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(At GMT time June 19th, this post was reopened despite the author having already reposted according to a senior member/moderator's advice, and the second post seems a lot better answered.)

what would be a suitable choice for "infantries"(the quote unquote is because it's not necessarily a real person, possibly just a rover with a gun doing the job of a footsoldier) for this following setting? the general background, especially the technology, is a bit messy with a mix of near, mid and far-future tech that I'll attempt to outline below (for example a capital ship in the setting belonging to the state might have a antimatter beam-core engine while it's missiles are methalox/Metallic Hydrogen rockets launched from a coilgun and communicating with other ships with lasers then gitting a reply with neutrinos)

In responce to the situation being described above, what could the state's infantry be primarily armed with? (just the "assault rifle", more specialized weapons such as anti-armor is a totally different issue, which I also happen to be more confident in)

What would be a suitable choice for "infantries"  (the quote unquote is because it is not necessarily a real person, possibly just a rover with a gun doing the job of a footsoldier) for this following setting? the general background, especially the technology, is a bit messy with a mix of near, mid and far-future tech that I'll attempt to outline below (for example a capital ship in the setting belonging to the state might have a antimatter beam-core engine while it's missiles are methalox/Metallic Hydrogen rockets launched from a coilgun and communicating with other ships with lasers then gitting a reply with neutrinos)

In responce to the situation being described above, what could the state's infantry be primarily armed with? (Just the "assault rifle", more specialized weapons such as anti-armor is a totally different issue, which I also happen to be more confident in)

what would be a suitable choice for "infantries"(the quote unquote is because it's not necessarily a real person, possibly just a rover with a gun doing the job of a footsoldier) for this following setting? the general background, especially the technology, is a bit messy with a mix of near, mid and far-future tech that I'll attempt to outline below (for example a capital ship in the setting might have a antimatter beam-core engine while it's missiles are methalox/Metallic Hydrogen rockets launched from a coilgun and communicating with other ships with lasers then gitting a reply with neutrinos)

2: The opponent is also human, however as they're interstellar colonists who had no contact with the state for roughly three hundred years, the state is as familiar with them as the Aztecs are familiar with the conquistadors. They relies on infantry far more than it does on armored vehicle or artillery (if this sounds awfully world war 1 to you, you're absolutely correct, because the vast majority of their wars are either purely space combat or really didn't call for more than infantry). They have little automation so robotic enemies are out of the question. Their infantry is protected either very poorly with little to no protection at all, with heavy armor that would be considered NIJ standard type IV armor by modern standards, or force fields that could be depleted with a handful of 12.7s while being armed with star wars Blaster-like weapons

what would be a suitable choice for "infantries"(the quote unquote is because it's not necessarily a real person, possibly just a rover with a gun doing the job of a footsoldier) for this following setting? the general background, especially the technology, is a bit messy with a mix of near, mid and far-future tech that I'll attempt to outline below (for example a capital ship in the setting belonging to the state might have a antimatter beam-core engine while it's missiles are methalox/Metallic Hydrogen rockets launched from a coilgun and communicating with other ships with lasers then gitting a reply with neutrinos)

2: The opponent is also human, however as they're interstellar colonists who had no contact with the state for roughly three hundred years, the state is as familiar with them as the Aztecs are familiar with the conquistadors. They relies on infantry far more than it does on armored vehicle or artillery (if this sounds awfully world war 1 to you, you're absolutely correct, because the vast majority of their wars are either purely space combat or really didn't call for more than infantry). They have little automation so robotic enemies are out of the question. Their infantry is protected either very poorly with little to no protection at all, with heavy armor that would be considered NIJ standard type IV armor by modern standards, or force fields that could be depleted with 20 hit from 12.7s while being armed with star wars Blaster-like weapons. Their force fields could stop a single EMP or electrocution attack by taking it for whatever it is protecting once and getting disabled as a result.