Profile of JohnnyB

Building more than 2 vehicles as OKW in a match ---> bulletin: "fuel penalty lifted for you"

Ya in team games maybe even when both axis partners are ostheer. But Okw... mmh.

The answer is this: would you still play a faction that grants you the victory in 80% of situation? You won't, unless you are a very bad looser and have an orgasm while in seeing only "victory" on your screen. That is why people are playing more Axis than Allied. It's more challanging. It's quite simple to figure it out. Oh, and Relic, making more and more difficult to play with Axis, won't balance the situation, on the contrary

I wouldn't recommend OKW unless you are top 300 or something.
I rather see OKW like a trap for a player.

At first, it looks nice and shiny with its powerfull infantry units. Strong opening, but... no real sniper counter! And its infantry units are expensive especially if we talk about sturmpios....
Then, as game evolves you will find yourself happy if you succeed to build a Panther or a jagdpanzer. For lucky ones, let's say one jagdpanther and a Puma. In the meantime, the opponent, knowing your weakness, may have several tanks on the battlefield and will try to storm you with them. He knows you have a strong AT infantry based on volks with schrecks, so he builds balistic weapons (especially mortars) and mgs. Due to your lack of vehicles you won't be able to force into their positions and take out the ballistics and mgs. not without loosing your vehicle(s) that will be replaced with difficulty due to fuel shortage, not counting the lack of build caches ability. Of course you can try to exchange amo forfuel from T3, but this won't help you much and will force you to build your strategies around T3 which is not inantry supportive as T2 is.
So slowly, you will fall into an uncertain defensive, you will loose the initiative, your infantry will be smashed by ballistics, (american self propelled or katiushas and mortars from russians) and eventualy you will be defeated, after heroicly killing 3 T70s and 2 T34s for instance, but this won't matter as your adversary can continue building lots of them. Using the wurframen won't save you, he will make a quick attack, chasing it and killing it. Okay, so he will loose 1-2 tanks by doing it, but there is no problem, he can build more. YOU CAN'T.

In 2v2s same rules as above will apply adding this: don't even try to place a truck forward. (In 1v1 you can still do it, it's safer). The other team will spot it's location and in most of cases it will erase it in a matter of minutes no matter how much support you will receive from your partner. If you make your opponents lose verry much infantry by doing it, then maybe you have a chance. In middle game, any sort of ballistic weapons will constantly bomb your advanced truck until you lose it - even if you place it behind a house, trees or bushes. Of course I'm talking about T2 or T3, T4 you have to place it forward, that's its purpose.

OKW it's broken I guess, and it was from the beginning, but people didn't figure it out how to defeat it before. But now, they did, and there are several tactics that guarantees victory against it.
As soviets, I didn't see yet a tactic that could fail: con spam with ppsh into balistics and T34s(76 or 85) works, sniper spam + M3 into T34s (76 or 85) and guards works, maxim spam into ISU 152 works, shock spam + IS2 works, etc etc.

How about improving their received accuracy? Their main problem is their wekness, they disappear to fast . That way they won't need the fifth man.