practices for: Halftracks

[Soldier]

I like to move my infantry up front with them until contact with enemy is made. Then I order them to stick around, to support infantry (now on foot) with their MGs and more importantly, draw enemy armor into the fight.
My armor is kept just slightly behind the halftracks, to deal with such a response.
Nothing makes a better Tiger bait, then an Americana build halftrack.. :-)