Except you can't play any other was as OKW other than using forward truck placement because that is how the faction was designed.
That design ceased to exist 2 weeks before WFA release.
The faction was designed to forward placement of trucks when it had limited economy and trucks gave 100% sector income for the sector and had to be linked together.
Ever since that was scrapped, truck placement is nothing more then risk vs reward equation, you can play it safe and build it in base, where you'll be protected from arty or build it forward, reap benefits of it and be exposed to hardcounters.
You're 15 months behind.