I would be interested as well. And they are still floating MP in almost every game I play against them. To the point of being able to replace entire blobs I have Demod. The only people that seem to suffer are folks that contantly Spam Falls and lose squads left right and center.
If you spam conscripts as Soviets, you won't be lacking for MP income either. The problem is that Soviets have other options other than just getting buttloads of conscripts, those options are not presented to the OKW player because of the artificial income disability.
No, you buy your initial squads and if you didn't take any serious losses during engagement you start floating MP waiting for tanks. If you're smart and take your fights wisely you can hold on to your side of the map and using Flack truck sit tight until tanks arrive without any other spending. OKW early game ahsn't been affected by last patch if I remember correctly.
If you will be able to use this outstanding manpower to convert it into other resources you will be able to field Panther in like 10th minute of the game which is unbalanced as f'''k.
You can't rely on Volks to deal with enemy infantry, it doesn't work like that. You need to get elite infantry out which takes up a fair amount of population cap and manpower. The issue is that when the mid game hits and every faction starts getting tanks (thus spending MP on them) OKW is sitting around twiddling it's thumbs just being forced to make more infantry.
If you put Opal trucks in, at say 320 MP, you would see a lot less MP float as OKW would have an option to increase fuel and munitions in come at a cost to MP income. This would put them on par with all the other factions, who all have ways to converting MP into fuel and munitions income.
That in addition to say giving OKW more support weapons.
Lets look at infantry unit lists for units dedicated to fighting enemy infantry,
USF mainline infantry:
Riflemen, Para's
Ostheer:
Assault grens, grens, un-upgraded p grens
Soviets:
Cons, Penals, Shocks, Ass guards
OKW:
Volks, Sturms, Obers, Fuss, JLI, Fallsch
OKW has a buttload of regular mainline infantry, but extremely little support weapons
USF:
.50 cal, Pack Howitzer, AT Gun
Ost:
Sniper, Mortar, MG42, Pak 40, Pak 43, LefH
Soviets:
120mm, 82mm, ZiS, 45mm AT gun, B4, M-20, maxim, sniper
OKW:
ISG, Rackten, MG34, Pak43
All the USF support weapons are non-doctrinal, only 2 of the Ost support weapons are doctrine based 4 of the Soviet ones are doctrine based, but come in many doctrines, and 1/2 of OKW's support weapons are doctrinal.
OKW lacks the tools to use combined arms, and it has a fuckload of regular infantry.