Publishers Weekly considered it to not be "as consistently funny as [Pratchett's] earlier novels", but noted that "the dialogue is hilarious", and opined that although it lacked "rational narrative cause-and-effect", this "didn't matter";Men At Arms, by Terry Pratchett, reviewed at Publishers Weekly; published March 4, 1996; retrieved August 11, 2017 similarly, Kirkus Reviews found it to be "an about average installment" of an "always entertaining, sometimes hysterically funny series."Men at Arms, reviewed in Kirkus Reviews; published January 1, 1996; archived online May 20, 2010; retrieved April 2, 2022
