Florida has access to two different camouflage patterns. By default, she comes with Type 10 Camouflage. However. Ships with stars have been changed or added since patch 0.9.6. Floridas games this season have gone over 6.5 goals 37 of 62 times. Sure -- they have better range and much better sigma than New Mexico's. California's secondaries are crap and they didn't have to be. Most of her teeth come from her 40mm Bofors and 20mm Oerlikons, barring a CV being gracious enough to face-plant into a flak-cloud. These do not survive long under HE fire and even cursory smattering of HE rounds will quickly reduce the effectiveness of her AA and open her up to the potential of air-attack. She has excellent AA firepower. Good range for a tier VII battleship, able to reach out to 21.6km with her APRM1 modification. Florida's "Golden Eagle" camouflage has the same pin-up girl on her funnel as the camouflage made available for the new American tech tree battleships. I'm surprised by how much I enjoy this camo, though that may simply be because I'm not big on the other two. Ez fix". I'm not telling you which ship is which. No, she isn't. The issue, though, is that they're not improved enough over the tier VI premium's to be worthwhile. LOCATION: Donald L. Tucker Center in Tallahassee, Florida. So, you can keep your Iowas, the romance (to me) lies in names like West Virginia, Tennessee and California. Is California worth it? Florida can land a lot of hits with her HE shells. Florida is pretty much a normal tier VII battleship with an exposed, vulnerable citadel and weak Repair Party. You can also forget about successfully kiting or disengaging when things turn sour. Focus instead on her sloppy rudder shift time. She doesn't feel like she handles well because of it. Add on her modest turret traverse rate and she feels like a chunk-lord. Just saw ichase's vid also. The Wildcats score just 1.4 fewer points per game (67.4) than the Gators give up (68.8). California's protection scheme is decent for a tier VII battleship but it's nothing special either short of her anti-torpedo protection (which is good but not as amazing as the size of her bulges would suggest). You can see just how massive her 35mm anti-torpedo bulges are. "Ooh, 1.9 sigma with twelve guns? +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 The PvE-exclusive player doesn't appreciate a ship's strengths and vulnerabilities through the same lens as a KOTS finalist, for example, nor should they be expected to. This means the moment you touch their rudder, they dump their speed faster than a tweaked-out college student having their dorm inspected. I have 2 battles in it in randoms but only because I've been playing a lot of ranked plus grinding out the Minnesota. Im gonna judge based on the review its probably a Mehbote. Mileage probably determined on if you want a premium USN BB for Narai or not. Much of Floridas coastline has Caribbean-like water in terms of warmth and undisturbed turquoise waters. No. WHEN: Monday, Feb. 27, 7 p.m. Calfornia does have a higher muzzle velocity and thus better AP penetration over distance. 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. I find california to have more of a culture than florida. As we've already covered, she doesn't really have that much better of a chance of doing so than Arizona. NikoPower (of CorgiFleet fame). From those conversations, 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, I am here and there every where and no where. TV: ESPN ( Watch and stream the game live on ESPN+) RADIO: Tar Heel Sports Network. I wanna gloat like a happy teaboo, but Florida's health is just too appallingly low for me for me to brag with good conscience. Her lacking an entire Repair Party charge just feels mean. She's boasting not only tier VIII AA firepower at tier VII but good tier VIII firepower at tier VII. Once again, here are some dispersion tests. Yes, Florida is much cheaper than California because the cost of living is just 1% higher than the national average. In terms of pricing, Legoland Florida is slightly cheaper than Legoland California. Rather than look for something new or novel, Wargaming played it safe. WHEN: Monday, Feb. 27, 7 p.m. Look at all of this negative space! This is what happens when I scale the HE values to the same scale as the AP values. The order of ships shuffles a bit with German HE shells being terrible and British and Japanese HE shells doing more damage than you might otherwise expect for their calibre. Florida's HE performance remains unfortunate. However, given the troubles with her AP shells, you'll still be reaching for them often. 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. Skill Floor: Simple / Casual / CHALLENGING / DifficultSkill Ceiling: Low / Moderate / HIGH / Difficult. This ship is slow. You can find a Pow Wow somewhere close to you! Florida (on the left) using a standard dispersion test. This is 180 AP shells fired at a stationary Fuso bot. Shots are coming in from the left to right (Fuso is bow-tanking). California is on the right with the same parameters. California uses American battleship dispersion with 1.9 sigma versus Florida's battlecruiser dispersion with 1.7 sigma. Florida feels appreciably more accurate than most other American battleships, though her lower sigma value will make her feel only slightly better than ships like California or Arizona. Arizona sits just behind California in AP and HE DPM, but not so much that you'll notice in most cases. But given CA's epic history, it does irritate me to see so much love lavished on their napkinwaffe RU BB and KM CV lines, while CA gets this treatment. Once you start shooting atbroadside targets? She would have been a meme the way USS Texas used to be down at tier V. Now such AA firepower is merely an inconvenience to CVs. Florida Gov. Phenomenal AA power is watered down more heavily than American Lite Beer. 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. Deposit $200, Get $250. Thank you @LittleWhiteMouse. The Napoli is based on a preliminary design from Ansaldo for the Soviet Project 22 Heavy cruiser. WebThe water temperatures differ in California vs Florida beaches because of the different climates. DD's need their stealth back, or they need survivability. Big, punchy guns are a must. I prefer durability to agility, but I need one of those two elements to be present. If a battleship can't manage these things, they've got a big, uphill battle to win my affections. Some of them still manage it. Scharnhorst, for example, doesn't have the main battery guns to wow me, but she still pulls off a win between her secondaries, fish and the combination of speed and tankiness. I've tried to keep an open mind while play testing Florida, but good gravy, my time in her has not been pleasant. I'm under no illusions that this is very clearly a me problem. Florida herself is a well balanced ship. I just hate her. She doesn't have any one element of this trifecta that I enjoy in my battleships. Hard pass, ladies and gentlemen. While tier VI carriers have to respect your AA firepower they can still strike you. 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. This is why I prefer Lyon over them, but Gnei/Sharn are quite good for Narai too. Landing citadel hits against enemy battleships tends to fall off at ranges over 14km or so, but you should still be able to land penetrating hits through most belts you'll encounter. But so far CV's under the rework have mostly lacked that and are a farce. And finally, as nice as the extra damage is, these are still 356mm guns. She just isn't a must-have in my fleet, which for me makes her a don't-buy. I wouldn't be a Community Contributor (CC) if it weren't for Critter8. I'm not sure the WGNA CC-program would have even existed if it weren't for him. Back in 2015, before there was a Community Contributor program, content creators like myself worked unsupported by Wargaming in any capacity. The predecessor to the NA-CC program was Club Wargaming which promised the world and delivered nothing but a booger-green title on the forums. Club Wargaming included dozens of content creators which had sprung up during Closed and Open Beta, including some big names like @PhlyDaily. All of us were paying out of pocket to produce content or having to rely on donations from fans to get access to the newest premium content. Critter8 took exception to this. He had made Ship Comrade -- a fan site whose best early features included tracking Rank Battle progress and had one of (if not THE) first Captain Skill calculator. He took his fandom seriously and wanted a professional relationship with Wargaming to facilitate content production. North Florida are 4-1 in their last 5 games against the spread; North Florida are 5-12 in their road games against the spread; The totals have gone OVER in 3 of North Florida' last 5 games; The totals have gone OVER in 5 of North Florida' 11 last games at home They'd have to, after more than 4 years, maybe 5 at this point, adjust BB's to take slightly less damage from fires (instead of the 18% that has caused contention since day 1, more so after IFHE, knock it down to at least 15%, much as I'd prefer 12) which would help cut down on the actual need for survivability builds being standard. I have no idea why Wargaming didn't provide her with the tech-tree style energy preservation. The North Carolina Tar Heels (18-11, 10-8 ACC) and Florida State Seminoles (9-20, 7-11) tangle Monday in Tallahassee. In its win over Florida State on Monday night, UNC basketball set an all-time program record one that not many people probably saw coming. Maybe Repair Party needs to be a little less unique on cruisers, other than UK zombie type or other such quirks. Fair enough. The following is a review of USS Florida, the tier VII American premium battleship. I did not pay for this ship. It was provided to me by Wargaming for evaluation purposes. To the best of my knowledge, the statistics discussed in this review are current as of patch 0.9.9. Please be aware that her performance may change in the future. However, the premium standards Arizona, West Virginia 1941 and now California, all lack this boost. Mileage probably determined on if you want a premium USN BB for Narai or not. Though they would have to actually work on balancing CV's (a lot of ordnance damage needs to come down, AA needs to be fixed/balanced, plane regen/hanger needs to be worked on, etc) and bring back odd tiers before we get to that. Shells which fuse inside this bulge but outside of the hull spaces underneath result in zero damage penetrations. California isn't difficult to play. 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. I think she's too soft to be good enough to be a true BB and that makes it doubly hard when paired at top or mid tier where you are expected to be the beater for your team. This is why I frown on a difference of 0.1 sigma being used as a selling feature -- it's a "spreadsheet" value that will affect a ship over the course of several games but isn't likely to be significant within a single match. Time to load up on bath salts and eat the faces of cruisers. California faces a lot more opponents that can easily best her extremity and deck armour -- not only with battleship caliber AP but also HE spam from cruisers with enough base penetration to out-muscle her structural protection. In California, the water is generally warmer than in Florida. I think the best thing to examine is how worth it is the ship in not just randoms and ranked, but coop and ops. Furthermore, it's not going to put off a determined tier VIII carrier even for a moment. It's not high-velocity Soviet-good like Poltava's, though, nor does it have Duke of York's improved auto-ricochet angles (which shares the same penetration as KGV). After an impressive week that saw the Tigers go 3-1-1, Auburn begins a new week by welcoming in Florida A&M to Plainsman Park for a The sales tax in Florida is 6% whereas in California it is 7.25%. Summary so far: You're buying a longer-ranged Arizona. Has one fewer Repair Party charges than most other battleships. Small hit point pool for a tier VII battleship. For them and cruisers, reduced spotting time after firing is long over due. This doesn't look like a good ship at all. I think in this regard the ship is somewhat worth it. So California has good concealment! You can largely forget applying those brawling skills or getting to cap or even angling to mitigate damage -- it's just not applicable. Hood is listed without DFAA active, just know that the numbers shown here jump by 50% when she pulls the trigger. California has tier VI firepower with tier VII range. California's AP shells have higher penetration. That extra reach is an outright necessity to bring her guns into play before the battle moves on without her. I swear, she posts these right when I'm off to work now to give other people a chance to reply first :P. Take this review lightly. Granted I have California too (mostly due to 1. Base/Minimum Surface Detection: 13.86km / 12.1kmBase/Minimum Air Detection Range: 10.08km/9.07kmDetection Range When Firing in Smoke: 12.01kmMaximum Firing Range: Between 18.62km and 25.92km, Flordia's concealment values are pretty darned good. She doesn't quite get into that magical sub-12km surface detection range which is quite impressive for a battleship, but at least she gets close. Given her preferred engagement distance, it's pretty easy for this ship to drop off from detection range in typical encounters -- especially given her long reload. If she had a bit more grunt in her engines, controlling the engagement through use of her stealth would be a lot more feasible, but her 27 knot top speed just isn't enough to kite away from all of the battleships she faces, to say nothing of cruisers and destroyers.. Same with cruisers - they didn't have to cower behind islands like now, they could fire and fade away. I've sorted these by the formula of [ AA dps x { range - 1km} ]. It's not a perfect system but it does weight heavier, longer-ranged firepower over masses of short-ranged defence. So while California is an obvious gunnery upgrade over New Mexico, California is only a soft upgrade on Arizona. Absolutely. If for any particular reason I needa fast American battleship, I have Georgia.. California uses New Mexico's 356mm/50 caliber guns rather than Arizona's 356mm/45s. Despite constant suggestions to give her improved accuracy and/or range on her secondaries, Wargaming wouldn't budge on keeping them standardized. However you're paying for the improvements with very crappy gun fire angles. On the other hand, She's missing an ice-breaker bow like the aforementioned German ships. +1 upboat for the review. 1. North Florida are 4-1 in their last 5 games. Furthermore, that big 26mm area is just begging to receive hits from HE spam. Quick Summary: A tier VII, prototype version of the North Carolina-class battleship with twelve 356mm guns instead of nine 406mm guns. She's highly accurate but her guns don't hit very hard, even for 356mm rounds. On top of this, she's super squishy. Thanks (again) for this review. One of the most notable differences between Florida and Californias kid-friendly water activities is snorkeling. This ship has been provided to me by Wargaming for evaluation purposes -- I did not have to pay for this thing, which is a good thing because I would have felt offended had I shelled out money for this horribly mistreated piece of history. Still, she's not far removed from Arizona -- like, the differences are barely perceptible. 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. These are 180 shells fired at 15km locked onto the stationary Fuso bot. It's just a matter of making the ship fun and/or interesting to play. California isn't fun to play and that's her greatest crime. Simply put, it's the only thing which makes this ship viable as a tier VII vessel and even then it barely passes muster. California's shells have higher muzzle velocity. The Roma is performing fairly well compared to other tier 8 BB's and she is far from the strongest with some incredibly glaring weaknesses. 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%. Good anti-aircraft firepower, including access to. March 1, 2023 10:00 am CT. Auburn baseball plays Florida A&M on Wednesday evening, and if youre wondering how you can watch the action live, youve come to the right place. QueensFGCU. I HATE when people hinge whether they are going to buy a ship or not based on her reivew. As of December 2020, Floridas (preliminary) unemployment rate was at 6.1% while Californias was 9%. Her protection scheme is otherwise fine though her snoot is a huge weak spot. 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. By They have averaged 3.5 goals per game (35 total) over that stretch. Me either until I put my mouse over his name., Knowing the early beginnings of all your work and that of others, well, sort of rounds out, fills out my own knowledge and experience of the forums since the very earliest days of the game., The influence given and taken by those you mentioned (and probably a few not mentioned) have helped shape this game in a way the devs simply could never have seen. I have felt these three combined weaknesses acutely with Florida. I don't feel that they're enough to damn the ship, but they are very obviously weaknesses. Unlike the higher tiered sniper-battleships, Florida finds herself more often in claustrophobic maps where she cannot rely on simply out-ranging targets. She's asked to tank a lot more more than say, Champagne. Even when she does appear on larger maps, this comes with the threat of higher-tiered opponents and more overmatching guns so it's catch 22. Knowing which opponents you can face tank and which you can't are important. But so very often I was forced to show my cute butt and kite away when the pressure was on. Florida's not-good(ish) forward fire angles meant that firing all three turrets forward was just asking to have shells rammed into her stepped citadel. It was far safer to fight, firing over her shoulder with her forward turrets slinging shells to her rear., Being far more limited in what aggressive plays this ship can make hurts her carrying ability. Turning to fight will often just get you killed. It limits what decisive actions she can take. It's hard to be heroic if you're constantly forced to follow Sir Robin's playbook.. I dunno what's going on with California's turrets with her Freedom camouflage. Nothing can touch California, though, which sits smack in the middle of the tier VIII American BB range, rubbing elbows with Alabama, North Carolina and everyone's favourite: Massachusetts. As for the ship herself, WG pitched her at someone who wants a moderately fast (not quite 30kt, but not 20 either) US BB with lots of gun barrels at Tier 7. VERDICT: She's squishy -- squishier than the usual tier VII battleship and they struggle a lot with durability. Please be aware that her performance may change in the future. The property tax in Florida averages at 0.98% whereas in California it is 0.73%. Coz no mehbote to gudbote rating, except angry anime girl gif, I give this rating 5 out of 10. 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. And I'm a Native CAn. Would you prefer if they decided based on other CCs instead? Summary so far: California has absolutely amazing AA levels. Carriers must anticipate that she will always have Defensive AA Fire ready and it's best to bait its use by ducking in and out of her 5.8km bubble and then waiting it out, even if she's not your primary target. Florida is effectively a no-fly zone for tier VI carriers because of this consumable and raw AA power combination which is a pretty impressive boast. Add on a catapult fighter and Florida duplicates this for tier VIII carriers too, at least until she comes under sustained HE attack. Another review done really well. Queens are 9-8 in their road games against the spread. Long ranged with a starting reach of 19.9km which can be extended to as much as 27.7km between upgrades and consumables. She has said as much herself in the past. When it comes to my battleships, I know what I like. Wargaming burned me once too often in World of Tanks. California has a boring ol' 14% healed over 28s, not the 16.8% of the KGVs and Hood, the 40% Nelson or even Colorado's 18.48%. Tier for tier, Arizona is the better protected ship with her armour and hit points meaning more at tier VI than California's at tier VII. 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. Wow. There's a pretty hard cap on how far skill will take you with this ship. Without allies to road-block, California will be run down, sneaky or not. Tweak are play and all that way, far more interesting. This means for California to be worth her price tag, she's gotta make it up elsewhere. The Soviets infamously have it too. 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. In Florida, life is good. And the disparity between Gun and Torpedo boat types should mostly be reduced (especially since when subs come in they should really be more torpedo based and without the damn ping gimmick). Florida struggles even more. Don't brawl. You'll die. Based on our research, heres the ranking of states where average annual car insurance rates are the most expensive: Florida: $2,560. Delaware: $2,137. The tragic and horrific June 24 collapse of the Surfside Champlain Towers notwithstanding, the purplish-red sunshine state is dynamic, diverse, LOCATION: Donald L. Tucker Center in Tallahassee, Florida. The Wildcats score just 1.4 fewer points per game (67.4) than the Gators give up (68.8). Native Californian) but she is a slow girl relegated to sitting amongst the transports. You need to play a total of 20 battles to post in this section. 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. Lert really helped me appreciate the game play of the "American Bricks" way back in 2016. The 0.1 sigma difference is imperceptible in game play -- you couldn't tell the difference if you tried. Florida man, Florida man Guess the tune. I should preface this by saying that I love the American standard-type battleships. Solid rearward firing angles, well suited to kiting. Ron DeSantis exacts punishment, takes over Disney district on eve of book launch. follow. So, there are slow battleships in World of Warships and then there are the American premium standard-types. This is a booby prize in the current meta. When comparing living in California vs Florida, you should also be aware of the economy and job market of each state. U.S. News and World Report ranked Florida as the 8th best economy in America, with job growth at 2.4% per year, which is significantly higher than the national average of 1.4%. Deposit $200, Get $250. They decelerate like normal battleships. Before patch 0.8.0, the levels of AA firepower California puts out would have been formidable and worth celebrating. Both wins and 109k average damage. 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. USN could choose between type of plane, type of ordnance, etc. This is how ALL of your people should think! Louisiana: $2,546. 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 Flak Bursts: 5 explosions for 1400 damage per blast at 3.5km to 5.8km.Long Ranged (up to 5.8km): 157.5dps at 75% accuracyMedium Ranged (up to 4.0km): 269.5dps at 75% accuracyShort Ranged (up to 2.0km): 318.5dps at 70% accuracy. They could make West Virginia 1944 / 1945 fit at tier VIII for crying out loud. But that requires changes well beyond the skill tree, because if we went back 4+ years - sure Germany would still be king of secondary builds with it's 15 cm guns, but French and even ships like Mass would terrorize DD's and cruisers pushing in to caps with secondaries only worried about not getting torped for sailing in a straight line than 152 mm raining death from behind an island - unless it was aiming at the superstructure. Thank you for the preemptive warning, I meanreview on this one. They could have made California powerful. I want to head off any impulse purchases and warn players that they're not getting a ship worthy of California's name. Instead, she has Gun Fire Control Modification 1 which increases her main battery gun range. She conforms to the norms for American battleships. Florida's secondaries are too short ranged to be worth specializing into. They also lack the accuracy buff that makes Massachusetts and Georgia such units. These twin factors are enough to discourage anyone from spending skills or upgrade slots on them, to say nothing of Florida's durability issues (which I will [edited] about at length below)..
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