On another thread, there was a discussion about how much time it would take to get German reinforcements (AKA, Rommel) into Africa. Basically it came down to: T1-capture French TT on Med, T2, build IC, T3 Build transports and units at IC, T4, first opportunity for units to arrive in Africa. This was deemed long and cumbersome, and people were despairing that Africa would become an Italy-only endeavor.
The setup on the image we’ve seen gave me a thought (with all the caveats on the unreliability of the image as a representation of the actual setup). Even with Germany having no territories on the Med to start, it would be perfectly reasonable and even likely for the Germans to start with a transport and a destroyer in the Med (Relying on Italy for protection). This way, the Germans could start shuttling units over on turn 2.