You do that and you're getting rekt in her. Just like I remember seeing some CC/ST Champagne videos where they played aggressively like they would any other Battleship, you will see a bunch of Captain Average Joes do the same with Florida. (using a MS22 camo mod replacer, the camo you see on here isn't what's sold with the ship) I'm betting you are finding a bunch of owners that are trying to play Florida like it was a normal Battleship.Īnd if they try to play it like a Battleship, i.e. what does she do better than say the scharnhorts, lyon or kgv in particular? I have faced them alot as of late and i don t find the florida too impressive in any way.

And protect your Citadel, this is not a ship for those players that get lazy about protecting that aspect of their ship. Gunnery felt good when I tried her out in Narai multiple times at close and longer ranges. But if the shells go astray and land on the 26mm upper hull sides or 25mm bow, you're in trouble if they're 380mm+ AP coming at you. You can try to angle and hope the big AP shells land and get bounced off your armor belt. Florida's Citadel isn't as tall as those old ones were, but it's high enough and poorly protected. We have not seen a squishier USN Battleship like this since Iowa, Montana, Missouri had their tall skyscraper Citadels. I promise you, if you go in trying to play as if you were in a regular battleship, or worse, thinking you're protected like North Carolina just because you look like her, sail as fast as her, you're going to get your sh*t pushed in. 'Florida is a representative of the same battleships sub-class as Champagne and Slava: she has good accuracy, but weak armor and a relatively high-sitting citadel.'

WG intended Florida to be a Tier VII version of Champagne.

But you can see values regarding shells, armor, citadel, etc. What I spec'd Florida for isn't ideal for Randoms, it is for the confines of Operation Narai (PVE). That was done for a PVE thread when someone was considering California or Florida for the purpose of PVE. Some information in my post below regarding California if you want to see stuff on the shells, armor values, Citadel, etc.

World of warships florida review