The dark red is 343mm thick while the orange strip at the bottom is where it tapers to 273mm. For me, Lyon is the best BB for Narai, Ashitaka being the second, due to their speed and DPM. However, she has very poor gun fire angles, horrible agility and no appreciable gains in defense all while being up-tiered to tier VII. They are phoenixes that rose from the ashes of Pearl Harbor. Queens are 2-3 in their last 5 games. California's citadel (in yellow) is fully submerged well below the waterline. If she can't be powerful, she needs to be interesting and she fails at that utterly. The property tax in Florida averages at 0.98% whereas in California it is 0.73%. Ostensibly, this should allow her to disengage more easily by holding fire but let's not kid ourselves into imagining that she can escape pursuit. She doesn't have a nigh-impervious citadel like Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. Thank you for the preemptive warning, I meanreview on this one. If you're struggling to see a difference in as clinical and sterile a trial as this, you have no hope of feeling the difference through normal game play. It should be hella tasty and refreshing. Arizona is "long ranged" for a tier VI battleship once you install Gun Fire Control System Modification 1, so you largely duplicate California's schtick there too. Florida can land a lot of hits with her HE shells. There's a pretty hard cap on how far skill will take you with this ship. Arizona's weapons are amazing at tier VI. Florida man, Florida man Guess the tune. The following is a review of USS Florida, the tier VII American premium battleship. I did not pay fo He approached me about my frustrations with Club Wargaming and he took an active leadership role among the various content creators to approach Wargaming about our complaints. It was by his initiative that the WGNA CC-program took shape under NikoPower (of CorgiFleet fame). From those conversations, @iChase, @NoZoupForYou, @Notser, @TitiuBlack, Critter8 and I became the first NA-CCs in early January of 2016. While I could gush endlessly about everything NikoPower did for us, it was Critter8 who stands out as the leader we needed. He brought the six of us would-be professionals (with integrity) together. Tier VII battleship. Tier VI+ battleships, tier VIII+ cruisers all have a minimum of 25mm worth of structural armour. But that 25mm+ threshold crops up in other places, such as the decks and amidship hulls of tier VI and VII heavy cruisers and the decks of tier VI and VII lights. VERDICT: You would think that for a sniper-battleship, her guns would be fun. But they're not fun. I didn't have fun at all with these weapons (except for maybe paddling a lolibote or two at very close range. The moneyline odds say Florida has a 62.3% chance of winning this game. All things told, it's not bad for helping keep shells out (especially when angling). They'd also have to stop with things like secondary's being a national flavour thing. Hmm Thanks Mouse really good food for thought. Something not really mentioned is her torpedo protection, though probably not needed due to her low HP. That 26% really doesn't amount to much as even a single torpedo from any of the ships you face there will hurt, especially if it hits an unprotected spot. You will need to avoid being torpedoed with her much more than any other BB. A salvo from the Campbeltown will cripple you, even if it all goes into the torpedo belt. Eat a salvo from the Farragut, and you are going to be in very bad shape. A salvo from Gallant will pretty much end your run. If either Farragut or Gallant hit you with a full (both launchers) salvo, your run is over, even at 100%. They could make West Virginia 1944 / 1945 fit at tier VIII for crying out loud. I'm just a slightly above average player too. These weapons are not worth upgrading any more than you would find it worthwhile to upgrade North Carolina's or Alabama's secondaries. Can only snipe and cannot take hits at all. Instead, she has Gun Fire Control Modification 1 which increases her main battery gun range. In order to land citadel hits, shells must contend with her 35mm anti-torpedo bulge then her 343mm belt and finally her 44mm citadel wall. This exaggerated manoeuvre bleeds speed (to say nothing of changing her heading and possibly navigating away from battle), further slowing her already ponderous pace. Vulnerable, high-water citadel with as little as 285mm worth of armour. The totals have gone OVER in 7 of Queens' 11 last games at home. I just came to read another review by LWM, and donot have Florida, but I have been farming in Narai since other farming OPs were taken down. Look at this chungus. You'll probably have to shell out some extra cash for the Freedom camo, whether that will be through a bundle or with doubloons after the fact. And I'm fine with that as long as they give us module choices like in RTS to customize are play. The North Carolina Tar Heels (18-11, 10-8 ACC) and Florida State Seminoles (9-20, 7-11) tangle Monday in Tallahassee. I want to head off any impulse purchases and warn players that they're not getting a ship worthy of California's name. Time to load up on bath salts and eat the faces of cruisers. Below, we analyze Tipico Sportsbooks lines around the North Carolina vs. Florida State odds, and make our expert college basketball picks, predictions and bets.. North I bought the super Pershing in Tanks.. opps. Hood is listed without DFAA active, just know that the numbers shown here jump by 50% when she pulls the trigger. Has one fewer Repair Party charges than most other battleships. Wargaming knows it too. Florida basketball got back on the winning track on Tuesday night with a 77-67 win over the Georgia Bulldogs on the road in the penultimate regular-season game for the Gators. +1 upboat for the review. I was looking forward to this review because I was unsure about if I was going to spend some dosh on Florida as a USN fan against a destroyer at stupid-close ranges. But against any other target, her HE is just found wanting. She doesn't have improved heals like the British battleships. Whenever I use a BB for Narai, I prefer to go east of convoy so that I can catch MO broadside when it turns. This might have worked had Arizona not been on offer -- California would have been more rightly compared to New Mexico and her strengths would seem obvious. It's worth being said: Arizona over-performs at her tier. 1. Florida Gov. I do so hope they finally understand how important an active, vocal gaming community is to a game such as WoWS., Thanks for sharing a bit of history with us., Awesome retrospective. The uptick was led by a spike in homicide. California has access to two camouflage patterns: Type 10 Camouflage California and Freedom -- California. You can largely forget applying those brawling skills or getting to cap or even angling to mitigate damage -- it's just not applicable. Queens are 2-3 in their last 5 games. This season, Florida A&M has been the underdog 19 times and won four, or 21.1%, of those games. And depending on nation, out right changes to how the ship play. +1 on the review but I am enjoying the Florida. When it comes to my battleships, I know what I like. The problem with simply looking at DPM charts is that it assumes everything is not only 100% accurate, but also that all shells perform equally when they strike a target. It patently ignores two crucial elements: As Roma so painfully demonstrated, you can have gorgeous paper stats but if you simultaneously struggle to (a) hit a target and (b) get anything other than over-penetrations, then your experience is going to be hella inconsistent. Florida has her own struggles, but at least she's very consistent when it comes to landing hits. Florida uses battlecruiser dispersion -- the same found on ninja-accurate battleships like Thunderer. Sadly, this isn't paired with a god-tier sigma value. Florida has 1.7 sigma competed to 1.9 of Thunderer or 2.0 of Champagne, so she doesn't feel quite so accurate as some of the higher-tiered snipers. The lower sigma means that the occasional shell will still fly wonky, though the smaller dispersion area means this won't be as wildly askew as other ships. In short: Florida's accuracy is good. You should land more hits per volley than her contemporaries which should help mitigate some of her DPM issues -- not all of them, but some. Really highlights the value of crossing the T - which, of course, no one doesbecause it doesnt work in WoWS. While California has the slight edge in health, it pays to keep in mind that Arizona has a large hit point pool for a tier VI battleship while California is on the low side of average for tier VII. This screenshot makes me sad. Okay fine Germany get's 1/4 that allows theirs to even wreck BB's when they hit weaker armour spots, fine, USN 127 mm guns should still have some decent range and be able to aim someplace they do damage on non-DD's and not just be fire starters. The first element is symptomatic of American battleships as a whole, especially the new line of American battleships that Florida heralds. At 33.5 seconds per volley, Florida's reload isn't as bad as some of the others in the new tech-tree, but let's not mince words: It sucks to wait that long between trigger pulls. I can stomach this if the results for waiting are particularly amusing, however Florida's gunnery is an exercise in frustration for me because of my second gripe: Florida's shell hits are not satisfying. Florida's shells, both AP and HE, don't hit especially hard. Their damage values are lower than you might expect for a 356mm weapon. In fact, Florida's damage output on her AP and HE shells is most closely matched by those off the sixteen-gun Lyon. Lyon has only a 30 second reload, I remind you, 3.5 seconds faster than Florida with a four-gun advantage. Compare: Her individual hits just aren't doing as much damage as other American battleships. While she still has better broadside weight than the ten-gun armed New York-class, she's well behind the other twelve-gun armed American standards despite having a better reload time than all of them. This deficit in shell damage (combined with her slower reload) means that in terms of raw damage potential, Florida falls way behind, ending up in the bottom half of the DPM charts despite her large number of guns. Rather than look for something new or novel, Wargaming played it safe. Summary so far: Well, so far so good, I suppose. Ez fix". VERDICT: Not as nimble as you might expect. Good enough, I suppose, but definitely not one of her strengths. Main Battery: Twelve 356mm/50 guns in 4x3 turrets in an A-B-X-Y superfiring configuration.Secondary Battery: Sixteen 127mm/38 guns in 8x2 turrets in superfiring pairs on either side of the ship facing fore and aft. (Arizona has a strip of 37mm armour above her belt while California's upper hull is only 26mm). Unfortunately the state of the CV rework makes AA unrewarding and frankly useless at times no matter how much of it you have. You probably want, Arizona & California's Main Battery Differences. Her protection scheme is otherwise fine though her snoot is a huge weak spot. +1 upboat for the review. No. Floridas games this season have gone over 6.5 goals 37 of 62 times. I admit a terrible reluctance to call any battleship's AA firepower "good". This said, when a pristine Florida activates her Defensive AA Fire and doubles her DPS, she has good AA firepower. Ships with stars have been changed or added since patch 0.9.6. Florida Scoring. California is a ship without game play identity. Usually it comes down to the captain to decide if a ship is worth it or not. For example, I loved the Hipper class and Prinz Eugen while most view Once you get past MO, then you enjoy shelling APs at broadside of whatever that comes into the harbor. CV's - they are basically always going to be stuck with one optimized skill choice. We already got that game play and at a better price and matchmaking. Top Speed: 27 knotsTurning Radius: 760mRudder Shift Time: 15.4 seconds4/4 Engine Speed Rate of Turn: 4.1/s. Florida played solid defense throughout the night, holding Georgia to 33.3 percent from the field and 18.2 percent from 3-point range (4-of-22) while recording 8 steals and 6 blocked shots. But seeing how she was being released reminded me of why I write these reviews in the first place: To protect other players from making bad purchases. What to do? The totals have gone OVER in 3 of Queens' last 5 games. Floridas games this season have gone over 6.5 goals 37 of 62 times. California has better deck protection (California's deck behind her superstructure and around her X & Y turrets is 31mm thick. I have 2 battles in it in randoms but only because I've been playing a lot of ranked plus grinding out the Minnesota. 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