I won the lottery!

[Luca]

I would first buy a share of GHQ company, so every year I could decide the new items I'd like to see produced.

And then I would fund the Boston's MIT for a weird and freaky research on micro-engines and RC stuff, so I wouldn't need to move all the models by hand, but just by giving them oral orders.

And of course I would stop working, and playing all the day!

[Gridley]

I'd buy the entire United States Navy of WWII in 1/2400 scale (at 1:1, naturally) and have them painted. I'd pay GHQ the entire capital cost of the initial production run for any ships not already available. Yes, this would include odd-balls and one-offs, as well as conversions. I figure that's actually where most of my money would go, but I'd make a lot of other gamers happy.

I would then buy enough equipment for a US Army Corps circa 1944 with all attachments appropriate to a corps slice for both the ETO and PTO, including a USMC division for the latter, and the landing craft for same, in 1/285, again at 1:1 including 1:1 for infantry. I would get them painted as well. I would again pay GHQ for equipment not already available, and also the setup cost to make a US infantry Combat Command pack that is a 1944 Rifle Company at 1:1 with a third of the Battalion Weapons Company & HHC.

I would then play ETO games against all comers, and dual-scale PTO games with the US conducting fleet operations leading to an amphibious assault, with the transition from 1/2400 to 1/285 at the water's edge.

The sad thing? I have the excel spreadsheets already about 2/3 complete to tell me exactly what I'd need to order for these. So far I need 3,806 jeeps...

The ETO corps would be the (fictional) XL Corps, with the (equally fictional) 24th AD, 183rd, 197th, and 204th ID, 83rd and 203rd Engineer Groups, 56th Chemical Mortar Battalion, 413th, 426th, and 724th Field Artillery Groups, 1st Cavalry Group, 452nd Anti-Aircraft Group, along with numerous support units mostly un-numbered as yet, plus air support.

[BattlerBritain]

3,806 jeeps ....

Can you imagine painting 3,806 jeeps?

You'd go nuts!

[ROGER_HOUSTON2EMC-ENG.COM]

3800 some odd jeeps and 40,000 individual troops ! Phew!

[voltigeur]

That is why God made spray paint.

I opend this thread just for fun. Love some of the replies keep them coming.

[Mickel]

I wouldn't be so worried about the 3,806 jeeps. It's the 19,030 tyres on them that would get to me.

Apart from buying a house with a proper gaming room, I'd be inclined to assist in doubling the annual releases and trying to squeeze in some items that may not be big sellers, but needed to tidy up loose ends of existing lines like assorted '50s-'70s artillery pieces and some WW-I cruisers.

Mike

[ROGER_HOUSTON2EMC-ENG.COM]

I had a headache for a week after I painted all the tires on my Stryker Brigade.

[fishnoise]

Let’s see . . .

A square mile of WWI Western Front, built in true 1/285 scale, and constructed of 4-foot squares of sculpted foamboard mounted on rolling tables for ease of access. Twenty-five squares – five wide and five deep – ought to do it.

A building to house the above with ample storage for other squares representing deserts, steppes, jungles, landing beaches, urban areas, and other landforms and scenery elements suitable for gaming everything from ancient Sumeria to domed Martian cities.

A complete, privately commissioned line of WWI and “Plan 1919â€￾ vehicles, artillery, aircraft, and infantry with GHQ quality and someone else to do the painting. The Zeppelins would probably have to be vacuum formed.

I'd also like Emperor Qin’s complete Terracotta Army, reproduced in 6mm. Maybe Bacchus could take this on.

Finally, I’d commission new Osprey titles to cover fictional campaigns, such as Wehrmacht ’47 and the War of the Worlds. I’d no longer have to refer to the crumbling cover of an old Classics Illustrated to paint Royal Horse Artillery gunners engaging tripods over open sights . . .

[Panzerleader71]

"I'd also like Emperor Qin’s complete Terracotta Army, reproduced in 6mm. Maybe Bacchus could take this on."

We can only hope and pray to the minis gods that this occurs.

[RFSU]

I didn't win the lottery, but my credit card will be hoping I will....

Just ordered my first hit of GHQ... (since back when I could buy them in my local hobby store in the '90s) enough miniatures to play out my planned scenarios from the Syria-Lebanon Campaign 1941. Only problem is I barely have the patience nor the skill to paint them..

Aussies

Mark VIB, Universal Carriers, 25 Pdrs, 2 pdrs, 2 pdrs "Portee", Heavy Weapons, 2 x Infantry packs (1 digger hat, 1 UK desert, just to get a nice mix).

Basically enough to field a 1 for 1 infantry company, plus attached support elements from Infantry Battalion, with a bit of Cavalry.

Vichy French

R35 Tanks (also quickly pressed into service by the Aussies when captured intact), Panhard armoured cars, 75mm field guns, 25 mm AT guns, French Heavy Weapons, 2 x French Infantry Packs.

Again, 1 for 1 coy of infantry, plus attachments.

I also have ordered a few osprey books on the french, so I know how the hell to paint up the Senegalese Colonial troops and French Foreign Legion for this theatre.

But enough to keep me out of trouble for the next few months, have some good scenarios in mind.
Next I will buy a sort of mixed early war type German force, this way I can play, after some minor adjustments, both North Africa and France 1940.

Then Russian, plus some later German stuff, that will cover me off for the Eastern Front.
I guess I better get Italian too....

[Gridley]

3800 some odd jeeps and 40,000 individual troops ! Phew!

Actually, XL Corps currently numbers 92,656 troops. That includes 4,902 officers, 109 WOs, 4,711 medical personnel, and 14,661 vehicle crew. They are armed with 79,604 personal weapons (rifles, carbines, pistols, SMGs and BARs), most common being the M-1 Carbine at 33,908. They have 1,890 artillery pieces ranging from 60mm mortars (395) to 8" Howitzers (36), plus 3,712 bazookas. There are 12,316 vehicles and 489 aircraft. Few of these numbers are complete.

I'd be getting someone else (many someones, in fact) to paint all this.

BTW, by my count buying 1:1 ships for the USN in WWII will cost on the order of $40,000 for items presently available. More than half of that goes to 2,700 Liberty Ships ($23,000 and change). This does not count aircraft.

[ROGER_HOUSTON2EMC-ENG.COM]

I didnt count the ones already sitting in the jeeps,beeps,half tracks,tanks, and deuce and a halfs.
Forty grand for the ship line. WOW!
I wonder of these things will be worth a bunch more 50 to 60 years from now, after I am dead and gone. Like a baseball card collection for "sadistic war loving mongers".

[Donald M. Scheef]

With respect to the 1:1 USN and the 2,700 LIberty ships: The vast majority of the Liberty types were operated by merchant shipping corporations or foreign governments. Only 106 were commissioned in the USN. This reduces the cost to only $927.50.

Right now my 1/2400 shopping list totals $49,815.95, but this includes other manufacturers (for ships that GHQ does not [yet] make) and civilian types.

Right now, my largest planned expenditure for a single ship type from GHQ is $1094.50 for 110 more of USS Montrose (APA-212) - USN81.

Don Scheef

[Gridley]

With respect to the 1:1 USN and the 2,700 LIberty ships: The vast majority of the Liberty types were operated by merchant shipping corporations or foreign governments. Only 106 were commissioned in the USN. This reduces the cost to only $927.50.

Right now my 1/2400 shopping list totals $49,815.95, but this includes other manufacturers (for ships that GHQ does not [yet] make) and civilian types.

Right now, my largest planned expenditure for a single ship type from GHQ is $1094.50 for 110 more of USS Montrose (APA-212) - USN81.

Don Scheef

You are correct, I should have said the US 'fleet' rather than the USN.
Dare I ask how much you've already spent, and how many ships you have no representation (purchased or available) for yet?