AHC Make landship tanks like the Char 2C the norm

One key distinction between a ship and a tank that is, I think, being missed. When a tank is penetrated, it's usually out of action with one hit.

A ship is so big that it can take multiple holes and seal off the problem and keep fighting, most of the time. (Invincible, Inflexible, Queen Mary, and Hood are a few exceptions) The ships needed many shots to both get the hits, and do the damage, to take out the target. Also, the battleships usually carried close to the biggest gun that could be made at the time.

Within limits, a ship can be as big as desired--tanks can't.
 
Anywhere you bloody well want!

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What would it take to make super heavy tanks like the Char 2C or the T-35 become the norm leading up to the World War 2 era? Multi-turreted slow huge tanks with multiple main guns, like land battleships. I know at sea the Jeune Ecole proposed using navies of lots of smaller ships to overwhelm navies made of a smaller number of heavier ships. This never really proved to work in naval warfare, but it seems to be the case in OTL tank warfare, at least as far as the super heavy tank goes. I know why tank design actually evolved the way it did, but what could realistically make it take this different path? The only thing I can think of is a long period of a peaceful arms race where the prestige of the biggest tank looked good on parade, but no actual combat took place to demonstrate the drawbacks.
Different laws of physics or vastly increased stupidity.
More turrets means a larger hull and more crew (an even larger hull). Hence more weight to give the larger hull the same degree of protection as a smaller hull (with one turret and a smaller crew). Which in turn means a larger engine system (and more fuel) to make the damn thing mobile. Of course the engine and fuel requirements will feed back into a still larger hull....
And soon it's a huge, unwieldy, unreliable and immobile (due to ground pressure and weight) monstrosity that's pounded into scrap by artillery or airpower.
 
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