Who to get now?

I have bought Govorov after Badoglio. Tech infantry lvl 7, aircraft 5, artillery 4 and tanks 1. This let me get everything from 1939 (City of Cuzco got playing for 1 star country), 1843 haven't tried yet, and in campaigns got till WTO3 / Nato 4 and looks like I can proceed without any problems, as 3 stars in last levels were quite easy to get. Instead of these two I have 1 eye covered with 3 air stars. The only problem, I can't clear missions to get Terracota Army, so now I'm saving for Vasilevsky or may be Konev to proceed with missions.

I really don't understand why everyone wants to get Guderian at the start of the game. IMHO tank generals are good when you have super tanks, but that's not start of the game. Guderian's price is the same as Badoglio+Govorov, and together they can act much better, in case goal is to win as fast as you can. Artillery is much easier to get (2nd level factory is ok) and it is cheaper.

Sorry, you haven't quoted me, so I thought it is reply to general topic and you offer to buy Guderian after Badoglio.

And in fact as number 3 I am going to buy now Vasilevsky. Sure, in Nato/WTO (where I am playing now) Guderian can be very useful, but I want to buy Vasilevsky to get Terracota Army. Now I am stuck in missions, anb as I remember when I played first time, buying infantry general let me proceed to Terracota Army in missions. Sure, this is very odd strategy, but for now I don't have problems with current generals, so I will be able to buy Gunderian before I will have problems with current+Vasilevsky.

Arnold would be better cause movement hey wont fight that much so you dont need stars in Artillery or Inf you get me you dont want to risk their life, So a perfect general would be 5 Air 5 Movement 5 Armored, Shelter or the anti air skill , Money master and I guess Steel master could be useful,Blitzkrieg and you can use both of the skills air and nukes or get an another skill.
But all of this sounds really nice and all but this is endgame stuff

Not really, they can give good headstart. For example, when I have played 1939 for Egypt even starting Egyptian infantry general (170 hp, 3 infantry stars, lv2 explosives, lv1 raider and 1 movement star) helped significantly, and I could afford second artillery only on second turn for Badoglio and Govorov, and one more infantry I could afford on second turn too, but buying a tank could take quite a long time, and motorized infantry I can drop 2 turns away from the city, this way speeding up even more. Sure, infantry general will die quite quickly, but later it is not important, but in the beginning it can save some 4-5 turns.

In CW too, for example, I just played Sea Road - you start with one rocket artillery, one super tank, one commando and some other units (not of this kind). And you need quite many money to buy nukes. But if you buy one more artillery and use 2 artillery, one tank and one infantry general - that would be enough to get 3 stars quite easy.

Infantry generals just die too easily.
Armoured cars, heavy tanks, super heavy tanks all deal 50% more damage to infantry.
As soon as you meet a general on one of those your infantry general is toast.

Max Otto von Stierlitz, I find you should get a navy general instead if you are aiming for Terracota Army since its on the navy path.