Delete all ships. Dont produce any.

Starting 1936 you produce just fighter and Naval Bombers.

Spam the ♥♥♥♥ out of the English Channel with them. If you got the range throw in Port Strikes and everything around brittain as well. Naval and Port strikes kill off the pride eventually along with everything the brittish have.


Put defensive orders for your coastline or harbors. They will spam those naval invasions a lot while you hunt for it.


Why delete every ship you have? They want to be confident enough in plopping the Pride near you.
Dont even deploy the fighters and Naval Bombers for a month or two and let them have at your convoys. You want the AI confident in what they are doing.
Increases the chance of the pride being out in the open. And you are gonna catch them lacking the second those naval bombers and fighters come out of your stockpile.
The fighters you set on interdiction missions so they intercept enemy fighters coming for your naval bombers.

Thats about it.
You cant really control where the pride of the fleet is going to be. You can gaslight the ai into thinking its completely safe to basically shove the thing up your ass.