The Supertank

[Hertsblue]

It was, after all, built as an infantry support tank. But it evolved with good weaponry but sub-standard protection, as opposed to the British Matilda which had excellent protection but poor armament.

[Ithoriel]

The problem with the T35 (IMHO) is neither armament, which was actually good for the time, nor armour, which was no worse than most of it's contemporaries, but mechanical unreliability coupled with lack of internal communication which turned it into a cluster of independent bunkers on a far too regular basis. As said to begin with, big, slow (often static!), cramped and hard to enter and exit.

An impressive beast to be sure .... providing you weren't crew