Ship:Gorizia

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Gorizia

Cruiser | Italy | Tier VII

Tech Tree Position

General

Purchase priceSpecial

Hit Points37,100

Main Battery

203 mm/53 Model 1927 on a Model 1927 mount4 х 2 pcs.

Rate of Fire4 shots/min

Reload Time15 sec

Rotation Speed7 deg/sec

180 Degree Turn Time25.7 sec

Firing Range15.6 km

Maximum Dispersion140 m

AP Shell203 mm proiettili AP 1927

Maximum AP Shell Damage4,800

Initial AP Shell Velocity900 m/s

AP Shell Weight125.3 kg

Maximum SAP Shell Damage5050

Initial SAP Shell Velocity900 m/s

Secondary Armament #1

100 mm/47 Model 1924/27/28 on a Eugenio Minisini mount8 х 2 pcs.

Firing Range5.6 km

Rate of Fire10 shots/min

Reload Time6 sec

HE Shell100 mm proiettili HE

Maximum HE Shell Damage1,500

Initial HE Shell Velocity850 m/s

Chance of Fire on Target Caused by HE Shell6 %

AA Defense

13.2 mm/76 Breda Model 1931 on a twin mount4 х 2 pcs.

40 mm/39 Vickers-Terni Model 1917 on a single mount4 х 1 pcs.

100 mm/47 Model 1924/27/28 on a Eugenio Minisini mount8 х 2 pcs.

Maneuverability

Maximum Speed33 knot

Turning Circle Radius580 m

Rudder Shift Time9.8 sec

Concealment

Surface Detectability Range13.5 km

Air Detectability Range7 km

Battle Levels

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VII

Special

Gorizia — Italian special premium Tier VII cruiser.

A heavy Zara-class cruiser. Ships of this class were designed to confront the weakly protected cruisers that were built after the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922. At the time of their entry into service, they had the best armor among ships of their type. The international displacement-limiting treaties, which were still in force during the ship's construction, were the reason why no torpedo weaponry was mounted on her.

Modules

	Rate of Fire (shots/min)	180° Turn Time (sec)	Maximum Dispersion (m)	Maximum HE Shell Damage (HP)	Chances of HE shells causing a fire on target (%)	Maximum AP Shell Damage (HP)		Research price (exp)	Purchase price ()
203 mm/53 Model 1927 on a Model 1927 mount	4	25.7	140			4,800		0	0

	Hit Points (HP)	Armor (mm)	Armor (mm)	Main Turrets (pcs.)	Secondary Gun Turrets (pcs.)	AA Mounts (pcs.)	Torpedo Tubes (pcs.)	Hangar Capacity (pcs.)		Research price (exp)	Purchase price ()
Gorizia	37,100	13	150	4	8	4/4/8				0	0

	IDS_SHIP_PARAM_SUO_INCREASE_DIST (%)	Maximum Firing Range (km)		Research price (exp)	Purchase price ()
SDT 7 mod.1		0		0	0

	Maximum Speed (knot)		Research price (exp)	Purchase price ()
Propulsion: 95,000 hp	33		0	0

Compatible Upgrades

Slot 1
Slot 2
Slot 3
Slot 4

Player Opinion

Performance

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Sitting at Tier VII, Italian premium heavy cruiser Gorizia is nearly identical to Zara, sharing the same hull and gun set up as her tech tree sister. Captains familiar with Zara will recognize Gorizia’s excellent ballistics and maneuverability, as well as her access to the Exhaust Smoke Generator . The key difference between the two ships is that in exchange for the long-range torpedoes normally found on Italian cruisers, Gorizia has access to the Hydroacoustic Search  consumable.

Gorizia is armed with eight 203-millimeter guns in a 4x2 configuration that load either SAP or AP shells. Despite having one of the worst guns at Tier VII dpm wise, the alpha strike potential and the characteristics of her shells make up for it. These shells leave her barrel at an astounding 900 meters per second making them difficult to dodge. Her SAP shells can penetrate up to 54 millimeters of armor, posing a significant threat to enemy destroyers and cruisers. It is not uncommon to see 7-8k chunks being taken off enemy cruisers and destroyers that fall prey to Gorizia’s SAP. Gorizia’s AP shells, while having above average penetration values, are underwhelming as they cease to be effective if the enemy gives an angle. As such, the ammo type of choice should be the SAP shells, only switching to AP against enemy cruisers that are showing flat broadside.

Gorizia enjoys a 70mm citadel roof, ensuring that battleship shells that penetrate through her deck have little to no chance of reaching her citadel. In addition, her midsection is protected with a 30mm armor plate, capable of bouncing large caliber battleship shells when properly angled. However, her bow and stern plating is only 16 millimeters. Thus, when engaged with an enemy battleship, captains should attempt to dodge in such a way as to either avoid the enemy shells entirely or to have them hit her angled midsection.

Cruiser captains will be delighted to discover that Gorizia turns on a dime, with a turning circle of 580 meters - one of the most maneuverable cruisers at Tier VII. This can be used to make her a difficult target to hit, as she weaves in and out of shells and torpedoes on a moment’s notice.

What sets Gorizia apart from the rest of the Italian cruisers is her access to a Hydroacoustic Search  consumable with a range of 6km, the best at her tier. This consumable, when used in tandem with her standard Italian Exhaust Smoke consumable and her SAP makes Gorizia a potent hit and run destroyer killer.

All in all, Gorizia can be best described as a side grade over her tech tree counterpart Zara. Her hydroacoustic search offers an aggressive play style and helps her specialize in killing enemy destroyers and cruisers.

Pros:

• Large health pool
• Great armor profile featuring 30mm side plating and a 70mm citadel roof
• Has semi-armor piercing (SAP) ammunition, which is effective against destroyers and cruisers
• Great gun firing angles
• Great shell ballistics
• Above average penetration on armor piercing shells
• Comfortable handling featuring an excellent turning circle
• Has access to Hydroacoustic Search , unlike most Italian cruisers

Cons:

• Doesn't have access to HE, making her less effective against heavily protected targets such as battleships
• Abysmal gun dpm
• Below average gun firing range at 15.5km
• No torpedoes
• Extremely short ranged aa defenses
• Poor concealment
  

Research

As a premium ship, Gorizia doesn't have any upgrades to research.

Optimal Configuration

Upgrades

The recommended upgrades for Gorizia are as follows:

• Slot 1: Main Armaments Modification 1
• Slot 2: Engine Room Protection or Hydroacoustic Search Modification 1
• Slot 3: Aiming Systems Modification 1
• Slot 4: Propulsion Modification 1

Commander Skills

Recommended Commander Skills
Cost (points)	Attack				Defense
1	Grease the Gears +15% main battery traverse speed. ★	Swift Fish +5% torpedo speed.	Consumable Specialist −7.5% cooldown time of all Consumables except:  Damage Control Party   Repair Party .	Gun Feeder -40% time to switch shell type. ★★★	Incoming Fire Alert Receive a warning of a salvo fired at your ship from more than 4.5km. ★★	Last Stand The ship remains able to move and maneuver - slowly - while the engine or steering gears are incapacitated.
2	Demolition Expert +1% chance of main and secondary HE shells causing a fire. +15% to the fragmentation damage area of HE ordnance fired at submarines.	Fill the Tubes -10% torpedo tubes reload time.	Consumables Enhancements +10% action time of Hydroacoustic Search, Surveillance Radar, Smoke Generator, & Engine Boost.	Eye in the Sky Spotting Aircraft: • +2 charges • -50% cooldown time. ★★	Priority Target The detection indicator will show the number of enemies targeting you with main battery. ★★	Focus Fire Training In an active priority AA sector: •  +1.5% (to 5%) immediate damage. •  +25% continuous damage. •  +1 flak burst per salvo. −10% aircraft preparation time. −15% reload time of Airstrike armament..
3	Heavy HE and SAP Shells +10% HE and SAP shell damage. +15% ship detectability guns 149mm and up. ★★	Pack a Punch +15% torpedo damage. +20% secondary battery range..	Adrenaline Rush -0.2% reload time of all armaments per 1% HP lost +0.2% AA continuous damage per 1% HP lost. ★★★	Heavy AP Shells +5% damage for AP shells 190mm and larger.	Superintendent +1 charge to all consumables. ★★★	Survivability Expert +450 HP per ship tier. ★★
4	Top Grade Gunner -10% reload time of secondary batteries If enemy ship is spotted within detectability range, -8% reload time of main battery. ★	Outnumbered If there are fewer allies than visible enemies within the ship's base main caliber firing range: +8% ship speed -10% main battery dispersion.	Radio Location Shows the direction to the nearest enemy ship. The enemy is alerted that a bearing has been taken..	Inertial Fuse for HE Shells +25% armor penetration of HE shells Base fire chance reduced by half.	Concealment Expert -10% detectability range of the ship. ★★★	AAA & ASW Expert +25% continuous AA and flak damage. +15% damage inflicted by depth charges. While AAA is active: −50% ship consumables reload time..
Key: ★★★ - Extremely Useful      ★★ - Frequently Useful      ★ - Occasionally Useful     No stars - Not Useful

Consumables

Gorizia can equip the following consumables:

• Slot 1: Damage Control Party 
• Slot 2: Exhaust Smoke Generator 
• Slot 3: Spotting Aircraft 
• Slot 4: Hydroacoustic Search 

Camouflage

As a premium ship, Gorizia comes with Default permanent camouflage and a set of permanent combat bonuses.

Signals

Recommended Signal Flags
Combat
Charlie Kilo +5% ship HP; +2.5% squadron HP.	Juliet Yankee Bissotwo -20% to flooding duration. ★	India Yankee -20% to fire duration. ★	Hotel Yankee -20% to damage received when ramming the enemy. +50% to damage dealt when ramming the enemy. ★	Victor Lima +1% chance for HE bombs and shells with a caliber above 160mm causing a fire. +0.5% chance for bombs and smaller shells causing a fire. +4% chance of torpedoes causing flooding.	India X-Ray +1% chance for HE bombs and shells with a caliber above 160mm causing a fire. +0.5% chance for bombs and smaller shells causing a fire.
Juliet Whiskey Unaone +15% chance of causing flooding.	Mike Yankee Soxisix +5% to secondary battery maximum firing range. -5% to maximum dispersion of secondary battery shells. -5% to secondary battery loading time.	November Echo Setteseven +5% continuous AA damage at all ranges. +5% damage from flak bursts.	Sierra Mike +5% to the ship's maximum speed. ★★	November Foxtrot -5% reload time on all consumables. ★★	India Delta +20% to the amount of HP recovered when Repair Party  is used.
X-Ray Papa Unaone +10% action time of a Smoke Generator . ★★★	Sierra Bravo +10% action time of Hydroacoustic Search  -10% reload time of Defensive AA Fire . ★★★

Gallery

Historical Info

Gorizia was the fourth and final member of the Zara class of heavy cruisers to be built for the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy) in the 1930s. Named for the town of Gorizia, the ship was laid down at the OTO Livorno shipyard in March 1930, was launched in December that year and was commissioned into the fleet in December 1931. Armed with a main battery of eight 8-inch (200 mm) guns, she was nominally within the 10,000-long-ton (10,000 t) limit imposed by the Washington Naval Treaty, though in reality she significantly exceeded this figure.
During the ship's peacetime career, she frequently took part in fleet reviews. In 1934, she went on a tour with the royal yacht to eastern Africa, and she made another foreign cruise two years later to Germany during the 1936 Summer Olympics being held there. She was involved in the Spanish Civil War in the late 1930s; she evacuated Italian nationals in August 1936, and while returning to Italy, suffered an explosion in an aviation gas tank that necessitated major repairs. The ship supported the Italian invasion of Albania in 1939.
The ship saw extensive service in World War II, which Italy entered in June 1940. She frequently operated against British convoys to Malta in the Mediterranean, and after the North African Campaign began, she escorted Italian convoys to support the Italo-German forces fighting there. In the course of these operations, she took part in the battles at Calabria, Cape Spartivento, and First and Second Sirte. Gorizia was also attacked numerous times by Allied bombers while in port, culminating in a major raid in April 1943 that inflicted serious damage to the ship. Under repair when Italy surrendered to the Allies in September, the ship was seized by occupying Germany forces, who found the ship to be unusable and so abandoned her. Italian and British frogmen tried unsuccessfully to sink the ship in 1944. After Germany's defeat in 1945, the Italian Navy determined the ship was beyond economical repair, and so she was broken up for scrap in 1947.

In-game historical inaccuracies

• Gorizia is represented only in her original 1931 condition.
• HE ammunition is missing; the SAP shell is a fabrication by WG.
• "Claudus" camouflage scheme was first applied to Gorizia in early 1942; Gorizia had no camouflage in 1931.
• "Grigio-azzurro chiaro" paint scheme is missing. This can only be found on Zara which is essentially the tech tree version of Gorizia (identical in-game model but unhistorical AA and torpedoes).
• In-game description falsely claims that Gorizia was commissioned in 1932, when in fact it was in 1931. It was her sister ship Pola that was commissioned in 1932.

Historical Gallery

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  Gorizia, date unknown
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  Gorizia at a pre-war fleet review
• 
  Gorizia painted in dazzle camouflage in 1942
• 
  Gorizia firing her main battery during the Second Battle of Sirte
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  Gorizia abandoned at the end of the war.

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References

1. Italian cruiser Gorizia - Wikipedia
2. Zara-class cruiser - Wikipedia
3. Armada: Gorizia - News - World of Warships
4. Armada: Gorizia - World of Warships Official Channel - YouTube

Ship Change Log

• Available for testing by supertesters in the game starting from Update 0.8.9.

Testing Changes

• Sept 13, 2019:
  • Preliminary characteristics.
• Nov 7, 2019:
  • Reload time of Exhaust Smoke Generator decreased from 240 (180) to 210 (140) s.
  • Parameters of Hydroacoustic Search changed:
    • Action time increased from 100 to 120 s.
    • Torpedo detection range increased from 3.5 to 4 km.
    • Ship detection range increased from 5 to 6 km.
• Nov 29, 2019:
  • Main battery reload time decreased from 16.5 to 15 s.

• Starting in Update 0.8.11, the ship could be obtained by completing 5 tasks of the third directive of the "New Year" event or purchased in the Premium Shop.
• Update 0.9.2:
  • The armor thickness was changed: the central section was reinforced from 16 to 25 mm.
• Update 0.9.5:
  • Small changes to geometry and textures.
• Update 0.9.6:
  • Fixed a bug due to which the names of the rear and frontal plates of the main battery turrets were reversed.
• Update 0.10.0:
  • The firing range of the secondary battery was increased to 5.6 km.
• Update 0.11.1:
  • Minor corrections to geometry and textures of the ship.
• Update 13.0:
  • Fixed Commander skill recommendations for the ship.

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