I do think it's a bit silly that you are forced to glue your rifles to green cover or 2v1 them while spending ammo with rear echelons to be able to beat the OKW's starting unit. Sure, they're expensive to reinforce, but 2-3 of them, if used well, can wrestle map control like nobody's business and USF don't have any reliable early counters. Grenades are too expensive and lack punch, BARs at 60 ammo apiece come too late, more rifles won't help unless you play heavily on the defensive since they drop like flies to MP44s. The Lieutenant tangles with them well enough but 50 fuel is a lot and means no ambulance for you.
Maybe having 2-3 Rear echelons might do it, to use rifle volley more often. But then you're in huge trouble as soon as vehicles start hitting the field because they scale horribly.
Well, too bad sturm pios loose to rifles if rifles are kept at range and if he approaches you, he WILL loose mdoels and the fight.