A podcast for anybody interested in the board gaming hobby and industry. Come for the thoughts on the games that are coming out and stay for the segment where we make each other play games we normally wouldn’t. A bi-weekly main episode with your hosts Mark, Scott, and Jason and lots of off week content otherwise.
Hey hey BATT Family! Thanks for the wait on this main episode to come out! August, even removing Gen Con from the equation, turned into (politely) a lot for the entire BATT crew. Between medical scar…
Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome to the review for Endangered (Second Edition). This was provided to us by Grand Gamers Guild in support of their new Kickstarter campaign for Endangered: Australia, which…
Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome to the final Odds and Ends episode of Season 1! You read that right. We're going to be giving a lot more detail a the beginning of the episode, but basically we're going …
Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome to our series of reviews for the brand new, small box IV Studios games. In this review we'll be taking a look at Pillars of Fate. Pillars of Fate is the new 2 player only…
Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome to our series of reviews for the brand new, small box IV Studios games. In this review we'll be taking a look at Graft, the new small box drafting and push your luck game…
Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome to our series of reviews for the brand new, small box IV Studios games. In this review we'll be taking a look at Time to Panic. In Time to Panic, you're trying to repair …
Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome to our review for Vantage. This is not a sponsored review, but Jason and I were provided our copies of the game as compensation for working the booth at GenCon. We refer …
Hey hey BATT Family! GenCon 2025 is ONE WEEK AWAY! That means that it is perfect timing to get out the GenCon preview list. We recorded this list on July 9th when there were 499 games on the list. Wh…
Welcome back to extra BATT content! This episode is a return to our series of The Games That Made Us. While Mark is finishing up the edit on the GenCon preview, we still wanted to make sure that we g…
Hey hey BATT Family! We have another sponsored review from Hobby World, this time their family game Tales of Tails. This is a light weight, take that, dungeon crawler featuring dogtaurs. It's a game …
Hey hey BATT Family! We are back with another sponsored review, this time provided by Hobby World. Space Bureau is an action selection, pick up and deliver game for 1-4 players. It has a fun vibe abo…
Hey hey BATT Family! Thanks for coming on back for the next full episode of the show! We apologize for the extra week on the release of this episode. Things just haven't been slowing down. We're cons…
Hey hey BATT Family! We are stoked to take part in the Kickstarter launch for IV Studios' next game, Realm of Reckoning. We spent an enormous amount of time with it because we did enjoy it as much as…
Hey hey BATT Family! This time around we've got another review copy that was provided to us by Hobby World of the game The First Tsar: Ivan the Terrible. This was designed by Stan Kordonskiy with art…
Hey hey BATT Family! We've got another review for you this week, Neodreams from Hobby World and designer Ivan Lashin. Spoiler alert: we both really, really like it. This game was given to us by the t…
Hey hey BATT Family! Thanks for coming on back for the next full episode of the show! We apologize for the extra week on the release of this episode. There has been a lot of personal stuff going on w…
Hey hey BATT Family! Today Mark is going to dive very heavily into Kingsburg 3rd edition. This is a review of the game as a whole and a comparison of the various editions of the game. The various asp…
Hey hey BATT Family! Today we are going to be reviewing S’mores Galore which was provided to us by Grand Gamers Guild. This is a very lightweight, family game where you'll be drafting cards from the …
Hey hey BATT Family! Today we are going to be reviewing Pass which was provided to us by Grand Gamers Guild. This is lightweight, ladder climbing/card shedding game for 1-4 players and takes approxim…
Hey hey BATT Family! Thanks for coming on back for the next full episode of the show! If you've joined in after our recent interview with Jamey Stegmaier, thanks for coming back around! This week we …