Grown Men Playing with Toys
By Steve and Erik
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Episodes: 54
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Grown Men Playing With Toys is a Warhammer 40,000 podcast about getting better at the game without it feeling like a job or chore.
Join longtime friends Erik and Steve for practical discussions of strategy, list building, painting, and the lessons learned from games that went brilliantly.....or spectacularly wrong. Drawing on their systems engineering backgrounds and different approaches to 40K, they explore where casual and competitive play meet, with plenty of stories and friendly disagreements along the way.
This is a podcast for players who enjoy thinking seriously about their toy soldiers and laughing with the friends across the table.
They said we were too old. We said, “Hold our dice!”
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54 - Despite All Our Rage, We Still Put Our Turtle in a Cage: Life After a Reddit Ban and Why We’re Still Here
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Nov 07, 2026 |
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53 - Remember Your Nerd Belt: Pacing and Turn-by-Turn Decisions in Warhammer 40K
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Oct 24, 2026 |
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52 - It’s a Trap!: Stress-Testing Lists and Knowing Your Lose Condition
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Oct 19, 2026 |
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51 - Show Me the Doctrines!: Breaking Down the New Space Marine Codex
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Oct 05, 2026 |
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50 - Hold On to Your Butts: Riding the 11th Edition Codex Rollercoaster
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Sep 27, 2026 |
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49 - Michelangelo vs. the Assembly Line: Three Perspectives on Painting in Warhammer 40K
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Sep 21, 2026 |
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48 - Burning Bright: Playing as the Underdog in Warhammer 40K
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Sep 14, 2026 |
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47 - Shake the Snow Globe: A Check In On Some Of Our Favorite Factions
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Sep 05, 2026 |
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46 - The Nerfing Eye of Sauron: Erik's Favorite Factions Take One on the Chin
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Aug 30, 2026 |
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45 - Finding Your Nemo: Faction vs Force Disposition Specialization
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Aug 22, 2026 |
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44 - My Other Army Is a Flowchart: The Deliverability Problem
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Aug 15, 2026 |
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43 - Are You Not Entertained?: Why Playing 40K at Your LGS Hits Different
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Aug 07, 2026 |
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42 - I'm Not Dead Yet: 40K's First Balance Update
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Jul 31, 2026 |
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41 - Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho: Barnhammer's First Taste of 11th Edition
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Jul 21, 2026 |
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40 - I Feel the Need...The Need for 11th
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Jun 29, 2026 |
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39 - Thanos-Snapping My 10th Edition Lists: Erik Gets a a Clean Slate for 11th
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Jun 19, 2026 |
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38 - Where's the Beef (List)?: Playing Beefy Armies and Force Disposition Theory
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Jun 12, 2026 |
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37 - You Had One Job: The Dramatic Conclusion of Our 10th Edition All-Star Game
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Jun 04, 2026 |
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36 - Our 10th Edition All-Star Game
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May 29, 2026 |
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35 - Nobody Told Me the Dice Hit Back: Why We Sign Up for Hard Things, On and Off the Tabletop
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May 18, 2026 |
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34 - Pantheon of Woe: Population.....Me: Autopsy of a Necrons vs. Ultramarines Collapse
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May 14, 2026 |
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33 - There Is Only War... and Middle Child Syndrome: Sorting Every 40K Faction by Birth Order
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May 04, 2026 |
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32 - Be Excellent to Each Other: What Learning Age of Sigmar Taught Steve About Faction Identity
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Apr 27, 2026 |
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31 - Where We're Going, We Don't Need Roads: A Crusade League Retrospective and First Look at 11th
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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30 - I'm Terribly Sorry Sir. I'm Afraid You Are Mistaken: Scouting Our Own 40K Mistakes
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Apr 13, 2026 |
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29 - Mo' Models, Mo' Problems: Impulse Buys vs. Going All-In on an Army
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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28 - No More "And Then.....": Rating 40K Keywords and Abilities on Pure Fun
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Mar 27, 2026 |
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27 - List Hammer, Math Hammer, Feelings Hammer: The Stages of Grief After a Balance Dataslate
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Mar 14, 2026 |
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26 - We've Forgotten What We're Fighting For: Tempo and Trade vs. Stage and Push in Warhammer 40K
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Feb 26, 2026 |
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25 - I Think I C'Tan: Steve vs. Cousin Josh's Pantheon of Woe
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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24 - How Our Gorilla Got His Groove Back: Finding Practice Matchups That Make a Good Game
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Feb 13, 2026 |
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23 - He's a Peacock, You Gotta Let Him Fly!: Steve's Tier List of Warhammer Models with Wings
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Feb 06, 2026 |
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22 - One is a Genius, the Other’s Insane: Why "Competitive vs. Casual" Doesn't Describe 40K
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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21 - Death by Snu Snu: Surviving the Flood of New Detachments and Model Releases
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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20 - Wax On, Wax Off: Our Six Pillars for Leveling Up in 40K in 2026
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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19 - Guess Who's Back, Nurgle's Back: A Barnhammer Recap and Playing to Your Win Condition
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Jan 10, 2026 |
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18 - Size Matters Not: A Leagues of Votann After-Action and Our "OP" Framework Stress Test
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Dec 24, 2025 |
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17 - The Nerfing Eye of Sauron: Defining "Overpowered" and Testing It Against the December Dataslate
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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16 - I Taught My Peacock to Write a List, Part 2: Optimizing for Play Style and Spending New Points
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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15 - I Taught My Peacock to Write a List, Part 1: Building a Votann List Around Your Play Style
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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14 - Command Points, a Codex, and Chores: Balancing 40K Goals with Adulting
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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13 - Bad to the Bone: Cool or Not Cool with the Chaos Leaders
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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12 - Optimizer Prime, Heresy in Disguise: When Optimizing the Hobby Causes Friction
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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11 - I Love It When a Plan Comes Together: How Team 40K Changed Our Approach to the Hobby
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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10 - 10 Things I Hate About You: Our 10th Episode Q&A on Making a 40K Podcast
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Oct 26, 2025 |
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9 - The Thrill of Victory, the Agony of Defeat: Recapping the 2025 Fall Barnhammer Session
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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8 - Houston, We Have a Problem: How Hubris Nearly Cost Erik a Game Against Orks
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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7 - Strike First, Strike Hard, No Guilliman!: Finding Your Playstyle
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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6 - Friends Don’t Make Friends Play T'au: Erik's Reluctant T'au Game Recap
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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5 - What is Love? 40K Don't Hurt Me: A Game of "Yes, No, Maybe So" on All Aspects of the 40K Experience
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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4 - Silly Necrons. Tricks are for Aeldari!: Our First Experiences in 40K
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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3 - What's Your 40K “Jenny”?: The Factions We Love That Don't Love Us Back
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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2 - We are our faction, we are legion: Faction Identity in 40K
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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1 - Help! My friend plays Aeldari and I want to choke him out: Faction Friction in a 40K Group
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Aug 24, 2025 |