Wish List for 2008-2009

[Harlan]

If you are going to wish, wish big.

Harlan

[pmskaar]

Don

I do enjoy your ship lists. Thanks for doing them and they are very informative. I have lots of WWI and WWII ships to paint from various navies and hope to get to them eventually. Some of my painted ones are in the online catalog.

Harlan

I do wish GHQ does all the items on your list. I hope they get to them all eventually. I am interested in seeing your top 10 from your previous list. I hope GHQ can do at least a couple of them this next year or two.

Pete - Binpicker, Out!

[Luca]

searchlights! It's so simple! They could fit very well with some FLAK guns around them. and could also be usefull to add some taste to "night" battles.

bye!

[Mk 1]

I hope they get to them all eventually. I am interested in seeing your top 10 from your previous list. I hope GHQ can do at least a couple of them this next year or two.

I'm with Pete on this.

There is no "rule" about what one might wish for. So we are each free to post as we choose in this thread. But I don't think that GHQ is short on wild-eyed ideas for what would be nice to have in the catalog if a magic wand were available for the waiving. Saying "I want everything" is about equal to saying "I don't want anything in particular".

I hope that the good folks at GHQ are actually able to develop some sense of priorities by reviewing their many sources of customer input, including this thread (and others like it). We have already observed, in the few years that this forum has been active, that several of the items that have been suggested, on short lists, by multiple members, have wound up on the developmental calendar and are even now shipping. (Hooray for the Romanians! Hooray for the early-war Sherman M4A1s! )

I have seen several folks here suggest some "Becker's Follies" on several occasions. Not my cup of tea, but hey, I gotta expect that the GHQ folks can see that there would be some buyers if they added these items. So also with the Mathilda 1.

For me, my first priorities are not items that were produced in their dozens, or even the low hundreds, during WW2. If I could, I would trade away the KV-85 and Jagdtiger in the catalog today in favor of any of a mid-war M4, M4A2, Pz IVg, or Russian infantry with Mosin Nagant rifles (with bayonets) and Maxim MGs.

So also, I would not suggest GHQ to do an SU-37. Give up a rare slot on the new-products role-out list for a vehicle that the Soviets took into service in a total volume of what -- something like 27 units? And that I can kit-bash if from an SU-76 if I really want the fun of having an odd-ball in my collection (and by the way, I HAVE! ). Nope. I'd rather have something that was used in the thousands (or in the case of the Mosin rifles, the millions) from GHQ, so that I can build armies of some scale and impact!

Here are my top interests for the coming year and a half. These are the additions which, if made, would have me buying more often than my wife might like:

1) New Russian infantry. Individual infantry with Mosin Nagant rifles (with bayonets), DP LMGs, and a few PPSh SMGs. Please give me more than 4 riflemen for each LMG or NCO!

2) New Russian individual heavy weapons. With Maxim HMGs, PTRD ATRs, 50mm and 82mm mortars (two 50mm for each 82mm), commo (soldiers with radio/field phone) and officers.

3) A Romanian combat command or two. Can be made from existing (and already planned) units. Maybe a 1941/42 and a 1944 command.

4) Kneeling gun crews. Oh please! For any/all of the current armies! US, French, Italian, Russian and Romanian would be my purchases, but I'm sure anyone/everyone else would also be jumping in for Germans, Brits, Hungarian, etc. I guess French could pass as Romanian, and Russian could pass as Italian, and German as Hungarian in a pinch. But oy how I need kneeling gun crews!

5) Horse limbers. I would be an immediate buyer for limbers for my Russians, French, Italians, and Romanians. (I expect the German and Hungarian players woud like them for their armies, too.) Seperate from the guns. I have guns. Lots of guns. I need kneeling crews, and limbers. Please.

6) Truck packs. PLEASE! I need to be able to buy packs of trucks seperately from the guns. Supply echelons are often a key objective in my gaming scenarios. And the ratios of guns to trucks is often off for 1-to-1 unit scale gaming. As an example, the Italian 47mm guns now on special come with 4 guns and 2 SPa trucks. Even if we view each towed / deployed pair as a single gun, we still have 2 guns and 2 trucks. But those SPa trucks were SMALL, and the Italian TOEs provided for 2 trucks PER gun (for those units that had trucks). One for the gun and crew, the other for ammo. I will wind up with a ridiculous number of guns to get enough trucks. So also with the French Laffley that comes with the 47mm French ATG. It was used as a troop transport as well. But I'll wind up with a tremendous surplus of 47mm ATGs (a very rare issue in the French army of 1940) to get enough Lafflies.

7) US Paras. Like I need a new army to start collecting? But who can resist? I already have a few C-47s. I would surely be a buyer for some gliders, and some pack 75mm howitzers, if I could buy some paras to go with them. With M1919A3 LMGs and bazookas, please.

8 ) New US Infantry. As with the Russians, let's get some individual infantry for those of us who game on a 1-to-1 unit scale. Soldiers with M1s and a few BARs, and even fewer NCOs with Thompsons or carbines. Heavy weapons with M1919 MMGs, 60mm mortars, and bazookas. Right now I can't use GHQ for my Russian or my US infantry because the pieces and the mixes are just impossible for 1-to-1 unit scales. For me, there is no generic "Support Platoon" stand -- a bazooka (ATR) stand is different from an MMG (HMG) stand or a light mortar stand. I need them all. Oh, and 1-to-1 unit scale gamers buy MORE infantry than 1-to-platoon scale gamers. So more to sell.


I guess that's enough for now. I do like many, many of the items suggested by others. Lawd knows I be buying half the new stuff that comes out anyways. But I'd surely appreciate the items mentioned above.

[cheese_99]

New Russian infantry. Individual infantry with Mosin Nagant rifles (with bayonets), DP LMGs, and a few PPSh SMGs. Please give me more than 4 riflemen for each LMG or NCO! Sad

New Russian individual heavy weapons. With Maxim HMGs, PTRD ATRs, 50mm and 82mm mortars (two 50mm for each 82mm), commo (soldiers with radio/field phone) and officers.

Horse limbers. I would be an immediate buyer for limbers for my Russians, French, Italians, and Romanians.

Agreed!

[DAK]

I agree with MK1 about Infantry choices. If a Romainian command were to be done hopefully there would be some officers and NCO's with a SMG firing and a 81mm mortar would also be nice for fire support.

[Ritter]

I fully agree - once again - with every durned thing Mk uno said...esp the Matilda 1 and the Russian Rifles...and the US MMGs and and and...


Troy

[Ben]

6) Truck packs. PLEASE! I need to be able to buy packs of trucks seperately from the guns. Supply echelons are often a key objective in my gaming scenarios. And the ratios of guns to trucks is often off for 1-to-1 unit scale gaming. As an example, the Italian 47mm guns now on special come with 4 guns and 2 SPa trucks. Even if we view each towed / deployed pair as a single gun, we still have 2 guns and 2 trucks. But those SPa trucks were SMALL, and the Italian TOEs provided for 2 trucks PER gun (for those units that had trucks). One for the gun and crew, the other for ammo. I will wind up with a ridiculous number of guns to get enough trucks. So also with the French Laffley that comes with the 47mm French ATG. It was used as a troop transport as well. But I'll wind up with a tremendous surplus of 47mm ATGs (a very rare issue in the French army of 1940) to get enough Lafflies.

I just started my British WW2 collection and have to second this. The Scammell Pioneer Artillery Tractor is one example I would like to purchase separately.

Cheers Ben

[DeanMartin54]

I would also like to see some airborne troops; and also their transports!

1) US Airborne troops. Everyone has already described them, so i can leave this part out.
2) C-47's! We cant have Market Garden, D-Day or any US Campaign without it!!!! Having the Ju-52 is amazing but we need the allied counterpart! Not only that, but it could be used for Russian, British, and Japanese forces as well!!!

3) Light/Medium Bombers. Some B-25's, B-26's, and most importantly--- the HE-111!!!
It would be really amazing for early war campaigns.

4) Trucks trucks trucks trucks trucks trucks trucks trucks truckstrucks trucks trucks truckstrucks trucks trucks truckstrucks trucks trucks truckstrucks trucks trucks trucks!!!!
My supply echelons suffer greatly by my lack of trucks. I remember in one situation i lost the game due to my lack of mobility and resupply for my artillery.

5) the Pz IV G.---- Enough said

6) Side Skirt add-ons. It would be really nice if we could buy packs of side skirts for Pz III's and Pz IV's. especially the Pz III. I am modelling the Battle of Kursk, and i think that it would be amazing if i could add some side-skirts to my Pz III J,L,M,&N's! But what would be great is that you can attach the side skirt packs to anything based of the Pz III. so basically, you can finally fit the Pz III & Stug Family with side skirts!!!!! This to me is my number one!!!!

[cbovill]

I have been asking for side-skirts for the Pz III for years, I too would love to see special photo-etch add-on kits for these so I could decide how much each tank would receive for more realism.

Chris

[Ben]

I did wish it before but do not remember the topic...
However it fits in here very well:

I would like to see the Stalwart HMLC, which uses the same chassis as the Saracen and Saladin.

Kind regards,
Ben

[redram]

It´s somewhat exotic but I would like to have the MBT 70:
http://www.fprado.com/armorsite/mbt_70.htm

[Donald M. Scheef]

I don't want to be critical, but there are many military vehicles and weapons that were produced and used in significant numbers and have not yet been modeled. I agree that the MB 70 is cool-looking, but I would encourage wishes for something that got beyond the prototype stage.

On the other hand, in my favorite area of Micronauts, I would love to have a 1/2400 model of the British N3 battleships.

D. Scheef

[ferret701]

I'll keep my wish list short, as there are about 50 I could add.

The item I most want to see is the AMX-VCI -- it was pretty much the default post-war European APC prior to the M113. If that gets made, making the 105mm and 155mm SP howitzer versions, which were also used fairly widely.

If GHQ were willing to do a series of modern Italian vehicles, I would buy them -- Centauro, Ariete and VCC-1 would do nicely.

This ones a bit more esoteric, but a number of nations used another version of the M113A1, which had two hatches behind the drivers hatch, instead of the central hatch common to US and FRG vehicles. It would be an easy model for GHQ to make, but I don't know how it would sell (other than to me...). It could come in a pack with a 20mm turret to replace one of the hatches, as used by the Swiss and Norwegians. There is a Scotia model of this out there, but it is poor (to put it kindly).

I would also like to see a sprue of generic engineering types -- guy with shovel, minesweeping gear, demo charges, etc -- no one makes a good one.

I would also go in for a big way for a photo-etched set of Leopard 1 customization parts. It could include sideskirts (they were added to A1s, but the model doesn't have them), MG3s for the turret, armor plates to make the A1 model into an A5, etc. You could get a lot of items on a single sheet of brass.

Finally, I would like to see a set of generic baggage you can add to vehicles -- tarps, boxes, jerry cans, etc. I've been running these off in resin, but GHQ could do a much better job.

Pat Callahan
www.microarmormayhem.com

[Ben]

I would also go in for a big way for a photo-etched set of Leopard 1 customization parts. It could include sideskirts (they were added to A1s, but the model doesn't have them), MG3s for the turret, armor plates to make the A1 model into an A5, etc. You could get a lot of items on a single sheet of brass.

The Leo 1A1A1 on offer has skirts and is equipped with add-on armour, if I see right.
BTW the Leo 1A1A1 were later converted to Leo 1A5, the add-on armour was no special Leo 1A5 feature! For example the Belgian Army had a own version of the Leo 1A5 (originally without add-on armour but they tested a different add-on armour kit as well), while the Danish had another version of the Leopard 1A5 based on Leo 1A3/A4 turrets.
The A5 conversion in general means that new fire control equipment and optics (including a Laser rangefinder) were fitted.

Kind regards,
Ben