The reason they looked at the horses teeth is because you can tell the age of the horse fairly accurately by their teeth. The angle of the horse's teeth change as they age. Also the term long in the tooth (being older) comes from looking at a horse teeth.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Claus. The old adage of "Never Look a gift Horse in the Mouth", meant to be thankful that you had a horse. The reason that they checked the Teeth, was to determine the age of the horse
Good morning, all!! Another entertaining start to the day. If ya all have time check out Claus's Pov video on the storm damage, he has some work ahead. little more than 11mm of snow this time. Cheers!!
I’ve played it enough to confirm Skill’s assessment. 1. For a tier 9 medium it is too slow. 2. Its armor is non-existent. 3. It has extremely low pen for a tier 9. 4. Its gun handling requires vert stabs. 5. It’s has a low premium multiplier for credits. There are so many great tier 9 mediums that playing this just seems bad. I mean, just look at literally every stat for the Char(red) Futur 4 as comparison and it becomes apparent this tank is a waste of time.
WG should consider making this requirement. It should be required that in order to purchase or receive a premium tank, free tank or reward tank, a tech tree tank of that tier and nation needs to be fully researched beforehand.
Personally I think this GSOR is not that bad. It has 268 regular pen and the Hesh its basically a bit worse centurion 7/1. This thing also has 11 degrees gun depression and the turret armour can give you a few bounces
It's not that bad a tank I think the weird thing is that as Claus pointed out everyone has one now from the lowest skilled to the highest skilled player...
It's actually not a bad tank, but I must admit, I have used this current matchmaker to finish 3 marking a lot of my tier 9s, suddenly my average damage per game has jumped up by a few thousand due to people just driving out in the open in these things.
A "gift horse in the mouth" goes back to the Trojan Horse of Troy. More modern usage is that you can tell the age of a horse by its teeth. This also works with cows, goats, sheep and any other large mammal that forages for food. Their back teeth will be severely worn from excessive chewing. I use this method to tell the age of the deer I harvest every year.
There's always a reason that Wargaming issue a high tier free gift and this one might be to sell more GSOR 1008 with the autoloader. About the only good point for the 1008 is that the top speed is 60, the camo is better and it has burst alpha of 1280 but that's about all you will get as you won't complete a reload before you are savaged by enemy mediums.
You can't look a gift horse in the mouth. I think that means, if you receive a gift, it's better to receive it. Also I think it might be a trojan horse reference, where the troops were inside a giant hollow horse.
I just started playing again for the Christmas stuff, always did like their Christmas celebration, even got some boxes one year. Sadly, I really dont play tier 9's or 10's anymore so I haven't even equipped that tank, it would just be a waste of credits, just like playing in those tiers is. Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas Claus.
its another tier 9 premium that is literally almost carbon-copy of the Patton tank i would sell this but 1000 credits is not enough for the pain i suffered through this guy playing about 12 battles in it
"People that occasionally play their daddies accounts" - that's me. I grew out of enjoying world of tanks, I now have different priorities. But this Christmas, I gave my 10 year old daughter my World of Tanks account - I don't really care what happens to what I've managed to achieve on that account. If it brings my daughter joy - all the better. But already she can tell that high tier battles are not for her. At least not yet.
i have not taken it out on the field yet, mainly bc i like to see some vids of people playing it first.Also i like to wait for the grace period to be over to see what happens.I will say though this tank is far better than the free tank we got last year just from watching it on the field
06:27 ... as a dedicated SPG player, when they nerfed HE, it really made getting those 8K+ damage games tough. I mean come on, you hit a modern M1 Abrams with a 155mm HE shell IRL right in "the screen" and the turret is getting evaporated (Ukrainians are finding this out the hard way). Hit a wheeled BTR-82A with a 152mm or 155mm HE shell and the entire vehicle is gone regardless of where it hits. Hit the wheel? Scrap metal. Hit the turret in the strongest armor? Vaporized into little bits. I'm not saying WoT is real life sims, but the nerf of HE really took it a bit too far, especially for the big guns like the "Death Star"... that 183mm gun should be able to disintegrate any vehicle the shell hits.
I played it, third battle got the honeymoon RNG, fired the HESH and did 3200 damage in total, probably won't get any better than that, I will keep it but won't play it often, can use it for crew training at least
Claus, merry Christmas! I got the tank, who knows when I'll try it ... I'm pretty much FTP .. but got some boxes this year. I admit it, I've come down to being a clicker, and ruining folks day.
For a Christmas gift I bought my aunt (yes, my 71 year-old aunt plays WoT) a 28 Large Holiday Box present for her. I know WG says every 50 boxes guarantees a tier 8 or 9 premium tank, but it still works off of odds. In those 28 Large Boxes she got 90k gold and three premiums (two tier 8 and the Toro tier 9). The odds were in her favor. Thing is, she admits she sucks at the game due to arthritis in her fingers, so rarely plays tiers 8+, but decided to take a low-perked crew out in her new fancy tanks and she said she did better than she's ever done at tiers 8 and 9. Say what you will about those boxes, but once you get duplicates of the lower tier tanks they turn to extra gold. She now has an additional 6 months of premium time, all that extra gold and some tanks that (until they are nefed) bring in some bonds when she does well in a battle. Due to how well she did with those gifted boxes, she went ahead and fell for the trap and spend another $45 for 28 more boxes and got one more tier 8 premium and a ton more gold. With those mineral resources she converted them to tokens and got needed supplies through the terminal in the holiday village. Unlike loot boxes from other games, these holiday boxes give you something useable with each box. I'm not saying go into debt getting these, but maybe give them a try if you're short on gold. You get more gold through the boxes for less money than just buying gold and you get other useful items in the boxes. Last year's holiday boxes were garbage compared to this year.
I find it a reasonable tank to play hull down although I max my maneuverability with my equipment as you can get caught out by lites. It is much better than last year's freebie Patton. As you say early days as with all these new tier 9 players you are not playing against tier 10's very much, at least not on the Asia server where I play.
Many, many years ago, I had a teammate in an American T34 tier8 premnium Tank very poorly. Checked account and he only played about 300 battles. That's hundreds not thousands.
I'm not in a rush to play the free tank. Regardless, it's a nice Freebie. I rarely use HE due to the low pen I get, most times. I stick w/regular ammo and try to get as many credits as possible. Love ur Vids. Have a Fantastic Holiday and "BottomsUp"
the 10-day login requirement started on the 20th and today is the 22cd - how do so many have this tank already? I also saw it in the game before I had my first login for it -
You've got youtubers saying the tank sucks which is wrong it's just a support Heavy. Play it as an Assault Heavy and yes you'll have a bad day. They same idiots that look at the stats of these Christmas tanks and win-rate, even though 90% of those games were driven by complete noobs from the open public, of course the stats are low. It could be the best tank in WoT and would still have sub 50% win-rate.
I still aint played the last free tier 9 tank . If im battling that high up the tree its because im grinding out a tier 10. My sweet spot is tier 6 for kicking back and having fun. Top tiers people tend to get more serious and whiney if you dont preform how they expect you to preform and usually it seens like they'll literally blame a loss on you rather than the other 14 monkeys in battle that died without even hitting anything
I downloaded the game, logged in, got like 7 new tanks for 14 or so years of service, some tokens and whatever, felt like the game just vomited shit at me. And then I logged out.
I got 2 kills on my first match with this when both teams had about 8. I assume a lot of newbs were playing them rather than a surge of skill on my part.
I like Tier II-III games. They're still fun. People are derping around and doing goofy stuff and it's all shits & giggles. High tiers are boring. Static camping from optimized positions and the team that blinks first loses.
Yuri iz teim for gift tenkski. Da da da vee flood duh serverskiz with long reload tank so players can dynamically stare at each other for long awkward periods of timeski. Also we geeve it HESKski so they can not do damage. In rasscha gift is sh33tski sammich
Yes i got it. Spent about hour looking wot over then went back to wows. Wot has so much crap involved i started to remember how friggin grindy it is like war thunder
You can estimate the age of a horse by checking the Galvayne's groove in the teeth. If it's a 'gift horse' it would not be proper to do this. It's a gift, right?
Wait 6 months, most will be gone or stay in the garage. Of course in 6 months I will have quit playing for 5 months, I only check in very occasionally!
and just like every other tank that WarGAYming "gives away" it is a total piece of sh*t. I played it last night for 3 games. That's all that I could stand.
As an arty playerr i have seen them scoot around very often after they where given. It whas fun to watch them fall off of clifs, beeing in the wrong possition and see them complain in GC. 😂😂😂
cant stand the current state of WoT. Game is beyond salvation. WG can give away 100 free tanks, wont save the game. I'll still watch Claus though make fun of the muppets. Claus makes WoT fun again.
The reason they looked at the horses teeth is because you can tell the age of the horse fairly accurately by their teeth. The angle of the horse's teeth change as they age. Also the term long in the tooth (being older) comes from looking at a horse teeth.
Very informativve!
Hello Mr. Claus. I'm the guy from first game. Tnx for share :)
Great job on that game.
@ruined2595 tnx mate
... and you didn't title your replay "Baby LOOK!!! Come on Quicky, looky-looky at my gameplay!"
And we appreciate that you didn't cry out for Baby.
@@johnathansaegal3156 do i look like that for real? Jesus... i have my channel, i post my own replays dude...
@@madjar10 Well played mate, I learned a few things :)
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Claus.
The old adage of "Never Look a gift Horse in the Mouth", meant to be thankful that you had a horse. The reason that they checked the Teeth, was to determine the age of the horse
it is less of a prank than the patton
mine didnt come with cup holders
bets on how "premium ammo avoider" will do in this tank. do you think he uninstalls or sells it and sticks to tier 2 & 3s.
I need more
Preimum ammo avoider...it's fucking more gold in lower tier then high tier now adays
Merry Christmas Claus.
Good morning, all!! Another entertaining start to the day. If ya all have time check out Claus's Pov video on the storm damage, he has some work ahead. little more than 11mm of snow this time. Cheers!!
I’ve played it enough to confirm Skill’s assessment.
1. For a tier 9 medium it is too slow.
2. Its armor is non-existent.
3. It has extremely low pen for a tier 9.
4. Its gun handling requires vert stabs.
5. It’s has a low premium multiplier for credits.
There are so many great tier 9 mediums that playing this just seems bad. I mean, just look at literally every stat for the Char(red) Futur 4 as comparison and it becomes apparent this tank is a waste of time.
But still concider the "generosity" out of Wargaming to give a tank FOR FREE to its player base.
I can't wait for premium ammo avoider to play his
WG should consider making this requirement.
It should be required that in order to purchase or receive a premium tank, free tank or reward tank, a tech tree tank of that tier and nation needs to be fully researched beforehand.
Merry Clausmas
Santa Claus
Personally I think this GSOR is not that bad. It has 268 regular pen and the Hesh its basically a bit worse centurion 7/1. This thing also has 11 degrees gun depression and the turret armour can give you a few bounces
It's not that bad a tank I think the weird thing is that as Claus pointed out everyone has one now from the lowest skilled to the highest skilled player...
Wait a minute, my gift horse has no teeth!!! ❤
Hello, greetings from Australia, and Merry Christmas Claus
one good thing about it is it has 11 degrees of gun depression. not bad for a ridgeline of you can pull off an occasional bounce off the turret.
I think the MM from the first battle resembles some games when the Type 59 was first released (except it wasn't free).
Merry Christmas Claus. And happy bad hair day, lol
AND THERE THEY GO.. TIER 9 BUSH SITTERS.. OH HOW THE UPPER TIERS LOVE TO GO AND SIT.. DRIVES ME CRAZY..
It's actually not a bad tank, but I must admit, I have used this current matchmaker to finish 3 marking a lot of my tier 9s, suddenly my average damage per game has jumped up by a few thousand due to people just driving out in the open in these things.
A "gift horse in the mouth" goes back to the Trojan Horse of Troy. More modern usage is that you can tell the age of a horse by its teeth. This also works with cows, goats, sheep and any other large mammal that forages for food. Their back teeth will be severely worn from excessive chewing. I use this method to tell the age of the deer I harvest every year.
Hello, greetings from Brasil, and Merry Christmas Claus
remember when you would say "does your team have an object?". next years tier 9 reward could be Object the Tank
Hello, greetings from Poland, and Merry Christmas .
Poland - worst nation players in EU
Greetings to Poland from New England! 😊
All new players with new account that complete the beginners thingy gets a free tier 6 tank.
It's like Lakeville. "HEY EVERYONE, LET'S GET TRAPPED IN A MUDDY HOLE KILLBOX"
For to say. Good morning Claus.
There's always a reason that Wargaming issue a high tier free gift and this one might be to sell more GSOR 1008 with the autoloader. About the only good point for the 1008 is that the top speed is 60, the camo is better and it has burst alpha of 1280 but that's about all you will get as you won't complete a reload before you are savaged by enemy mediums.
You can't look a gift horse in the mouth. I think that means, if you receive a gift, it's better to receive it. Also I think it might be a trojan horse reference, where the troops were inside a giant hollow horse.
At least this time its not just a free garage slot ...
As an arty player I luv seeing these things, they're easy to kill. Even if you don't kill it, it's good for 900 damage with one hit.
clicker says what?
@@mayhem_1sob120 You like your team clicker when he saves your azss
@@frankenstone804 My words exactly. XD
They hate em when it shoots them, but love them when they save their back.
@@frankenstone804 never happened your arty azss stunned me more like
@@ArmoredsoldierCZ indeed
Wait a minute, my gift horse is made of wood... - And it has a note saying from: Lucas A. Nast
Soo many new tanks I literally have not had a chance to play them all yet.
Gee, maybe next time, battles just like a REAL tank fight... one side gets all M1A1s, the other side gets all T-72s...
I just started playing again for the Christmas stuff, always did like their Christmas celebration, even got some boxes one year.
Sadly, I really dont play tier 9's or 10's anymore so I haven't even equipped that tank, it would just be a waste of credits, just like playing in those tiers is.
Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas Claus.
You seem more on form today than yesterday. Nice video Claus.
with the new crew skills hesh rounds pen slightly more, so its not that bad of a tank, long reload, but not to bad for a free tank.
its another tier 9 premium that is literally almost carbon-copy of the Patton tank
i would sell this but 1000 credits is not enough for the pain i suffered through this guy playing about 12 battles in it
I like the GSOR. So far it has been very good for me.
"People that occasionally play their daddies accounts" - that's me. I grew out of enjoying world of tanks, I now have different priorities. But this Christmas, I gave my 10 year old daughter my World of Tanks account - I don't really care what happens to what I've managed to achieve on that account. If it brings my daughter joy - all the better. But already she can tell that high tier battles are not for her. At least not yet.
i have not taken it out on the field yet, mainly bc i like to see some vids of people playing it first.Also i like to wait for the grace period to be over to see what happens.I will say though this tank is far better than the free tank we got last year just from watching it on the field
It was nice of the VK45.02B to angle his armour, otherwise the GSOR probably wouldn't have been able to pen him.
06:27 ... as a dedicated SPG player, when they nerfed HE, it really made getting those 8K+ damage games tough. I mean come on, you hit a modern M1 Abrams with a 155mm HE shell IRL right in "the screen" and the turret is getting evaporated (Ukrainians are finding this out the hard way). Hit a wheeled BTR-82A with a 152mm or 155mm HE shell and the entire vehicle is gone regardless of where it hits. Hit the wheel? Scrap metal. Hit the turret in the strongest armor? Vaporized into little bits.
I'm not saying WoT is real life sims, but the nerf of HE really took it a bit too far, especially for the big guns like the "Death Star"... that 183mm gun should be able to disintegrate any vehicle the shell hits.
In most cases, the Abraham crew survive to find another tank. Even against high caliber arty shells, which can't be said about the soviet made tank.
I played it, third battle got the honeymoon RNG, fired the HESH and did 3200 damage in total, probably won't get any better than that, I will keep it but won't play it often, can use it for crew training at least
Well that's matches the flood of x Mas 12t amx lights which is hysterical as I mentioned this concept years ago in WOTB
Claus, merry Christmas! I got the tank, who knows when I'll try it ... I'm pretty much FTP .. but got some boxes this year.
I admit it, I've come down to being a clicker, and ruining folks day.
For a Christmas gift I bought my aunt (yes, my 71 year-old aunt plays WoT) a 28 Large Holiday Box present for her. I know WG says every 50 boxes guarantees a tier 8 or 9 premium tank, but it still works off of odds.
In those 28 Large Boxes she got 90k gold and three premiums (two tier 8 and the Toro tier 9). The odds were in her favor. Thing is, she admits she sucks at the game due to arthritis in her fingers, so rarely plays tiers 8+, but decided to take a low-perked crew out in her new fancy tanks and she said she did better than she's ever done at tiers 8 and 9.
Say what you will about those boxes, but once you get duplicates of the lower tier tanks they turn to extra gold. She now has an additional 6 months of premium time, all that extra gold and some tanks that (until they are nefed) bring in some bonds when she does well in a battle.
Due to how well she did with those gifted boxes, she went ahead and fell for the trap and spend another $45 for 28 more boxes and got one more tier 8 premium and a ton more gold. With those mineral resources she converted them to tokens and got needed supplies through the terminal in the holiday village.
Unlike loot boxes from other games, these holiday boxes give you something useable with each box. I'm not saying go into debt getting these, but maybe give them a try if you're short on gold. You get more gold through the boxes for less money than just buying gold and you get other useful items in the boxes.
Last year's holiday boxes were garbage compared to this year.
It's more what premium tanks should be like - balanced, rather than OP-shit-on-lower-tier waggons
Saw one particularly clueless player in new gsor.....after battle that we lost ofc i checked his acc.....20 battles total....
I find it a reasonable tank to play hull down although I max my maneuverability with my equipment as you can get caught out by lites.
It is much better than last year's freebie Patton.
As you say early days as with all these new tier 9 players you are not playing against tier 10's very much, at least not on the Asia server where I play.
Many, many years ago, I had a teammate in an American T34 tier8 premnium Tank very poorly. Checked account and he only played about 300 battles. That's hundreds not thousands.
I'm not in a rush to play the free tank. Regardless, it's a nice Freebie. I rarely use HE due to the low pen I get, most times. I stick w/regular ammo and try to get as many credits as possible. Love ur Vids. Have a Fantastic Holiday and "BottomsUp"
Point of clarification. You check a horses teeth to determine how old they are.
The Beach Noobs are back
beach is fun
Merry Christmas
They took the HE rounds and nerfed the splash damage and such, and now it's called FU!
I wouldn't necessarily call someone who puts "Pudding and Tea" as directives in their tank a beginner.
the 10-day login requirement started on the 20th and today is the 22cd - how do so many have this tank already? I also saw it in the game before I had my first login for it -
Exactly that's the problem so now new players that's has 10 games in their account got free tier 9 tank and the game is ruined
a lot of tourists playing in their only tier IX
It’s actually not bad. Good shell velocity.
You've got youtubers saying the tank sucks which is wrong it's just a support Heavy. Play it as an Assault Heavy and yes you'll have a bad day.
They same idiots that look at the stats of these Christmas tanks and win-rate, even though 90% of those games were driven by complete noobs from the open public, of course the stats are low. It could be the best tank in WoT and would still have sub 50% win-rate.
Well, on the beach was safer than in the Eindhoven.
I still aint played the last free tier 9 tank . If im battling that high up the tree its because im grinding out a tier 10. My sweet spot is tier 6 for kicking back and having fun. Top tiers people tend to get more serious and whiney if you dont preform how they expect you to preform and usually it seens like they'll literally blame a loss on you rather than the other 14 monkeys in battle that died without even hitting anything
I downloaded the game, logged in, got like 7 new tanks for 14 or so years of service, some tokens and whatever, felt like the game just vomited shit at me. And then I logged out.
I have a few free tanks that I pretty much never use. Patton the Tank for example. I haven't tried this one yet.
@Claus kellermanThink gift horse statement was don't question things when they worked out for you.
Who'd be a horse dentist?
GG
I haven't played for 8 years and thanks I installed IOT get my free tank then I uninstalled again, but my account has a tier 9 now 😉😉
I got 2 kills on my first match with this when both teams had about 8. I assume a lot of newbs were playing them rather than a surge of skill on my part.
The only odd tiers I like are 3 and 5. Don't know if I'll ever play this tank, might just sell it and get more camo bling...
condition of the teeth gives you the age and condition of the horse.
I like Tier II-III games. They're still fun. People are derping around and doing goofy stuff and it's all shits & giggles. High tiers are boring. Static camping from optimized positions and the team that blinks first loses.
Seems like a nice enough tank, especially for free.
Clauss can you talk about obligatory ghost shells and the critical hits that russian tank tracks have without damaging taken! 😂😂😂😂
I was just going to leave it to collect dust in the garage. I may have to try it out... I guess.
That was fun!
The beach was a better spot compared to the bocage in WW2 .
WG what's next.....EBR The Car? 🤣
Lol the Grille
Hey Claus! Merry Christmas, ya filthy animal...
Yuri iz teim for gift tenkski. Da da da vee flood duh serverskiz with long reload tank so players can dynamically stare at each other for long awkward periods of timeski. Also we geeve it HESKski so they can not do damage. In rasscha gift is sh33tski sammich
Sorry Claus, I do not play Tier IX or X due to the cheaters, this like Patton the prank are going to collect dust in the garage.
HESH is extra good at damaging modules and crew.
Yes i got it. Spent about hour looking wot over then went back to wows.
Wot has so much crap involved i started to remember how friggin grindy it is like war thunder
The GSOR NA Champoinship - 😄😆😁🤭😆
You can estimate the age of a horse by checking the Galvayne's groove in the teeth. If it's a 'gift horse' it would not be proper to do this. It's a gift, right?
Wait 6 months, most will be gone or stay in the garage. Of course in 6 months I will have quit playing for 5 months, I only check in very occasionally!
AY UP CLAUS
and just like every other tank that WarGAYming "gives away" it is a total piece of sh*t. I played it last night for 3 games. That's all that I could stand.
Happy Chritmas to Claus and followers.
And too you & yours! 😊
Yuri, how can we find a way to ruin gameplay in the upper tiers?
I think it's a kind off a support role tank. I will give it a try. 😅
As an arty playerr i have seen them scoot around very often after they where given. It whas fun to watch them fall off of clifs, beeing in the wrong possition and see them complain in GC. 😂😂😂
What is a gift horse? Always heard that but no clue what it means. I'm probably an idiot for not knowing.
Most I had was 11 GSOR the Tanks in a game. Not kidding, they were all dead at the end.
cant stand the current state of WoT. Game is beyond salvation. WG can give away 100 free tanks, wont save the game. I'll still watch Claus though make fun of the muppets. Claus makes WoT fun again.
Just played against a GSOR account, playing his 4th game ever... 😮
And doing 0 damage ofcourse
It's a better gift than the Patton, not OP but just OK.
Merry Christmas to everybody.
Nah, I will play it after the holidays 😉 when the shitshowness is less than today 😍
It’s a decent tank been averaging over 3000 damage