Grown Men Playing with Toys

About Grown Men Playing with Toys

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!”

Publisher

Steve and Erik

Category

leisure · leisure · leisure

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

24 Aug 2025

Latest episode

19 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

52 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   19 Oct 2026

   52 - It’s a Trap!: Stress-Testing Lists and Knowing Your Lose Condition

   Send us Fan Mail The last balance update dropped Necrons Canoptek Court to 2 Detachment Points and Cousin Josh was ready to celebrate. Erik saw it and called it fool’s gold before the ink was dry on the update. The guys use that disagreement as a case study in how to stress-test a list before you fall in love with it and why knowing your lose condition matters just as much as knowing your win condition. Along the way they cover: Two DP, two opinions — why Josh and Steve saw new detachment pai...

2. 

   5 Oct 2026

   51 - Show Me the Doctrines!: Breaking Down the New Space Marine Codex

   Send us Fan Mail The Space Marine codex is here and Erik is more excited than he's been about anything not named Emperor's Children. With Cousin Josh along for the ride, the guys dig into how swapping Oath of Moment for combat doctrines changes the way Erik builds and plays his Space Marines' lists, as well as what he is worried that his opponent will do to counter those lists. Along the way they cover: Tops down list building — Erik walks through how he starts list building with a play style...

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   27 Sept 2026

   50 – Hold On to Your Butts: Riding the 11th Edition Codex Rollercoaster

   Send us Fan Mail Erik opens with a feeling of the day that turns Steve's stomach. With the Orks codex out, Space Marines days away, Custodes about to be on preorder, and balance updates coming fast, 11th Edition feels like the top of a rollercoaster's first hill. The guys dig into why 15-detachment codexes and rapid balancing can cause analysis paralysis and how to get your footing back, both as the player and as the opponent across the table. Along the way they cover: The Ork paralysis prob...

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

6 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

9 ratings

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