I'm glad to read 4 280mp cost vanilla unit should always been beaten by 240mp HMG and 240mp grenadiers.
Now everything is cristal clear, Ostheer is designed to be the strongest faction early game while having cheapest dedicated units.
1270mp + 25fu invested, probably 30 or 60 ammo used to counter a 240mp unit in a building. And the best, the 240mp unit wasn't even supported. 
Made my day 
If you let 4 riflemen get crushed by 1 HMG and 1 Gren, you must be a noobie blobber.
I've played 6 1v1s in this patch, 1 of them versus top 100 usf player, and he still totally dominated me in early game althrough i had 2 HMG42s. He always found a way to flank or use the environment or just nades. Infact all usf players, except for that one blob king, still dominated me in early game as Wehrmacht.