JOYTOY Mechs and Warhammer and stuff

Some things in life are just better and easier to avoid entirely than to try and manage.

That said, you really don't have to go "all in" on Joytoy Warhammer stuff. Or the gaming aspect. Just pick and choose which items appeal to you. There is the plastic crack danger though of one or two purchases suddenly becoming an entire shelf of stuff. If you do order any Joytoy Warhammer items, I recommend Aliexpress and using store and seasonal promo codes. Definitely brings the pricing way down. Amazon also has occasional coupons which create decent discounts.

Like Damien said, they did start making Age of Sigmar figures. But only Stormcast ones so far. Which frankly, are kinda boring visually. If they start making dwarves, undead, lizardmen, or Nurgle guys, I may be tempted. Sorry, I'm used to old school Warhammer names and not the new school George Lucas type names for everything.
 
Ashtalon said:
Like Damien said, they did start making Age of Sigmar figures. But only Stormcast ones so far. Which frankly, are kinda boring visually. If they start making dwarves, undead, lizardmen, or Nurgle guys, I may be tempted. Sorry, I'm used to old school Warhammer names and not the new school George Lucas type names for everything.
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Big same from me. I'm into the weird chaotic body-horror kind of looks, so these Death Guard guys are interesting to me, but otherwise I haven't really been in any danger of falling too hard into the JT Warhammer stuff yet since the big showstopper pieces are so expensive. And even though I lean way more sci-fi than fantasy in my tastes, turns out it really is the fantasy monsters/creatures of WH that would and will be way more tempting for me if they start producing them. Get me some Skaven and Lizardmen and I'll let my wallet figure it out later.
 
Ashtalon said:
Like Damien said, they did start making Age of Sigmar figures. But only Stormcast ones so far. Which frankly, are kinda boring visually. If they start making dwarves, undead, lizardmen, or Nurgle guys, I may be tempted. Sorry, I'm used to old school Warhammer names and not the new school George Lucas type names for everything.
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I would go dangerously hard on Bretonnia. DANGEROUSLY. Stormcast don't really move the needle for me at all.


Ashtalon said:
There is the plastic crack danger though of one or two purchases suddenly becoming an entire shelf of stuff.
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I did this at first. I bought a little bit of everything. We've got the SM2 team and a few Tyranids, I got a bunch of Space Wolves, Black Templars, Leman Russ, an Ork, a Sister of Battle, a White Consul, a few Cadians. Plus my son got some Dark Angels (and Lion), Thousands Sons, Custodes.... not only was it getting a little ridiculous but we also had this massive list of 'to get' from basically every faction.

Eventually I calmed down and started looking at the list realistically. I was never going to spend ten grand filling an entire room with 40K figures. So I figured out what I liked most and I'm just sticking with that now. But I totally get that some people fall down that spiral and can't pull themselves out of it, and maybe are better off not getting near it to begin with.
 
For Space Marines, I tried to limit myself to Ultramarines and Blood Angels. UM just because they get everything in their color scheme. But then I always loved Space Wolves growing up but never had the balls to paint them. And Black Templars looked so cool. I did have the strength to resist any further Space Marines.

I also have some Orks. Too bad those Kommandos were so expensive and not massable they essentially killed interest in that faction. Also have some Chaos Space Marine Black Legion and have avoided the other factions. Grey Knights. Sisters of Battle. And I love Tyranids, so I got a bunch of them. I have enough of Grey Knights (just wanted some representation). I'm good with the Sisters and don't need more (just have original 5 and the heavy weapons ones).

For stuff I'd like them to make. For armies already started, I will get any future Tyranids they make (c'mon and make some different weapon Warriors). I imagine Genestealers are going to happen. After that, Tyranids start getting larger, so it'll be interesting to see what else they make. More Necron. I think some Skorpekh Destroyers would enhance the Necron forces we've already gotten. I'd like some Orks, basic Boyz and Meganobz. I didn't get any Imperial Guard, but if they continue to make them, I may be tempted to start. With so much of that army being tanks, I can't see them going too crazy. But maybe a Leman Russ tank, which is one of the smaller ones and seems feasible for this line.

And for untouched armies, I'd like some Eldar. Particularly the different types of Aspect Warriors.

And yes, Bretonnians would be cool. But they're not even in Ages of Sigmar are they? I think they've brought them back in the revived Warhammer Fantasy Battle, but Joytoy just started with Ages of Sigmar, so it may be a long while before WFB is touched.
 
Black Templars are easily my favorite faction. I -still- laugh at the joke that BTs aren't codex compliant because they can't read. Love it. Love them. Love the meta jokes about them. S tier chapter. Space Wolves are a close second, though. Fuck them Grey Knights -right up-.


I thought about collecting Necrons in addtion to BT, as I kind of wanted to collect at least one Imperium faction and one Xenos faction. But that gets pricey and I came in a little bit late to be able to easily find Necrons. If they started re-issuing the old ones, I might get very tempted. Especially if that was accompanied by new additions.

As for tanks, I mean JT IS doing the Blood Angels ... is an Inceptor tank? I can't remember. And the Cadians got a few pieces of field artillery in the line already as well. I very seriously entertained the idea of doing an entire Cadian battlefront but then I did math for how much that would cost.

I also like Eldar, so I'd be really tempted to grab one or two, but I think I'd -have- to not do that for my own sanity and wallet.


Ashtalon said:
And yes, Bretonnians would be cool. But they're not even in Ages of Sigmar are they?
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Nah. I think the closest we get is the Cities of Sigmar Cavaliers. Otherwise, Bretonnia is relegated to The Old World stuff.
 
I own 9 of these figures. You can control yourself, just stick to one or two factions or a set of rules that govern your purchases. I began way back when they were only doing Ultramarines by getting a box of Infiltrators (or Incursors, maybe). Didn’t buy any others until the Dark Angels were announced, since those are my army for the game. Got two intercessors and two terminator armor types, one of which has the banner. That’s good for me to represent that I like the army on my shelf. I’d maybe buy one of the new deathwing knights, or a DA chaplain if they ever made one, but that’s it. I don’t need the Lion if it’s $120 for the figure. Hell, he was dead up until like two years ago anyway.

The only other figure I bought was a single Iron Warrior from a shop called Sootang Hobby in Akihibara (may have combined with Top Play toys), partly because I also have a IW kill team, but mostly because I wanted to support their business. Didn’t hurt that it was cheaper than usual due to conversion rate.

I also bought two different Grey Knights as gifts for someone who plays GK. But that’s it. Don’t get me wrong, they all look cool as hell, and I’ve seen almost all of them unpackaged in person, but realistically I try to apply the same strict purchasing limitation to these figures that I do for the tabletop game pieces.

If you set some limits it’s pretty easy to not go too far, especially since being a completist isn’t really feasible for this line.
 
I grabbed 1 blue Space Marine and 1 motorcycle to check them out, and I honestly haven't even opened the boxes yet. I also have the 1/18 Dredd with Lawmaster as a counterpoint in my small 1/18 collection, but none of it is on display at the moment.
 
Re: WH, I only got the one uh... 'Intercessor'? from the initial 4set of dudes as my human; everything else has been Tau or Terminid. I want more of both, esp Tau. The orks were just a bit too cartoony for my tastes. I've never followed WH canon so have no need for such a collection, and just use them like 90% of the stuff I buy: however the hell I want to use them.

What I love about the 24th line is that SW chicks can make them 18th (altho it looks like Hasbro is fixing the shortness issue with newer figures like Master Trinity Whatshername and the new Nightsister, so those do *not* fit now that the legs are in line with traditional figure proportions). I left a connector piece at home so I can't show the bike mode. She does look a bit too big riding on it, admittedly.

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I bought this because one of the stores on Amazon had a coupon that dropped it to $100. Probably shoulda spent that money on better shoes to maintain a stronger grip on this slope I'm standing on though...

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If anyone is looking to get into the Warhammer figures, ShowZ store has some of them at very reasonable prices on their flash sale page.
 
JT showed off three new blueberries today - all based on SM2 PvE skins. Two heavies (Artificer skin and Relic skin - with multi-melta and heavy bolter, respectively) and a weird Tactical relic skin. I say weird because this Tactical doesn't come with a primary weapon, but does come with a power sword and plasma pistol. That combination is practically synonymous with Bulwarks, and in fact Tacticals can't even use power swords in SM2. Really weird. But all three figures look awesome.

Still makes me wish the core chapter in SM2 wasn't Ultramarines. What I'd give to be getting figures that look like this in Black Templar or Space Wolf deco.
 
I saw those and the other new one and thought they looked cool as hell, but I don't know much about the rest of what you just said. However, I am now listening to Warhammer lore podcasts when I work out because I am a cool dude who is not at all susceptible to falling down dark nerd-holes.
 
cmoney said:
I saw those and the other new one and thought they looked cool as hell, but I don't know much about the rest of what you just said. However, I am now listening to Warhammer lore podcasts when I work out because I am a cool dude who is not at all susceptible to falling down dark nerd-holes.
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The other stuff was just video game things, not necessarily Warhammer lore stuff.

In Space Marine 2 you have campaign mode, PVP mode, and a PvE mode where you team up with either two bots or two other random players (or a combination of the two) to do side-missions related to the main campaign, but not playing as the main character. You just play as a random other fireteam doin' stuff to help out during the course of the main story.

In the PvE system, there's (currently) six classes to choose from. Each class has specific weapons they're allowed to use, and cosmetic/stat upgrades for all those weapons, and cosmetic upgrades to their armor set (both weapons and armor sets go from Mastercraft to Artificer to Relic tier - getting fancier-looking as you go up).

With these new three figures, JT has made four figures based on those armor upgrades and weapons. But in the specific case of the dude with the power sword, he's wearing armor that marks him as the 'Tactical' (one of the classes), which is a class that's actually not currently allowed to use power swords. It doesn't matter, really. I just thought it was weird.
Or the newest update will allow Tactical players to use power swords and JT already knows about it, I guess. That'd be kind of cool.


Not that you asked or cared. But I am also not a nerd.
 
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