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Board All The Time
by Hero Unit Games and Theater Geeks
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.
Episodes
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The Where Have We Been Update (July 2026)
Hey hey BATT Family! It's been a minute since you've seen anything on the feed and we're really sorry about that. We are alive! Here's our sign of life! And the good news is that things should be returning to relatively normal here soon. We've got our Gen Con 2026 lists all recorded and ready to...
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Board All the Time Episode 34
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...
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Board All the Time Episode 33 (with Marc Specter)
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...
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Board All the Time Interviews: The Victory Roll Café (featuring AEW's Ruby Soho and Cool Hand Angelo Parker)
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…
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Reviews: Kaiser Cucumber & the Gangs of McChanicle Corners
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...
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Reviews: Puppies or Poop
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...
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Board All the Time Episode 32
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…
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Board All the Time Interviews: Nate Linhart, Designer of Tenpenny Parks
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...
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This or That: Brass Lancashire vs Birmingham vs Pittsburgh
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...
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Brass: Pittsburgh (from Roxley Games) Gamefound Preview
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...
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Reviews: Brass Birmingham
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...
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Reviews: Brass Lancashire
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...
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Fractured Sky: Awakening (from IV Studios) Kickstarter Preview
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…
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Soar (from IV Studios) Kickstarter Preview
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...
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Board All The Time LIVE: Top Ten Games That Deserve a Second Chance Sequel
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…
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Board All the Time Episode 31 (with D. Brad Talton Jr.)
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...
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Board All the Time Episode 30
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...
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Board All The Time LIVE: Top Ten Games of All Time for 2026
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…
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The Top 10 Games Released in 2025
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…
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Board All the Time Episode 29
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...
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Board All the Time Episode 28 (With AJ Porfirio)
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...
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Board All the Time Episode 27 (With Chris Yi)
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...
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Board All the Time Episode 26 (With Curt Covert)
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…
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Episode 0 Revisited - The Season Two Kickoff
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...
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Rolling in Wonderland (from Bellows Intent) Kickstarter Preview
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...
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Honor's End (from IV Studios) Kickstarter Preview
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...
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Reviews: Squirrel Away
Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome to this review for Squirrel Away! Squirrel Away is a 3-6 player bluffing game that was provided to us by the publisher Floodgate Games. It is designed by Clarence Simpson and is legitimately a wonderful game. If you like bluffing and raucous moments in party games,...
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Board All the Time Episode 25
Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome to Episode 25, another of our top ten lists with a special guest. This time was us getting Mark's good friend Austin onto the show to discuss the Top Ten Best Games We Don't Play Anymore. It's a fun topic for people who've played as many games for as long as we have…
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Reviews: FlipToons
Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome to this review for FlipToons! FlipToons was very kindly provided to us by ThunderWorks Games and is an autobattler for 1-4 players with a playtime of around 30 minutes. It's a game with few rules and an easy teach that might be great for your next game night. Check…
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Board All the Time Episode 24
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 scares and surgeries, job changes, and all manner of other things it just became the month where we...
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Endangered Review / Endangered: Australia Kickstarter Preview
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 goes live on September 2nd. Endangered is a co-op game for 1-4 players and takes about an hour…
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Off Week Odds and Ends 4 - The Channel Update Edition
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 to be taking a small break. The first few minutes of the episode cover this, but if you want to…
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Reviews: Pillars of Fate
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 game in the Veiled Fate series of games from IV. This game is a lane battler that will have…
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Reviews: Graft
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 from IV Studios set in the world of another of their games, the soon to be released Tend. While…
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Reviews: Time to Panic
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 a shattered timeline in this fully cooperative game for 1-4 players, taking approximately 30-45...
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Reviews: Vantage
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 to this within the episode itself, but to be clear we were given the game to learn and play so…
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Gen Con 2025 Preview: The Games
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. While another 70 or so were added since then, we're all still extremely happy with our lists and…
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The Games That Made Us - Star Fleet Battles
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 gave you content today the way we promised on BlueSky. So here is Scott talking about his love of...
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Reviews: Tales of Tails
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 for 2-4 players and lasts approximately 30-45 minutes. --- This episode's segments: 00:00:00…
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Reviews: Space Bureau
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 about it and will appeal to players that like to build action networks and explore a galaxy. The game...
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Board All The Time Episode 23
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 considering taking a small recording break during the month of August to just slow down, finalize a...
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Realm of Reckoning (from IV Studios) Kickstarter Preview
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 we did. This is a two to five player area control, drafting, bidding game that takes around…
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Reviews: The First Tsar: Ivan the Terrible
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 by Michele Esposito. If you like tactical, light-to-midweight Euro games then there is a lot in...
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Reviews: Neodreams
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 team at Hobby World, so keep that in mind but I really truly think you can be really pleased with...
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Board All The Time Episode 22
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 with all three of us over here. That said we're trying out a new editor! So hopefully episode 23…
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Reviews: Kingsburg 3rd Edition / Edition Comparison
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 aspects of all three will be discussed so if you're a long time fan of the game or a new player…
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Reviews: S’mores Galore
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 center of the table, managing a hand of cards, and fulfilling contracts by scoring S'mores...
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Reviews: Pass
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 approximately 15 minutes to play. We hope you enjoy the review and Pass itself! Feel free to hit us up on...
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Board All The Time Episode 21
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 got to have a dear friend of the show on to discuss the effects of colour vision issues in board...
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Board All the Time Interviews: Jamey Stegmaier on the Tariff Situation
Hey hey BATT Family! We had an incredible opportunity to sit down with Jamey Stegmaier from Stonemaier Games to discuss the current tariff situation, how it effects his business and the larger gaming industry as a whole, and some of the solutions he thinks could make the situation easier for...
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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.
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