Never read one battle report/ accountwhere the elefant did well. I may have missed something, I have only been reading about this stuff for 40 years.....you have any links? I would love to read them.As for the t55, yup, they made a bunch of them, I can kinda see that. I think they would have sold more js2's or centoriens mk1-5's but thats just a guess. From what I have been able to gather from this hobby, many of the people like to run tanks they would like to drive in the real world. Thats why the tigers and panthers do so well, they were the biggest badest beasties on the battle field. After reading accounts of the t55 on the goland ht's, the t55 just does not do it for me...but thats jmo.