Was the Centurion AX Always Terrible

Draschel: take a nice look at super conquer. What made it immediately so popular, when was the line re-made. 2017? Well, definitely the spaced UFP basically a HEAT shield, the turret spaced armor panels, the better center layout turret not  rear mount. But other than that.....the flexibility increased huge. 101 side armor doubled from FV215B. 101 LFP, also 33% more armor increase. Why are Concept, Chieftain so popular too, in comparison to Super conquer and Conquer? And AE Phase compared to Conquer and M103? Its not just the speed, but because they are more flexible. Heavy tanks need side armor. They need SOME level of LFP protection to remove fodder penetrations otherwise avoided by SOME level of protection. And although not the best at the job, SOME level of armor protection allows for meaningful side scraping. While the old tech tree tanks, just miserably fail at it. WG needs to through this 2013 thinking and armor models into the trash, and reasonabily update the American, French, British lines.  This is also effectively even worse a situation, because WG is taking the opposite road, AND BUFFING CHINESE, SOVIET TANKS more with generally British and American features. Such as gun depression and view range. Why give tanks like 274A view range, when it should be like T44100, LT432, T54 mod 1. Why give WZ1111111115A, 113, object 140, IS5 gun depression? If this trend continues, they are going to give 260, 279E, IS7, 705A gun depression too. And American and British tanks won't have anything at all.