I’d also say Cheftian Mk 10 is pretty good in AB. 120mm APFSDS seems to do much better damage than the 115mm. Also the turret is crazy good.
The Mk 10 isn’t the one I was talking about, I was talking about the two 8.7 ones, the Mk 3 and 5.
Those two rely on APDS which is at best equivalent to the average dart round of the tier, but with a longer than average reload, and armor which can bounce some poorly aimed APDS, but nothing stronger than that. Even 90mm HEAT eats you alive.
The Mk 10 is the only good tech tree Chieftain, IMO. The addition of the Stillbrew armor pack, which can eat a lot of darts you’re going to be seeing, as well as the LRF, make it far more comfortable in the hulldown sniper role the other two Chieftains were trying to fill.
It’s a mass produced tank and in game it faces prototypes and other tanks that are 10-15 years newer. It’s to be expected