I think the best thing to examine is how worth it is the ship in not just randoms and ranked, but coop and ops. The net effect is that though California has a 20.5 knot top speed, she's usually flirting with much less -- as little as 15.3 knots at 4/4 engine settings. (37% damage reduction for Arizona vs 36% for California). I think they are some of the most interesting warships of the Second World War. She could have ended up like Poltava with a max of 4 charges of heals. 1. Ron DeSantis exacts punishment, takes over Disney district on eve of book launch. Her turning radius of 760m is decent. It's not amazing, but it's alright. I think in this regard the ship is somewhat worth it. Mouse. Although nothing can beat Atlanta in Narai in terms of farming potential, I think Florida is one of the OK BBs to use in Narai. Everyone has their preferences but it's not bad. The Gators average only 0.2 more points than the Wildcats allow (69.3). Before patch 0.8.0, the levels of AA firepower California puts out would have been formidable and worth celebrating. California is very sneaky for a tier VII battleship. +4% increased dispersion of enemy shells. It could be worse, I suppose. I love playing Arizona but i won't pay to have it at tier 7. Arizona has better upper-hull armour. 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. For me, Lyon is the best BB for Narai, Ashitaka being the second, due to their speed and DPM. Pow Wows In Your State Pow Wows in California Redbird's 21st Children of Many Colors Intertribal Pow Wow 2023 Jun 2 - Jun 4, 2023 - Oxnard CA Thank you @LittleWhiteMouse. Coz no mehbote to gudbote rating. I bought the super Pershing in Tanks.. opps. QueensFGCU. And I mean that in the same way I tell my significant other that "it's fine" when things are clearly not. It's all of the little things which add up to a bad experience for me. If you asked me to point at the one thing that bugs me the most about them, I'd probably tell you it's the 4/s gun traverse, which seems stupid to complain about given all of the other issues. However, I think that this quibble illustrates my beef with Florida's gunnery as a whole. Her slow turret traverse is just that "one more thing" that feels off about this ship. No matter her advantages, there's always a big ol' butt attached. And she gains naught for these handicaps. They're perfectly adequate -- I'm not here to tell you that they're broken, bugged, under-performing or what have you. They're well balanced and put out the hurt reasonably well. In fact, they've got a lot of good things going for them including good(ish) fire arcs, good range, decent AP penetration values and that sweet, sweet battlecruiser dispersion. So what's my beef? Thank you for the preemptive warning, I meanreview on this one. California gets no tools to seriously mitigate this. There's nothing out of the ordinary here. Long ranged with a starting reach of 19.9km which can be extended to as much as 27.7km between upgrades and consumables. 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 Florida's upgrade choices are pretty dull. She just isn't a must-have in my fleet, which for me makes her a don't-buy. Oh no you didn't! +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 However, she has enough problems already without considering CV strikes. Whenever I use a BB for Narai, I prefer to go east of convoy so that I can catch MO broadside when it turns. The North Carolina Tar Heels (18-11, 10-8 ACC) and Florida State Seminoles (9-20, 7-11) tangle Monday in Tallahassee. This is a booby prize in the current meta. If you purchase online, Legoland Florida tickets are $84.99 (plus fees and tax) while Legoland California is $94.99 for kids and $100.99 for adults (plus fee and tax). In World of Warships, Florida represents the design XVI-C if the North Carolina-class would have ever been built this way. She also presents the same battlecruiser characteristics as Champagne and Slava with an improved dispersion but lighter armor than other battleships at her tier. But again, Arizona is a thing. USS California's inclusion in World of Warships bothers me on so many levels. USN could choose between type of plane, type of ordnance, etc. I'll play a shoddy ship back to back for hundreds of games provided she's fun (I've done it too -- I loved Atlanta before Surveillance Radar was a thing). Wargaming knows it too. For me, Ship Comrade allowed me to greatly increase the quality of my reviews. This long format, like you're seeing here with Florida, was facilitated entirely by having my content written for Ship Comrade. Critter8 encouraged CCs like myself and @Aetam to host our content on his site. As you can imagine, writing for a web-page is much more forgiving than writing for a forum post -- it didn't have to all be written in a single sitting, for example. In going over Ship Comrade's archives, it was a treat to watch how my reviews grew in size and ambition. My early reviews were usually written in an afternoon and seldom held more than four or five jpegs. Florida's review has nearly thirty and has been written over the course of a week.. Thank you for everything. And thank you all for reading. The LSU Tigers womens basketball team strung together its second-straight win since a disappointing loss to South Carolina on Sunday, beating Florida on the road 90-79. However, I do not love Arizona so much that I think cloning her game play and asking people to pay a premium price tag for a tier VII version is right. As of December 2020, Floridas (preliminary) unemployment rate was at 6.1% while Californias was 9%. The Gators average only 0.2 more points than the Wildcats allow (69.3). Mileage probably determined on if you want a premium USN BB for Narai or not. Fair enough. Softer-skinned than contemporary battleships with 25mm extremities. Despite their outdated designs, they went on to not only find a role in the fast-modernizing US Navy but they went on to engage triumphantly in one of the final battleship surface actions in history. Just saw ichase's vid also. But the winter surge slammed California, and that gap narrowed to 11%. 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. 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. The final thing to keep in mind is that because of her long range, every time she pulls the trigger, she rings the dinner bell. The Florida at tier VII is based on the North Carolina-class of battleships as it was initially designed. After World War I, to stop the naval arms race that was raging between the different nations, multiple treaties were signed, including the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the Second London Naval Treaty of 1936. Tier VII battleship. One of those was a T8 battle and one a T9.. The totals have gone OVER in 7 of Queens' 11 last games at home. If I were to purchase one, Florida would get my money for sure., Whilst I appreciate the very solid review you have provided for yet another ship, I am far more appreciative of your last few paragraphs on @Critter8and the rest of you folks. As for the economic impact, Californias unemployment rate more than doubled to 9.3% since February 2020, while Floridas rose by less, from 3.3% to 5.1%. 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. If you had to choose one, Arizona is the better purchase, hands down. February 28, 2023 11:24 am ET. The best that can be said is that California won't be high on the enemy aircraft's priority list. Long range is nice, so flex those aiming skills you've acquired, but her gun caliber and long reload will largely limit the impact this has. Hmm Thanks Mouse really good food for thought. This would have made her functionally as fast as Nagato under manoeuvres. Ships with stars have been changed or added since patch 0.9.6. She doesn't get access to Aiming Systems Modification 1 to reduce her main battery gun dispersion. Furthermore, that big 26mm area is just begging to receive hits from HE spam. She might not be physically present in the heat of combat, but her reach should allow her to at least offer some contribution while she lags way in the back. California's AP penetration is okay. So, there are slow battleships in World of Warships and then there are the American premium standard-types. The Wildcats score just 1.4 fewer points per game (67.4) than the Gators give up (68.8). Double Down, Ohio! Be careful on saying the ship is good because it's performing well. Summary so far: California has absolutely amazing AA levels. Based on our research, heres the ranking of states where average annual car insurance rates are the most expensive: Florida: $2,560. There's a stigma against lower-calibre guns for having poor penetration performance and this is largely undeserved. American 356mm AP shells, for example, have very good penetration and Florida's is improved even beyond this. She is capable, for example, of penetrating upwards of 400mm worth of plate at 15km. She has more than enough punch to land citadel hits against just about any broadside target, including some of the softer-skinned battleships up to ranges of 20km. So you don't need to worry about Florida not having enough teeth to citadel an Iowa in most encounters, should the opportunity arise. I stress the word opportunity, however.. This can be especially problematic if you've boosted her range and there are silly things like a bored Musashi or Champagne itching for targets. Wow California is finally upon us? Great work as always, Mouse! California's increased rate of fire, higher shell damage and sigma are all nice but the difference is so minor as to be largely unnoticeable. While tier VI carriers have to respect your AA firepower they can still strike you. i feel like its an insult to the playerbase that WG expects people to actually spend about 50 bucks on this garbage, truly a waste of devs time and money but isnt that par for the course with WG nowadays? Florida Gov. In their hot shooting performance, the Tar Heels saw four players make three or more made 3s in a game the first time in program history. These reviews have significant amounts of data and stats, plenty to draw your own conclusions. Once engaged at medium-range, there's really not much this ship can do about it short of trying to fight her way out. So, you can keep your Iowas, the romance (to me) lies in names like West Virginia, Tennessee and California. Vulnerable, high-water citadel with as little as 285mm worth of armour. However, she has very poor gun fire angles, horrible agility and no appreciable gains in defense all while being up-tiered to tier VII. Shots are coming in from right to left with Fuso bow-tanking. Taylor Jones. The only Florida Ive seen in Narai was deleted 3 minutes in somehow. Mouse, while knowledgeable, is subject to her own personal biases, likes, preferences, just like the rest of us. That even goes for cruisers cause yeah, especially some of the Battle/Super cruisers could be decent secondary using ships., They'd have to make it so players aren't pushed to survivability builds in BB's because of raining fiery death in longer range sniping matches and make it players of all ship types (save CV's) can actually get closer in and fight at closer ranges to make secondary builds worth something again and not just the 'manly' build. In their past 10 I've sorted these ships by the formula I like to use (DPS x [range-1km]) to give a better, but not entirely accurate, impression of AA effectiveness -- the logic being that longer range AA is better than shorter range AA. Those are my sentiments to the silent warriors. They are truly the ones that really profoundly had (has) an effect to the mass public, unlike the affect the Whiskey Golf tries to show in their own efforts. I really don't like her alternative palette. It's a dull, elephantine grey in unflattering patterns. Florida's citadel layout tells you all you really need to know about this ship's durability. The TL:DR is that her citadel abuts against the exterior of her hull and it sits above the waterline. With only 285mm worth of belt protection, this exposed "T-section" of her citadel is stupid-easy to bullseye for waterline-aimed shots from enemy battleships. For 380mm+ AP shells aimed at her bows, her transverse bulkhead is almost as vulnerable. Now it's just a reminder of how much potential is wasted in the current meta. Phenomenal AA power is watered down more heavily than American Lite Beer. THIS should be your mission statement. Catch the excitement and bet with Tipico! You need to play a total of 20 battles to post in this section. I was curious about this ship as i really love playing Arizona. 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. Simply tragic. You have a lot to learn from Ms. This is how ALL of your people should think! CV's - they are basically always going to be stuck with one optimized skill choice. Now that said, with this high-profile release covered and my feels (hopefully) clearly broadcast, I'm taking some much needed time off. Over on the defensive end, the Panthers In their past 10 matchups, the Panthers are 6-4-0 to earn 80.0% of the possible points. In short, my guess is that Florida will do great in the only Tier 7 OP we currently have, although there are better choices. I want to head off any impulse purchases and warn players that they're not getting a ship worthy of California's name. I have no idea why Wargaming didn't provide her with the tech-tree style energy preservation. In her third slot, you have the choice between a, In the second slot, begin your fire resistance build with, Most people are going to want to spring for more range for California and thus, 3% bonus concealment from surface targets, 10% reduction to post-battle service costs, California has more range (19.9km vs 16km), California's AP shells do more damage (10,500 vs 10,300), California has a faster reload (34.2s vs 35s). 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