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.