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Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome to Episode 34! Despite what our intro says, we are actually releasing this as 34. I should have cut all that episode 33 stuff out except I found it hilarious on a meta level for myself, hence why it's still there. We decided to shift some recordings around and that's why this ended up where it did. Turns out that it's not the only flub I made but it all hangs together...

Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome to Episode 33 and this one is a super special episode for us. See around Mark's birthday in March each year is MacWagCon and we just play games starting at 7p on Friday and go absurdly late for the next couple days. When we finally wrap up late on Sunday, we're all exhausted. This year's con was the biggest yet and we had some incredible guests join in - including our...

Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome to a little piece of bonus content where we got to sit down and record a conversation with the owners of Victory Roll Café. We had the best of intentions for this to be a formal, sit-down interview but it devolved into us just having too much fun. Add in that they were taking time out of their Holiday Party which had the store completely wall to wall packed and I'm ama...

Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome to the review for Kaiser Cucumber & the Gangs of McChanicle Corners. This was provided to us by the folks over at Fight in a Box. Kaiser Cucumber is a great filler social deduction game 2-4 players (or 1-4 with the expansion). Once more we were entirely charmed by the art and had a good time with this one. Check out our review, go pick it up from Fight in a Box's w...

Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome to the review for Puppies or Poop. This was provided to us by the folks over at Fight in a Box. Puppies or Poop is a terribly silly little game about trying to avoid stepping in dog doo for 2-4 players. We were entirely charmed by the art and had a good time with this one. Check out our review, go pick it up from Fight in a Box's webstore (linked below) and then let us...

Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome to all the new folks that have come into the fold from the Brass content! We're stoked to have you with us.  This episode is one where clearly the crew was having too much fun taking shots at each other. This time around we decided to break down those ambiguous terms of luck, tactics, and strategy to try and have a defined conversation; Scott nailed us with yet another...

Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome to this standalone interview we were lucky enough to have with Tenpenny Parks designer, Nate Linhart. We recorded this right around the time of the Kickstarter campaign going live for the brand new expansions, Winter Lights and Spooky Nights and Innovation and somehow missed releasing it in time for that. So in support of their pledge manager, which is closing next wee...

Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome to this preview for Brass: Pittsburgh in support of their Gamefound campaign! The new standalone version, and the first one in eight years, of Brass from Roxley Games. This new game is going to feel both familiar to players of Birmingham as well as radically different for all the changes it makes. In this particular episode we're actually comparing all three versions o...

Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome to this preview for Brass: Pittsburgh in support of their Gamefound campaign! The new standalone version, and the first one in eight years, of Brass from Roxley Games. This new game is going to feel both familiar to players of Birmingham as well as radically different for all the changes it makes. In this preview we're specifically previewing Brass: Pittsburgh itself....

Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome to this review for Brass: Birmingham! Brass: Birmingham is a 2-4 player highly interactive, economic, heavy Euro game that we already had within the BATT Library. We are doing this in leadup to the release of Brass: Pittsburgh's Gamefound campaign next week. You can find the links to that below. Brass: Birmingham is designed by Martin Wallace, Gavin Brown, and Matt Tol...

Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome to this sponsored review for Brass: Lancashire! Brass: Lancashire is a 2-4 player highly interactive, economic, heavy Euro game that was provided to us by the publisher Roxley Games. We are doing this in leadup to the release of Brass: Pittsburgh's Gamefound campaign next week. You can find the links to that below. Brass: Lancashire is designed by Martin Wallace and ha...

Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome to this Kickstarter preview for Fractured Sky: Awakening! The new expansion for the big box game Fractured Sky from IV Studios. This expansion is going to provide players with four brand new mix and match modules to put into all of their sessions of the game. Be sure to check the episode out, hit up their Kickstarter page, and then get in touch with us about what you t...

Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome to this Kickstarter preview for Soar! The new 2-5 player bidding game from the mad scientists over at IV Studios, this is an excellent small box filler game. Be sure to check the episode out, hit up their Kickstarter page, and then get in touch with us about what you think about Soar! The link to the Kickstarter campaign is below and we hope you check it out, all three...

Hey BATT Family! We recorded this episode LIVE!!! at PopiCon 2026 on January 31, 2026. This was a really fun, weird, what-if type of list similar to what we did at PopiCon last year. It's gone through a light editing pass to mostly condense the conversation and keep it from being overly long with a lot of the uhms and pauses, but you should feel like you were part of our audience that evening! Tha...

Hey hey BATT Family! Episode 31 is here for your auditory enjoyment. This one is another episode that we had way too much fun recording.  We are lucky enough to be joined by D. Brad Talton, President and Owner of Level 99 Games, on the show this time around. What you are hearing is a much smaller subset of the conversations that we had with him because we got pretty deep into the inside baseball o...

Hey hey BATT Family! Sorry to overload you with top ten lists recently, but here is Episode 30! As it's a multiple of five it is a top ten list and this week's episode is about Simultaneous Action games. This was recorded at Gen Con on July 30th, 2025 in the BATT hotel room, so it's a bit more echoey than usual. This topic was brought by the guest of the show, Derian, who has been a good friend of...

Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome to our LIVE Top Ten Episode! This time Scott, Jason, and Mark are all running down their top ten games of all time! This was recorded live at Victory Roll Cafe on December 17th, 2025 and so it's going to have the ambient audio of a live cafe in the background. This was an absolute blast for us to do and we had such a great vibe of people coming and going. This is mostl...

Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome to another top ten list! This time Mark and Scott are running down their best games of 2025! This was a great episode to record and it was amazing to realize how many games that we had played that released this year for us to actually be able to do this list. There are some really excellent games here, especially ones that we weren't expecting to be on at all. We hope...

Hey hey BATT Family! Heck Yeah Episode 29! Scott and I had a great time recording this one, but it was a bummer Jason couldn't join us since he was sick on the night of recording. We decided to bring back the Mechanics Shop and discuss one of our favourite mechanisms: Tile Laying! We also got to have a long conversation about one of Mark's favourite games for Why Did It Take So Long to Play That....

Hey hey BATT Family! Huzzah for Episode 28! I would really love for one of these edits to go a lot smoother and thankfully I think this should be the last super difficult one for a while. Regardless! We have AJ from Van Ryder Games on with us and had an absolute blast talking with him! We got to talk the wide array of Van Ryder's games, what games to show to new people, and I got to absolutely tra...

Hey hey BATT Family! We are so excited to be back in your ears with Episode 27. Featuring the inimitable Chris Yi from the Dice Tower, we got to have our full episode with him in every segment. We got to talk what it's like to go back and focus on older games, try out a new version of what Mark considers a classic, and just riff off of each other a lot. We had a wonderful time with this recording...

Hey hey BATT Family! The first major episode of Season Two is here! This was by far the biggest episode and most complex edit I've had to do yet. We have a great conversation with Curt Covert from Smirk and Dagger games for this episode and we break down the way they've seen the hobby change in the 22 years of their existence. Jason also has his first deployment of a game at Mark and Scott for Why...

Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome to this Kickstarter preview for Honor's End! The new 1-4 player co-op deckbuilding game from the mad scientists over at IV Studios, this is a beast of a game that has both an adventure mode as well as a full campaign. Today we are going to be specifically previewing that adventure mode and talking about how well the game plays at the 2-4 player ranges. Featuring wonder...

Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome to this Kickstarter preview for Rolling in Wonderland! The new 2-4 player dice placement and set collection game from Bellows Intent and Borogove Games, this is mid-lightweight game where you'll be rolling a handful of dice and triggering all sorts of asymmetric abilities. Today we are going to be covering everything the game is about as well as touching on some of the...

Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome to Season Two of the podcast! We've got a whole slew of cool things planned for the season and we wanted to ease you in with the reintroduction of the BATT hosts, this time featuring Jason! We'll be releasing Episode 26 on Friday because we didn't want to overload you with four different episodes on the same day. We hope you're as excited as we are for the content we'v...