Hey GHQ!! About that 10mm line...

[33YearsGHQ]

Good question, I have always thought that WWI sets itself up well for 10mm. It would be great for figs, MG's, artillery, the few tanks that were used and even aircraft

[CATenWolde]

Colonials looks great in 10mm! For some examples and AAR's, see 10mmWorld.com under the Articles section. However, there are already some pretty stalwart lines out there.

Now here's a GHQ 10mm question I have never been able to get answered: Can we order individual guns in the same way that you can order other figures and parts? How about just carriage and wheel sets for those with a pile of extra barrels?

I only use 4 figures per gun for crew, so I accumulate 4 extra figures (i.e. another gun's worth) per pack I order ... I'm now up to 16 extra gun crews and need at least 6 more packs of guns! In the end I'll have around 64 extra crew ... and there's only so many siege mortars and machine guns I can buy from other lines.

I would LOVE to see packs of 4-6 guns as another option to the current guns/crew mix.

Cheers,

Christopher

[dougeagle]

I would go nuts for ghq 10mm World War 1. Seriously. I have the awesome rules "The Great War" by Warhammer Historical, and it's not the cost of playing the game in28mm but rather the scale. 10mm could be really epic looking and feel right and massive instead of like a large skirmish

I've been looking at getting these rules as well since I tried them at FallCon '08. The 28mm line that was used was great, but the cost would be high. I know a couple of other manufacturers make 10mm WW1, but if GHQ made them, I would definitely go for it.

So how about it GHQ?

[fishnoise]

I’d love to see a World War I line, but please not in 10mm. I like my Microarmor to be, well, micro.

While I understand the appeal of nicely painted soldiers in neat ranks – and 10mm is absolutely ideal for this – World War I is to me far more interesting for its increasingly mechanized later years when the weapons and tactics were much closer to World War II than to the Franco-Prussian War.

I don’t just want infantry, I want combat engineers and storm troops. I want tanks not in ones or twos but in mutually supporting groups as their creators meant them to be used. I want horse- and truck-drawn artillery of all calibers. I want heavy weapons from flamethrowers to Lewis guns to Stokes mortars. I want ground-attack aircraft. GHQ has already proven 1/285 is the ideal scale for gaming mechanized warfare and mechanized warfare starts with World War I.

Besides, a 10mm Microarmor line would be incompatible with GHQ’s existing lines of armor and accessories which span the rest of the century. GHQ would have to reissue the FT-17, 75mm gun, and Rolls-Royce armored car in two scales. A brace of Char 2Cs in 10mm couldn’t be used to bolster your 1940 French Combat Command. GHQ’s existing line of twentieth-century buildings would be useless. Right now GHQ’s bombed-out structures make a decent mid-war Ypres.

Other manufacturers (i.e. the usual Brits) make “blobbyâ€￾ 6mm vehicles, artillery, and aircraft for this period. I’d really look forward to replacing my current World War I equipment with models of GHQ quality. Quality alone would not be enough, however, to get me to change scales and duplicate my existing terrain and structures I can now use for recreating all the wars of the twentieth century.

Give us a World War I line, but please do it in 1/285.

[WargameHub]

I to would go for World War I in 1/285.