I won the lottery!

[voltigeur]

OK kind of misleading.

I thought it would be fun to start a thread on what you would do with your war gaming if you won the lottery. What project would you do that has always been just out of financial reach? I don’t mean winning a $3.00 scratch off I mean after taxes, attorneys, and a weekend of debauchery in Vegas you still have tons of stupid money.

Be realistic, be outrageous over the top just have fun.

[voltigeur]

I think if I found myself in this position I would first buy a house where I had a small out building to have my hobby. I'd like to have a room where I could have a 6 x 16 table and tons of terrain tiles to bury it in.

But the biggest project would be to start a line of 6mm infantry figures. (No vehicles why compete against perfection.) My idea has been to scan real life images into 3D CAD and let the computer make the initial molding. Have an artist clean them up and start pouring pewter. The line would include Rhodesian Infantry, Modern British Airborne & Marines, European Police, Civilians, Mercenaries and so many others all packaged for squads and platoons at 1:1 scale.

Don’t worry GHQ just pipe dreaming haven’t bought a ticket in a long while.

[Gompel]

I would give the money to people who can't support themselves, instead of anything to improve my own life. If you really need to win a lottery to make your dreams come true, you're doing something wrong
Basically I have everything I 'need' for this hobby. I even have enough time to spend being busy with this hobby, since it doesn't cost me much and therefore I don't have to work all day to earn the money.
Just my two cents.

[Donald M. Scheef]

Based only on existing models in 1/2400 scale, I have a personal shopping list of GHQ, Alnavco, CinC, Viking Forge, Molniya, and Panzerschiffe that totals US$ 49,548.85.

Don S.

[Zippy]

I would build a house for wargaming and then a small out building to live in

Gompel your a downer man

mike

[Mk 1]

It has been a long time since money was an obstical to my wargaming.

Not that I am so rich ... just that time is my bigger limitation. At the prices of micro-armor, even the "premium" prices of the "premium" vendor we all love so much, I can still afford to buy a whole lot more stuff than I have time to paint, never mind to game with.

But ...

If I did have "stupid" money, I'd like to try adding a form of "gambling" to my wargaming. I've considered this for many, many years.

Some gamers I've played against find it just a bit too easy to accept 50%, 75% or even 90% casualty rates among their forces in order to win an objective in wargames. Sometimes it just feels like something is missing from the motivations of wargamers.

As an example: I once had a guy in a gameshop pick-up game run a fleet of Italian L3s against my Soviet KV-1s. He seemed to think it perfectly obvious that the tankers in the L3s would be willing to ram into the running gear of the KVs to cripple them. I tried to explain to him that most Italian officers did not possess the rhetorical finesse that would be necessary for the pep-talk that would inspire that particular highly coordinated fleet action, but he was adamant that it was a valid tactic.

So ...

How about this? You play a wargame. Every time a tank is "destroyed" under the rules, you put a dollop of "firestarter gel" (used for starting campfires and BBQs) on the tank, and you set it alight!

The essence of my idea is that losses on the battlefield should hurt. Let's make that smart-aleck bastidge at the club or hobby shop who is so willing to pursue kamikaze tactics, actually PAY for his tom-foolery.

Let the winner collect the battlefield wrecks. There may be some among them that can be salvaged and put back into service. But there is no "loser pays for the winner's losses" in this model. Even victory comes at a price!

And for the infantry losses? Maybe just smash the stands with your thumb (or a mallet) when they are lost under the rules.

OUCH, now THAT'S gotta hurt!

[ROGER_HOUSTON2EMC-ENG.COM]

After I built one of those General Steel buildings (about 60x60) with a big wood floor and an interior painting and storage room for the mini's, My dream would be to have the entire 1st Allied Airborne Army mounted and painted, as well as ** CENSORED ** Corps to do Market Garden. Of course, I would have 2nd SS Corps as well.
Thats everything folks! The paras, the gliders(or a big chunk of em), 82nd, the 101st, the Poles, the Shermans, the Churchills, the Panthers, the jeeps, the command stands.......everything. Then of course, I would buy all the necessary GHQ buildings to repesent Nijmegen, Einhoven and Arnhem. The Arnhem bridge would have to scratch built or course. I'd use the floor space to recreate Holland and the road corridor from Einhoven to Arnhem.
Hell......Since I'm that filthy rich and its MY building and MY minis , ol' Monty just might pull Market Garden off .

I'd still have to get permission from the Wife to pull this venture off though.

[TAMMY]

It actually depend on the prize of the lottery. For example in Italy today the first prize of "Superenalotto" (a variant of a lottery) is about 130 million Euro (170 M$) net.

With an amount like that you can do what you want, both for the hobby and other peoples.

I will start for a "house" dedicated to wargaming, completing a few collections and starting new projects. As I am very slow in painting all thge new equipment will be painted by other.

Just a note for Mk I. It exists a document dated 28/07/1940, by General Dalmazzo, commander of XXI Corps in North Africa, titled "Actions of L tanks against enemy medium tanks", where it is reported a succesfull ramming action by a L tank of LXII tank battalion against a British medium tank. The General gives this as an example to be followed.

It as to be noted that a success like that happened only once, that quoted by the General.

[Panzerleader71]

"Just a note for Mk I. It exists a document dated 28/07/1940, by General Dalmazzo, commander of XXI Corps in North Africa, titled "Actions of L tanks against enemy medium tanks", where it is reported a succesfull ramming action by a L tank..."

Not sure if the original comment was only aimed specifically at the Italians, but apparently there are documented cases where Soviet Tankers were ordered (and they complied) to ram their T-34s into the German Panthers and Tigers at Kursk.

I have not really thought about how a BIG lottery win would effect the hobby in my case. Of course I have my dream vacation planned out. One thing I have thought about is rendering a EIR Legion in 6mm at 1:1. I suppose i could also talk myself into modelling most of the Canadian Army in Normandy, and the whole 12th SS Panzer Div. as oppostion.

[WargameHub]

I would buy a decent house, nice walled in yard, and also the outbuilding for gaming. Then pay someone to paint for me!

[Hauptmann6]

I would pretty much end up with the entire US and German army for WW2 at Command Decision's scale. And ALL the fleets for WW1 and 2 at 1:1. Every ship would be correctly named/numbered. All 175 Fletchers included.

And I would have all the nations of the Napoleoic era. They would be in a very large box on the way to Asia to be painted.

[Panzerleader71]

"I would pretty much end up with the entire US and German army for WW2 at Command Decision's scale. And ALL the fleets for WW1 and 2 at 1:1. Every ship would be correctly named/numbered. All 175 Fletchers included.

And I would have all the nations of the Napoleoic era. They would be in a very large box on the way to Asia to be painted."

Now, that is ambition.

[av8rmongo]

Forget the small time stuff, I would buy GHQ.

Paul

[wilykylee2000]

Well,

I imagine my ton of money is in 100 dollar bills. I won't bother doing the math, but it involves lots and lots of zeros. Sooooo.

I would need about a couple of plots of 50,000 acres each somewhere in the midwest and Texas. Ever driven through Kansas,Dakotas, Wyoming or Iowa? -- LOTS of room out there for the nuveau filthy rich wanting to make a personal playground. Next I would buy GHQ and General Dymnamics Land Division and create the New "General Hobby Quartermaster" Company to make gorgeaous life size full scale working vehicles as desired for some real action. Mount some MILES laser gear and viola! Instant end to arguements to whether you can see that tank over there or whether i hit you. Lasers don't lie.

I suppose I would let GHQ keep a mini workshop out back to keep the wee line going for sentimental reasons. Would seem a crime to end the best of the best.


Next would be the library of congress ( I figure everything is for sale for the right price) That's the only way I figure I can afford the 10,000 horrifically expensive Osprey titles out there.

outrageous and over the top delivered.

Kyle

[redleg]

I would buy the USS Midway and take it out for an occasional spin around San Diego Bay. I'm thinking that even with my own private helicopter there should be enough room on the hangar deck for my micro armor collection and some pretty decent terrain boards. I should even be able to fit my artillery on there. And there would be A LOT of artillery!