Welcome to the Army Men General!Previously: >>11732052>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://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://micshaunscloset.com/http://www.expeditionaryforce.com.sg/
Why are Tans seemingly considered the bad guys by everyone?
>>11762872Because Greens are the good guys.
>>11762876Why?
>>11762925It is written.
Ground is drying out, barring another last winter gasp the new campaigning season can open soon.
>>11764733It's been a close call on more than one occasion; I did forget a small sandbag wall piece once that someone doing some gardening stumbled across later. I'm quite fastidious about ensuring the same number of soldiers that left the house that day are the same number that returned, aided by the organizational system in place for my plastic armed forces.One example was last year when an overconfident Tan Brigadier determined that human waves against fortified Green positions was textbook victory tactics. The assault consisted of a Tan National Guard Light Infantry Brigade of 203 men, reinforced with a Tan Shock Battalion of 87, or 290 troops all told (plus, belatedly, a platoon of four tanks). By the end of the massacre there were 51 men (and 1 horse) remaining between the two units. All corpses accounted for, both units formally disbanded and survivors amalgamated into an ad-hoc company.
Good to see someone has fun with their toys on this board.
>>11764197Holy kino
There's a fine line between fun and aggravating, especially on windy days. In the end though the payoff is always worth it.
Ngl, been getting the urge to break out my FoV (u unimax) tanks and planes along with some army men. And ended up buying a set on amazon. I was thinking about the war in Ukraine how even infantry are being replaced. Does anyone set up drones or missiles in their scenarios. I use the word scenario because honestly I don’t have a better word than “play”.
>>11765541In the Colour Wars "present" era there is little to no drone technology in use; though the "future" timeline has only been touched on briefly so far, can imagine there may be drone warfare by that point.Missile warfare is routine though its use is usually implied rather than directly depicted, such as here with the launching of a long-range SAM during the Stealth Crisis.
>>11766159>>11766161>>11766162A weapon to surpass Metal Gear?
>>11767326 I don't know I didn't do this last year. I picked up a 2nd in November and my Gf got me the crab (even cheaper) after Christmas as well. Now THAT will hopefully me neat. So far they seem to have worked well with a bunch of different sizes and types of things.
>>11762872Plastro did nothing wrong. Total Grigger death.
>>11766162>Mecha Hitler is real
One more month til vaca, can hardly wait.
>>11773178>>11773181>>11773183My wife's son?
>>11774836My guy is oooooollllddd.He's suffering the same kind of degenerative rot that the wings of MEGA's dragons did. What you can't see is he is pretty much lost the wing on his left and has a larger more complete one on the right - and it's glued together with crazy glue....And then there's the tail. I found him about 10 years ago.I don't know why I never thought of pics of him before either. I *should* probably see if I can get a new one.
>>11777395My two-headed guy is at least 30 years old, one of the oldest toys I have, can't remember the circumstances of getting him but was probably a birthday or Christmas. Not sure how he's stuck around all this time either, can't say I've had an especially strong attachment but after all this time I'd not want to lose him heh.
>>11777415I have this guy I call the derpasaur. When I get back to my place I will post him Nd you will know why.
>>11762866Berets are so cool
Does anyone know where to get decent quality army men. It seems in the past 2 decades quality has fallen off a cliff, is Tim mee or BMC all there is?
>>11784058Check out the links in the OP. Armies in Plastic is a higher end army men brand, they also do historical stuff beyond the usual WW2 to modern era. I've had good experiences with ViiKONDO on AliExpress, they charge for shipping which puts them in the more expensive category as well but they offer quite a variety. Some of the off-brand options currently on the market are surprisingly good too, though it can be hard to tell from the increasingly ai-generated listing images.
