So, I just won the lottery!

[Autumn Leaves]

Yeah, start my own small miniatures company making the miniatures i want to play with and if other people like them they can buy them too.
Then travel, travel, travel... and see it all.

[pluch87]

Thinking about it, I would be tempted to get enough of a stake in GW so I'd have the power to make Mat Ward write every Armybook and Codex, then sit back in a black leather swivel chair and watch the internet implode as I cackle maniacally and stroke a fluffy white cat.

This made me laugh quite hard. I really hope you win the lottery...... please?

I'd do all the obligatory things that come with winning the lotto + buy the greatest death korps army ever fielded. After that, a gigantic tyranid army with a ridiculous amount of biotitans. Paint until I go insane, then two armies can battle it out on the most detailed gaming table ever created. It would be a week long battle. Of glory. And tears. And blood. And.... toy soldiers.

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[Sai-Lauren]

Three words - Titan Quarto Legion. And then of course a battlegroup of Phantoms and Revenants to go up against them.

[magath]

Three words - Titan Quarto Legion.

Yeah. Pretty much.

Suprised at the lack of "Full marine chapter" or "Full IG Regiment" answers to be honest, they were my first thoughts.

My big thing, winning the lottery, would be to have a big skip filled with plastic models and swim in them Scrooge McDuck style. And buying a top hat and a monacle

[Novrain]

Kidnap Jervis Johnson, build a time machine and rewind the last 20 years of his life. Set him up to create Epic Armageddon again with limitless funds!

Oh and probably kill ebay with my addictive spending...

[Godzooky]

Congratulations on winning the lottery.

[superdupermatt]

In my boredom in work I totalled up how much it would cost to buy every squad for a blood angels chapter (using what is stated on the codex). I think it came to just over £10,000! I don't even need to win the lottery for a chapter!!!

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[Jim30]

"I would buy Jes Goodwin. "

I wasn't aware he was so hard up for cash he had to work the streets to make ends meet ;-)

[MajorWesJanson]

2 Battle groups of reavers, two pairs of warhounds, a battlegroup of Warlords.
Subsidize the release of a plastic Thunderhawk in return for having the one on the back of the box painted in my chapter colors and make my chapter canon (say a paragraph in the next SM codex in a timeline)
Subsidize the production of a plastic Knight Paladin/Errant kit
Get my chapter up to full strength
New house with basement having room for 4 4x8 gaming tables, shelves along the bottom half of all the walls, and a work bench.

[sigur]

If i won that much money I'd retire early, buy a new house or renovate this one then sit down and enjoy my days in my dedicated hobby room assembling and painting the many boxes of stuff i havent made time for so far. With a cup of tea and some weekday sunshine through the window.

You got it right, Sir.

[de Selby]

It's boring if we all just reply with our retirement plans, I think the idea is you have to spend lots of money on something wargaming-related. I like the idea of my own miniatures company myself. I've got some ideas, it would be fun to actually pay some people to execute them.

[canberraguy]

Great thread, I was daydreaming about what I would do if I won the lotto just yesterday!

I would go crazy on eBay buying lots of old GW stuff like a full WD collection etc. Paint for a couple of hours a day, study history at uni, go cycling every day and have a kick ass wine cellar.

[The bearded one]

Build a gaming table with a 40K imperium cathedral complex several feet high, with dozens of floors and an enormous hall, high enough you could nearly stand in it and large (and playable) enough you could fully fledged battles in it, as well as games like necromunda and combat patrol.

It'd be.. * snif * awesome..

[Whitwort Stormbringer]

It'd be.. * snif * awesome..

Totally doable! OK, I don't know about dozens of floors, but seriously you should try it, I don't think it would be all that hard if you planned out the floorplan in advance, found an affordable building material, and stuck to it. Obviously it would take time and it wouldn't be super cheap, but it would be awesome and it probably wouldn't be so expensive that the average Joe couldn't pull it off if he really wanted to. I'm sure you could find detail-y stuff for the inside from all over the place - your bits box, toy kits, random odds and ends, etc. Could be an on-going project so you build it bit by bit as you have the time/funds.

[gutsmaka]

by the time I win the lottery I would probably be able to buy a single ork warboss due to price increases

nah, get a2 massive epic armies, and then convert them to 40k scale. and have a massive battle!

[Yodhrin]

Buy out GW and take it private so I can rule my empire without listening to the petty entreaties of stockholders. Return White Dwarf to a hobby magazine as opposed to a glossy catalogue. Retain the employment of Matt Ward as a member of staff, but change his job title to "Whipping Boy", and his job description to "gets whipped through the halls each Gamesday as part of a new event where attendees bet on how long he can keep running before collapsing in agony, the prize being miniatures". Bring back Specialist Games.

And then, of course, promptly retire on a state pension after my manic policy changes run the company into the ground

[Deamon-forge]

i would do somthing hobby related, as in a store were any one can pop in have a game have a nice chat, maybe paint buy some new items stuff like that. but would not charge over the top as come on, if you got the euromillions i think as long as your store cover the rent and and other bills who give a ***** if you make a large profit, i know i would not mind. as you be getting better income from having your cash sitting in a bank!

[Mr Ogre]

Specialist Games.....hmmmm...I think I'd try to obtain a license to put those back into production!

Lease the lot. Moulds that exist, stuff that never made it into production. Everything. Massive relaunch!

[Askari]

I'd build a gigantic 40k cityscape with all the trimming, buildings large enough to hide Titans and.. and this is the awesome bit... an intricate series of rails on the ceiling to strap Valkyries and Thunderhawks to, so that instead of "moving" them on the table, you just sling them along these rails to give the impression of flying.

I'd also build a humongous chunk of the Empire in several 6x4 battlefields form, complete with dense forest table section, Empire hamlet, mountain pass, river, and a fully equipped fort.

I'd also pay travel expenses for gamers to play at this heaven of wargaming, as there aren't really many people to play against in the backward-end of Wales.

Oh, and several dozen bottles of Whiskey and Guiness on tap, in the same room. Warhammer becomes infinitely better with alcohol.

[Chaos and Evil]

Specialist Games.....hmmmm...I think I'd try to obtain a license to put those back into production!

Lease the lot. Moulds that exist, stuff that never made it into production. Everything. Massive relaunch!

Good luck with that. I offered GW serious moolah for the rights to just one SG (Epic) and they turned me down.

I'd start investing in plastics for my miniatures company ***.

Also I'd send my 11 week old daughter to private school, and buy a big house, but that's just boring.


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