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.
Man alive, this one we got weird with. Partially it's because we recorded so late, but we have a wide ranging and in depth set of conversations on neglected games, returning to older designs, and som…
Happy Thanksgiving Week BATT Family! We hope that you'll be able to find a bit of relaxation this weekend (at least until Rivalry Week kicks off on Saturday). In the spirit of trying to bring people …
This week's episode feels like we were just focused on talking about production quality and storage (considering that Freedom Five delivered yesterday, that can only be kismet for how rough that game…
Ahh, it's nice to be back to a regular episode again. We have an esoteric topic of the week, talk about all the games that we played recently, take a nostalgic dive back into some games that you may …
BATT Family! It's been a busy month of super cool Kickstarters coming out and we ALSO got a pretty sick delivery from our friends at IV Studios. We give Tend the full preview/review treatment to help…
Hey hey BATT Family! Today we are doing another separate review in support of our friends at Grand Gamers Guild and their new Holiday Hijinks Kickstarter campaign. The Holiday Hijinks themselves are …
Welcome BATT Family to Episode 10 - The Top Ten Thematic Games! This is an odd episode for us at this point, because this was actually recorded fairly early into the production run but we needed to g…
Hey Madcala backers! Thanks so much for joining us for this little bonus episode for the Kickstart campaign. We hope to have you join us for the rest of our content as well. As a reminder, Madcala's …
Welcome to the off week odds and ends episode! A variety of topics are being put out today, mostly extra conversation from Episode 9 with James Hudson. In addition to those topics, we've add in our c…
It's the best time of the year: Spooky Season! And darn it if Mark and Scott didn't forget to record a segment on this for release in an October episode. The joy of not considering release dates duri…
This week's episode is one that Mark and Scott had an absolute blast recording and are still pumped that it happened. We have the inimitable James Hudson from Druid City Games on with this today and …
Mark and Scott take on two games of the Flatout Trilogy, Calico and Cascadia, and break down the way the games work, why they like the one they do, and what they don't enjoy in the other. At the end …
This episode's segments:
00:00:00 - Intro / How Our Reviews Work
00:03:31 - Review: Intent to Kill
00:23:17 - Review: Neon
00:39:51 - Outro
Thank you so much to Hobby World for providing us the copie…
Another themed episode, this week we discuss solo modes and all the associated fun around that. We had a lot to say on it - really an enormous amount as it turned out - so one of the segments is bein…
The cursed episode finally releases! We had to take three swings at recording this one between tornadoes, corrupted audio, and just finding the time to get it all put together. This is one of our fav…
Surprise! It's an extra little piece of bonus content for your Friday. Roleplaying provides insanely fun stories, some of which become that legendary status among groups. This is a way for us to tell…
While we're adjusting to the editing process of multi-track recording, here's a random assortment of extra stuff that we've recorded and not released yet. We hope you enjoy the bloopers as much as we…
This was some of the most fun we've had in an episode so far. We cover a wide range of games that we love (and one that Scott mostly can't stand) and focus on the idea of what's the best player count…
On our off weeks, we still try and get you all the content your heart desires. So this time around, Mark talks about the 5 Games To Transition a Game Night with. Games that are used to start or end a…