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Anonymous Thu 04 Sep 2025 04:04:27 No.11551961 View View Reply Original Report

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/

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Anonymous Thu 04 Sep 2025 13:06:01 No.11552187 Report

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>>11551961
Those look like decent knight molds.

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Anonymous Thu 04 Sep 2025 18:03:55 No.11552531 Report

Quoted By: >>11552534

>>11552187
Many 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.

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Anonymous Thu 04 Sep 2025 18:06:55 No.11552534 Report

Quoted By: >>11552544 >>11555207

>>11552531
Currently 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.

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Anonymous Thu 04 Sep 2025 18:24:11 No.11552544 Report

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>>11552534
These guy have the same poses.

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Anonymous Thu 04 Sep 2025 18:33:44 No.11552552 Report

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>>11552544
They'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.

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Anonymous Sat 06 Sep 2025 23:38:43 No.11554994 Report

Quoted By: >>11555207

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

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Anonymous Sun 07 Sep 2025 03:54:57 No.11555207 Report

Quoted By: >>11555218

>>11554994
Depends 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.

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Anonymous Sun 07 Sep 2025 04:04:21 No.11555218 Report

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>>11555207
More 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

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Anonymous Tue 09 Sep 2025 01:05:14 No.11557576 Report

Quoted By: >>11557585

Really miss sets like these

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Anonymous Tue 09 Sep 2025 01:12:02 No.11557585 Report

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>>11557576
One 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.

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Anonymous Thu 11 Sep 2025 18:15:44 No.11560202 Report

Quoted By: >>11560205 >>11560506

>dawn
>location classified

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Anonymous Thu 11 Sep 2025 18:20:42 No.11560205 Report

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>>11560202
>"Mornin' Captain"
"At ease, Lieutenant."
>"Cold this morning, Captain"
"Cold. And hard."

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Anonymous Thu 11 Sep 2025 18:27:45 No.11560210 Report

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>>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..."

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Anonymous Thu 11 Sep 2025 18:30:25 No.11560214 Report

Quoted By: >>11560215

>>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."

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Anonymous Thu 11 Sep 2025 18:33:16 No.11560215 Report

Quoted By: >>11560219

>>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."

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Anonymous Thu 11 Sep 2025 18:36:53 No.11560219 Report

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>>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..."

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Anonymous Thu 11 Sep 2025 18:39:32 No.11560220 Report

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>>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."

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Anonymous Thu 11 Sep 2025 18:42:48 No.11560222 Report

Quoted By: >>11560223

>>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."

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Anonymous Thu 11 Sep 2025 18:45:06 No.11560223 Report

Quoted By: >>11560225

>>11560222
"Looks like the chair force is ramping up, guess we're getting close to kickoff."
>"Should I go get the men ready, Captain?"

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Anonymous Thu 11 Sep 2025 18:46:22 No.11560225 Report

Quoted By: >>11560227

>>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."

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Anonymous Thu 11 Sep 2025 18:48:15 No.11560227 Report

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>>11560225
>"Yes. Captain."

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Anonymous Thu 11 Sep 2025 18:49:19 No.11560228 Report

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>>11560227
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Anonymous Thu 11 Sep 2025 18:49:51 No.11560231 Report

Quoted By: >>11560232

>>11560228
>Hymn to Red October intensifies

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Anonymous Thu 11 Sep 2025 18:50:23 No.11560232 Report

Quoted By: >>11560506

>>11560231
>end of chapter

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Anonymous Fri 12 Sep 2025 00:36:17 No.11560506 Report

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>>11560202
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>>11560232
Sweet. A new Theater of War. .

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Anonymous Sat 13 Sep 2025 02:28:28 No.11561536 Report

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Plastro did nothing wrong

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Anonymous Sat 13 Sep 2025 03:13:26 No.11561570 Report

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T*ns are locusts and get what they deserve.

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Anonymous Sat 13 Sep 2025 19:44:02 No.11562121 Report

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Anonymous Sun 14 Sep 2025 04:30:56 No.11562573 Report

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>>11561570
Hope no man got left behind come cleanup time

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Anonymous Sun 14 Sep 2025 04:34:09 No.11562576 Report

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>>11562573
Not to worry, the Greens made sure of any survivors.

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Anonymous Wed 17 Sep 2025 01:59:50 No.11565159 Report

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Anonymous Wed 17 Sep 2025 02:07:29 No.11565164 Report

Quoted By: >>11565245

>>11565159
Nice figures. Weren't those from that bucket they used to have at Toys 'R Us?

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Anonymous Wed 17 Sep 2025 04:20:47 No.11565245 Report

Quoted By: >>11566044

>>11565164
Yes, 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.

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Anonymous Wed 17 Sep 2025 22:46:00 No.11566044 Report

Quoted By: >>11566125

>>11565245
That 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?

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Anonymous Thu 18 Sep 2025 00:30:18 No.11566125 Report

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>>11566044
Worth a shot, try fantasy army men or plastic figures.

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Anonymous Fri 19 Sep 2025 23:53:04 No.11568149 Report

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Anonymous Sun 21 Sep 2025 14:54:00 No.11569421 Report

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Anonymous Mon 22 Sep 2025 02:05:29 No.11569941 Report

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>>11569421
Oh oh.

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Anonymous Mon 22 Sep 2025 17:22:48 No.11570541 Report

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>>11569941
The Blues continue to produce new patterns of armour at their hidden redoubts for their relentless guerrilla campaign against the Greys.

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Anonymous Tue 23 Sep 2025 03:03:42 No.11571078 Report

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Meanwhile the wars at large go on, mostly as skirmishes, raids, patrols.

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Anonymous Tue 23 Sep 2025 06:21:16 No.11571186 Report

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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.

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Anonymous Tue 23 Sep 2025 06:32:52 No.11571193 Report

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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.

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Anonymous Tue 23 Sep 2025 06:38:51 No.11571200 Report

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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.

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Anonymous Thu 25 Sep 2025 05:51:41 No.11573107 Report

Quoted By: >>11573111

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.

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Anonymous Thu 25 Sep 2025 05:55:55 No.11573111 Report

Quoted By: >>11573121

>>11573107
Had 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.

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Anonymous Thu 25 Sep 2025 06:10:57 No.11573121 Report

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>>11573111
You 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.

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Anonymous Thu 25 Sep 2025 18:48:50 No.11573616 Report

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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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