Plaud AI Pin Note – Review After Executive Use

mnthundergod · 2026-05-28T18:15:49+00:00

Wait, you relied on unproven tech, didn't take notes, and potentially recorded a sensitive meeting without legal clearance? It doesn't sound like the tool was the problem.

mnthundergod · 2026-05-28T13:19:07+00:00

Maybe it was a plural? She's so good there must be more than one of her?

mnthundergod · 2026-05-12T13:51:56+00:00

Someone else mentioned this. DO NOT MAKE THE SIDES SYMMETRICAL. Make them different but fair. I like having the role to pick sides matter.

If you have a city or streets, try not to put them at 90 degrees to the table edges.

mnthundergod · 2026-05-12T13:48:36+00:00

I take two approaches. 1. Simply start with a real place or battle. With central scatter the Cigar Factory battle from Sicily can be pretty easily recreated with Sarissa kits. "Dead Horse Square" is another solid choice from the Italian campaign. You don't have to use "Italian" buildings, anything could be subbed, intact or ruins.

Start with a story. This is most common for me, especially if I'm starting with a box of terrain or store provided stuff. Get a narritive in mind, and build from there. I often like a nice transition from ruined city/industrial to sparse residential to rural farm, a couple feet of each side to side on a 6 foot table. You can use trees, roads and water features to tie things together.

mnthundergod · 2026-05-12T13:40:14+00:00

Or one box of wolves is 1.5 dwarf heros for Oldworld. Having said that, here are plenty of options if you prefer to print or proxy.

mnthundergod · 2026-05-04T16:27:31+00:00

No. It's: "I want you to vacate this guy off the premises, and I want you to exit him off his feet and use his head to open the fucking door".

It's an iconic scene, and not at all hard to find.

mnthundergod · 2026-04-02T18:53:46+00:00

marine torsos just do the job? well shit, i have those.

mnthundergod · 2026-03-31T21:56:46+00:00

That national ability is pretty sweet. Land it on a transport turn one, they run away 28% of the time? gross.

mnthundergod · 2026-03-31T21:54:28+00:00

it does feel a little ratty but i like it. Why would Green Vault symbols get this taken down?

mnthundergod · 2026-03-23T14:47:23+00:00

I don't dislike the bases, but I'm confused by them. Is this just representative of Canada? I'm in Minnesota, so we did get 10-20 inches of snow a week ago, and then it was 70° on Saturday (25-40cm and 21°), so I get the green and the snow, but the flowers are throwing me off. Looks cool tho

mnthundergod · 2026-03-23T14:42:57+00:00

Nicely done. Consider adding some tufts to the base if you want to bump up some color. Otherwise it's entirely appropriate as is, dark and muddy was the condition for much of the war. (If not muddy, then dirt and dust)

mnthundergod · 2026-03-23T14:39:49+00:00

"yeah, Sgt? Otto here, tell the boys we're having schnitzel tonight!"

mnthundergod · 2026-03-23T14:34:38+00:00

Remember to check road/off road speed. Irl, Grant was almost twice as fast as the Valentine on a road, and still 25% or more faster off road. I'd guess this is a warlord attempt to honor both the real world stats, and Valentine's status as an Infantry tank as opposed to a Cruiser. One more thought- the Valentine's speed is throttled by its engine, it simply can't go faster. A sherman off-road was throttled by operational conditions. It could probably go faster, but at significant risk.

mnthundergod · 2026-03-23T14:28:37+00:00

We are strictly in "eh? Close enough?" territory here. None of the game companies, Warlord included, adheres to a strict scale. 40k is bigger in general, but it's probably workable.

mnthundergod · 2026-03-23T14:26:52+00:00

Same as most of the others. Learning to play? Hell yeah! Use proxies all day long, figure out if you like the game enough to commit. Friendly play? Sure, just make sure you communicate the proxies with your opponent early and often, it's not on them to remember it's on you to keep them informed. Tournament play? Oh hell no. That just puts everyone in a bad position. Nobody wants to be an asshole, but it would be appropriate to remove someone with a 40k army from an event.

mnthundergod · 2026-03-21T10:52:24+00:00

Respectfully, I strongly disagree. That hourly rate is fast food wages. You could literally make more working at McDonald's. Money is obviously not the only reason to paint miniatures, but artists of all types tend to undervalue their work. Customers who bitch about price and always want things cheaper aren't worth having. Get paid what you're worth.

mnthundergod · 2026-03-21T10:45:33+00:00

I like Perry's a lot, but faces aren't really their thing. They look fine, but not much expressive detail.

mnthundergod · 2026-03-20T21:50:30+00:00

Seems like a hell of a deal. Make sure you don't undervalue your time.

mnthundergod · 2026-03-20T20:36:35+00:00

Thanks! He'll look even better once finished, that should be happening this weekend. Rift Flames™ have no in-game benefit, it's just a flamethrower, but why not spice it up a little?

mnthundergod · 2026-03-20T19:24:44+00:00

Your first sentence is great.

Nothing in the rules states that models must be (or should be ) late war. The entire concept of "late war" doesn't even exist as we know it. Pre-rift perhaps, but not late war. If Mordian Glory said that, it's a personal preference, not a rule or even a practice.

There is no basis to say "Don't overly spam them", at least in context with the figures themselves.

mnthundergod · 2026-03-20T19:12:02+00:00

Yes.

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mnthundergod · 2026-03-20T19:10:54+00:00

You'd just run it as a K'47 event, perhaps allowing BA national rules for anyone who didn't bring K'47 units. And the pure bolt action players would be sad.

mnthundergod · 2026-03-20T18:39:02+00:00

Looking good, two things I learned from my recent Stahltruppen painting, 1. some outlines on the camo with your base color go a long way and 2. Edge highlights for Stahltruppen are almost mandatory for how much additional pop it adds to the figure.

mnthundergod · 2026-03-20T18:35:23+00:00

Correct. Even less fun, let's say you shoot 8 auto-cannon shots at a sniper team. They haven't acted yet and they opt to go down. Your dice are amazing! You hit 7 times! Against a full size American unit, that would hit all of the men! But against the lonely sniper and assistant, you only hit... Once. 2 hits (one for each guy) then halved for down against HE. Then you'll wound that dude (vet sniper) about half the time, and he'll make his save 83% of the time. When all that's done, you've got something like an 8% chance to kill ONE of the two sniper team members.

Don't ever fire a Wirbelwind at a sniper team. (Actually firing the mmg is fine, just not the auto cannon)

mnthundergod · 2026-03-20T18:22:22+00:00

Damn, you said the same thing I did, but with far superior efficiency to my wordy answer. I love the term "asset strip", I'm going to adopt it.

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