I try to build two battlecruisers and two battleships before the war starts as well as mutliple light cruisers and destroyers all of improved quality. Besides this I build close to thirty submarines of long range class. This all does cost a lot but I still manage to push 120 divisions including 12 armoured at the war's start. It might be expensive and leave a little dent in the normal division production but you don't need those divisions at that time and taking out Britain either in late summer 1939 or early spring 1940 means you have taken out a serious pain and you no longer need 30+ divisions defending the west coast (you still need to have the fleet patrolling though).
I must admit I have only used sea planes as Italy and I found them lacking then. I only had three and they where of the earliest variety but still they only managed to take out the completely obsolete Spanish fleet one ship at a time (yes I invaded) and only while taking substantial losses.
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