Welcome to the Army Men General!Previously: >>11529663>Plastic soldiers, knights and pirates, cowboys and indians, fantasy and sci-fi, cops and zombies, all are welcome here! (civilians are fine too)>Archived threads:https://archive.palanq.win/toy/search/subject/Army%20Men%20General/>Army men wargame rules:https://combatstorm.com/https://onepagerules.com/portfolio/one-off-games/https://www.plasticcommand.com/https://freewargamesrules.fandom.com/wiki/Special:Search?query=army+men>Places to get army men:https://bmctoys.com/ and https://victorybuy.com/https://www.armiesinplastic.com/https://www.toysoldierco.com/https://www.classictoysoldiers.com/https://www.toysoldiersdepot.com/https://www.hobbybunker.com/https://www.michtoy.com/https://www.toysoldierhq.com/https://micshaunscloset.com/http://www.expeditionaryforce.com.sg/
>>11551961Those look like decent knight molds.
>>11552187Many years ago a local hobby store had bags of them, originally all silver with the red and blue paint to differentiate two armies, then unpainted silver and black with most of the same poses but missing the flags and trumpeters.
>>11552531Currently on the market is another set of black and silver knights with great poses and mounted ones, with the added detail of four different poses for the horses. They can be bought on their own or with various levels of accessories including a decent castle with modular wall and tower pieces.
>>11552534 These guy have the same poses.
>>11552544They're different poses, I have both and the small guys are an OC set of their own, seem to be heavily inspired by older sets. They share at least one very similar pose with the bigger guys, the standing archer with bow in one hand and arrow in the other.
Is there anywhere to get terrain for plastic guys? I found the pictured on amazon but it's too big and expensive for what it is. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B7P55VC8/?coliid=I25LUX8KP2VZD2&colid=36QU1HPZAQZUF&th=1
>>11554994Depends on what you're looking for but that's not terrible price-wise, considering army men accessories like that are niche and have limited demand, also tend to come from recognized brands like that one being from Timmee which adds to the cost. There's sets of pirates and skeletons that include pic related and a bunch of other stuff, also the knights here >>11552534 often have them.
>>11555207More stuff from the set I got a year ago, haven't found that exact one but this is similar, costs the same as that pile of rocks and has a castle, pirates, skeletons, knights, the skull rock piece and lots of other stuff.https://www.amazon.com/Enajucy-Medieval-Catapult-Crossbow-Treasure/dp/B0CDWGH53Y
Really miss sets like these
>>11557576One of my favorite all-time sets was very similar, same packaging but had three armies (third was yellow-tan) and included a couple cardboard base buildings among the accessories. Was thrilled to find one in a newly produced set from a Chinese company on Ali, in a US Civil War set and the included cannon was also anachronistic but a great nostalgia hit.
>dawn>location classified
>>11560202>"Mornin' Captain""At ease, Lieutenant.">"Cold this morning, Captain""Cold. And hard."
>>11560205>"Begging your pardon Captain, but I'm dying to know, we're all dying to know what this mission is all about.""Have to get used to that feeling in this outfit, we do a lot of things the higher-ups deem good and necessary, don't get to question it.">"I understand that Captain, but..."
>>11560210"George, I've been here in this exact predicament too many time to recall, with too many fresh faces from boot that didn't survive the first skirmish. War is the great equalizer, the ultimate natural selection.">"Yes Captain."
>>11560214>"I'm not afraid of the fight, lost a brother and two cousins to the wars with those vile Tans and Greys, I want my righteous revenge.""I admire your spirit George, it'll serve you well when the bullets are buzzing all around. Takes me back to my earliest missions."
>>11560215"The moment we hit the beaches of Tansylvania, seven of my platoon were mowed down in the blink of an eye, WHAM!"After I puked my guts out I wiped it off, grit my teeth and charged those bastard sandmen. Skewered a baker's dozen on my bayonet before the adrenaline wore off and the beach was secured.">"...Sir? What are you saying? We started the war with the Tans? But I thought.. we've always been told..."
>>11560219"Something you greenest Greens will come to learn, to accept and even appreciate is the higher-ups do as they please. They can see higher and wider than us grunts pounding the ground, they know what's best for our nation.">"Yes I know Captain but-""If they decree that the Tans are a menace and war must be waged on their evil asses, then so be it."
>>11560220"Word of advice, now that you're all in with the war effort and not some lovely naive civvie grandstanding from the safe zones: always acknowledge what you're told, don't believe a word of it, keep that to yourself and you'll last longer.">"Y-yes, Captain."
>>11560222"Looks like the chair force is ramping up, guess we're getting close to kickoff.">"Should I go get the men ready, Captain?"
>>11560223"In a minute George. Take a moment to savour it, really savour it. The last calm before the storm of battle. After this is all over, you'll get it. You'll know for next time."
>>11560225>"Yes. Captain."
>>11560227...
>>11560228>Hymn to Red October intensifies
>>11560231>end of chapter
>>11560202to >>11560232 Sweet. A new Theater of War. .
Plastro did nothing wrong
T*ns are locusts and get what they deserve.
>>11561570Hope no man got left behind come cleanup time
>>11562573Not to worry, the Greens made sure of any survivors.
>>11565159Nice figures. Weren't those from that bucket they used to have at Toys 'R Us?
>>11565164Yes, one of their better buckets with all the cool accessories included. Haven't seen army men of any kind at TRU in years now, depressing.
>>11565245That is sad. I absolutely love the little Conan knockoffs in the set, not to mention these would make incredible D&D or BoL figures/terrain. This stuff is as much /tg/ as it is /toy/. Do you think I could get it on eBay, like with the Rainfall David and Goliath set?
>>11566044Worth a shot, try fantasy army men or plastic figures.
>>11569421 Oh oh.
>>11569941The Blues continue to produce new patterns of armour at their hidden redoubts for their relentless guerrilla campaign against the Greys.
Meanwhile the wars at large go on, mostly as skirmishes, raids, patrols.
Though encounters with Grey armies remain routine they seem to lack the heart of previous campaigns. Rumours swirl of yet another Grey civil war, or perhaps the Blues are giving them a harder time than previously thought, or some other unknown crisis.
For the Greens, they can derive some satisfaction from this year's warring season, having held firm across the various frontiers and inflicted considerable losses on the enemy, particularly the most hated Tans. Despite some minor setbacks against marauding Purple warbands and the latest invasion fleet's repulse the Green High Command is no less eager to finally go back over to the offensive in their own occupied lands.
As another probing attack by relentless Tan armoured formations crashes against their mighty front lines, the finest Green strategists are hard at work studying the possibility of one final offensive operation before General Winter forcibly imposes a months-long truce. Might there yet be a last Green hurrah before the year's end? We shall see.
Been a while since the last significant buy so here's some crummy soldiers from a liquidation centre, still overpriced but pickings have been slim on the ground.
>>11573107Had very low expectations and was not disappointed, though they weren't quite as bad as expected. The plastic is better than many similarly poorly executed soldiers, only found one soldier with a piece broken off between two bags worth (pic is the contents of just one bag). Five different colours of armies, bit unusual for this kind of offering and even including a rare black army.
>>11573111You get a haphazard assortment of 8 different poses - the first bag I opened had one color missing a pose but between the two bags every army has at least a couple representatives of each. The poses are largely drawn from classic army men sets; the grenadier, binoculars guy and charging soldier are Matchbox WW2 Americans while all but one of the rest derive from the famous Desert Storm set of the 90s. The lone exception is the guy at back looking to his left and wielding his comically oversized weapon single-handedly while his other hand is in an odd pose; perhaps holding a spare magazine, or holding on to his combat webbing, or for some other obscure reason... he seems the archetypal casual warfighter, a weekend warrior of the highest caliber.A significant downside to these troops is their modest size when compared to average army men (blue trooper for scale). However if you're like me and have already collected a number of recent cheap Chinese sets this particular midget scale is fairly widespread these days. There are some older sets that compare well size-wise too (certain versions of the classic Airfix American Paratroopers and the Rambo-style soldiers notably). The packages promised 90 soldiers each; as it turned out there was a spare apiece for a total of 182 men, enough to form four companies and a platoon based on the colour distribution. Ironically the green unit (my largest army by far) ended up being the platoon out of the lot.Can't say I'd recommend these at anything other than rock bottom prices but they're an interesting novelty in their own right. Got some new sets on the way (including a Timmee sci-fi bucket) so there should be more reviews by the next thread.
Just wanted to comment on Timmee's classic army men set in their current bags of 48 soldiers. Have had these guys a while but only just took the time to do a pose count and it's interesting that Timmee understands that both standard methods of army men pose selection are imperfect.Typically the soldiers in an army men set will be either equal numbers of each pose, or a random count of each pose. The first option guarantees that every pose will be present, however this may leave you with more of certain less useful poses at the expense of more of other, better poses. The second option makes it a lottery situation where you may get many of the good poses and few of the less good; realistically it never works out that way of course and the reverse is usually what you get, or even worse you may not get any of a pose or poses at all.I can only speak for this bag of Blue soldiers (have one of Black that hasn't been opened yet) but I would imagine Timmee to be consistent: every pose has a count of four, with three notable exceptions. The officer with pistol and binoculars pose and the minesweeper both have a count of two, while the kneeling aiming rifleman has a doubled count of 8. I'm sure any army men aficionado can appreciate having more of the very useful rifleman and less of the officer and minesweeper in trade-off. Doubtlessly it adds to the cost of these soldiers but they're generally still pretty reasonable for what you get.
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