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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 have a quick bite to read, here you go: Through the month of August you'll still be getting new episodes (24 and 25), new reviews, everything you're used to. This is all content that we recorded prior to Gen Con and will be coming out on normal scheduling. We are, however, going mostly dark in September. This is to let us get more played, get some new content in the can without having to worry about anything, and making sure we're ready to go on all of our new ideas. You'll still get a couple of things (we have a Kickstarter we'll be supporting as well as the final episode of The Games That Made Us) to make sure you don't lose the feed, but the sheer amount of stuff we've been releasing like we have will slow to a trickle.  On Tuesday October 7th, we'll be returning with "Season Two"! We've got some really cool plans set in place. First, Jason is now just a full time host with us. There may be the occasional episode without one of the three of us due to life getting in the way, but we expect fully to be a trio moving forward. He's been great on the show and he's helped us out enormously over the past few months with a variety of things. It just feels right to have him on. Next, we're going to be releasing a new subseries we're calling the "Expansion Packs". These are mostly going to be the off-week, non-review content where we'll be covering singular topics. The Mechanic's Shop may end up in here, New Player Journeys, as well as a super cool segment we're calling "Extra Roles." Extra Roles is going to be us having board gaming industry figures, from publishers, designers, and artists, to social media managers or playtest leads, or similar from our favourite companies coming on. This is a way for us to continue to be friends with the board gaming industry and just get more love for them out there. We've already had some really cool people say that they'd like to be on the show and we've been scheduling like mad. Our first episode of the season, Episode 26, will not only feature Jason but a designer/publisher that I'm VERY excited to have on. Some really cool stuff coming down that pipeline. You can also expect the first appearances of "Dusting Off" and some more segments in the Roleplaying Legends series to keep things spicy.  Be sure to keep tuned into us until that point, but remember! Tuesday October 7th is the date for the new season! --- CONTENT WARNING: This episode is marked explicit because of the swearing in the blooper reel. If nothing else, you can see how tough it can be for us to maintain perfect professionalism while recording. It's honestly a lot less that it was in prior O&Es but because we try and maintain a clean rating overall, it's still worth putting the label on.  --- This episode's segments: 00:00:00 - Intro  00:00:38 - Channel Update 00:04:35 - Post-Jamey Tariff Intro 00:05:11 - Post-Jamey Tariff Comments 00:07:04 - Scott the Tanner Intro 00:07:27 - The Story of Scott the Tanner  00:08:44 - Win, Lose, or Banana Intro 00:09:07 - The Story of Win, Lose or Banana 00:10:14 - Top 10 of 2025 Honorable Mentions Intro 00:10:34 - Top 10 of 2025 Honorable Mentions  00:15:36 - Top 10 Games We Like to Teach Honorable Mentions Intro 00:16:04 - Top 10 Games We Like to Teach Honorable Mentions  00:28:10 - Top 10 Best Games We Will Never Play Again Honorable Mentions Intro 00:28:52 - Top 10 Best Games We Will Never Play Again Honorable Mentions  00:42:34 - Outro 00:43:13 - Blooper Reel --- Notes! 1) It's always a surprise to me when assembling all of this stuff, of how much it I don't think even works in these episodes. There are a surprising amount of bits that just don't even make the cut here. Hopefully you enjoy this episode, it was fun to go through all the scraps and see what was left to dust off and trim up for you all to hear.  2) In the segment about the Top 10 of 2025 Honorable Mentions, I said that I had already stated my number 12. If you don't remember what it was, then you'll just have to go listen to that episode again! 3) Tuesday! October 7th! Season Two! WOO WOO WOO! --- You can email us at [email protected]. We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time.  We're on BlueSky now and loving it! At this point it really feels like BlueSky is for board gaming, so definitely check us out on there at https://bsky.app/profile/boardallthetime.bsky.social If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6 We'd like to thank our sponsors as well: Robin's Nerd Supply: www.robinsnerdsupply.com Eco Owl Press: www.ecoowlpress.com  We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

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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 players placing cards within 3 lanes over the course of 3 rounds called ages. This game will be using all of the characters as introducted between Veiled Fate and it's Tribunal expansion and maintain the Scorpion/Feather structure that you may be used to from those games. While you do not have to have played the other two games in the series, having the familiarity of them and how they operate will make onboarding with this game much easier. A game of Pillars of Fate will take you about 30 minutes per session. We were provided this copy by IV and as such this is a sponsored review of the deluxe edition of the game that will be available at Gen Con later this week.  --- This episode's segments: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:55 - How the Game Plays 00:08:07 - Learning Curve / Ease of Teach 00:09:35 - Artwork / Components / Iconography 00:12:44 - Solo Mode / Player Count / Replayability 00:14:21 - What's to Like, What's to Dislike  00:18:22 - Recommendations 00:20:31 - Final Thoughts  00:21:57 - Outro ---   Notes! 1) Once more, you can find IV Studios at Booth 2239 at Gen Con and the game will be releasing at $30.  --- You can email us at [email protected]. We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time.  We're on BlueSky now and loving it! At this point it really feels like BlueSky is for board gaming, so definitely check us out on there at https://bsky.app/profile/boardallthetime.bsky.social If you would like to check out Mark's Top 100 list, it can be found at: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/347553/top-100-games-2024-edition If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6 We'd like to thank our sponsors as well: Robin's Nerd Supply: www.robinsnerdsupply.com Eco Owl Press: www.ecoowlpress.com  We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

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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 you can very much see the threads connecting the two games together if you've played them - essentially the card rows you'll be building in Graft are the manifest that you assemble by stamping in Tend - you certainly do not need to play one to know the other. Graft is the much, much lighter and shorter game for 3-5 players and will take you about 30 minutes per session. We were provided this copy by IV and as such this is a sponsored review of the deluxe edition of the game that will be available at Gen Con later this week.  --- This episode's segments: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:54 - How the Game Plays 00:07:22 - Learning Curve / Ease of Teach 00:09:29 - Artwork / Components / Iconography 00:12:43 - Solo Mode / Player Count / Replayability 00:15:08 - What's to Like, What's to Dislike  00:18:13 - Recommendations 00:19:18 - Final Thoughts  00:21:57 - Outro ---   Notes! 1) Once more, you can find IV Studios at Booth 2239 at Gen Con and the game will be releasing at $30.  --- You can email us at [email protected]. We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time.  We're on BlueSky now and loving it! At this point it really feels like BlueSky is for board gaming, so definitely check us out on there at https://bsky.app/profile/boardallthetime.bsky.social If you would like to check out Mark's Top 100 list, it can be found at: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/347553/top-100-games-2024-edition If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6 We'd like to thank our sponsors as well: Robin's Nerd Supply: www.robinsnerdsupply.com Eco Owl Press: www.ecoowlpress.com  We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

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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 minutes per session. Your goal is to fully align a series of cards numbered 1-36 into as correct of an order as possible. We were provided this copy by IV and as such this is a sponsored review of the deluxe edition of the game that will be available at Gen Con later this week.  --- This episode's segments: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:01 - How the Game Plays 00:08:36 - Learning Curve / Ease of Teach 00:10:20 - Artwork / Components / Iconography 00:14:03 - Solo Mode / Player Count / Replayability 00:18:03 - What's to Like, What's to Dislike  00:23:40 - Recommendations 00:25:16 - Final Thoughts  00:26:39 - Outro ---   Notes! 1) Once more, you can find IV Studios at Booth 2239 at Gen Con and the game will be releasing at $30.  --- You can email us at [email protected]. We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time.  We're on BlueSky now and loving it! At this point it really feels like BlueSky is for board gaming, so definitely check us out on there at https://bsky.app/profile/boardallthetime.bsky.social If you would like to check out Mark's Top 100 list, it can be found at: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/347553/top-100-games-2024-edition If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6 We'd like to thank our sponsors as well: Robin's Nerd Supply: www.robinsnerdsupply.com Eco Owl Press: www.ecoowlpress.com  We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

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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 that we could accurately teach it at GenCon. Stonemaier did not ask for this review and we did get permission to do this ahead of time just in case. Regardless! We like the game quite a bit. If you're concerned about any spoilers here, we drop our scores within the first few minutes before explaining anything at all about the game so that way you don't have to worry about that. We actually managed to not spoil any of the content through our discussions but we also get that certain audiences don't want to know anything beyond the basic dice/card interactions before opening the box and we wanted to respect that. Vantage is a huge open world sandbox game comprised of over 1700 cards for 1-6 players and was designed by Jamey Stegmaier over the course of eight years. Come crash land on the planet with us to learn what we thought about the game and then once you've gotten to do so let us know your opinions on it at [email protected]! --- This episode's segments: 00:00:00 - Intro / Scores / Non-Spoiler Comments 00:03:08 - How the Game Plays 00:10:25 - Learning Curve / Ease of Teach 00:15:01 - Artwork / Components / Iconography 00:22:58 - Replayability / Player Count / Solo Mode 00:30:12 - What's to Like, What's to Dislike  00:53:01 - Final Thoughts  00:56:29 - Outro ---   Notes! 1) Jason definitely jumped in and helped me explain the game a bit because of how late things were when we recorded and I just started forgetting a couple of key things. So thanks for the assist Jason! 2) Around the 40 minute mark you can just hear Mark's 4 year old jumping in the background for a couple minutes. It's not loud but it is there, so sorry about that. The joys of having a basement studio. 3) Scott was around for this entire recording session. He just let Jason and I go nuts and didn't have much additional to add beyond what we all said. --- You can email us at [email protected]. We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time.  We're on BlueSky now and loving it! At this point it really feels like BlueSky is for board gaming, so definitely check us out on there at https://bsky.app/profile/boardallthetime.bsky.social If you would like to check out Mark's Top 100 list, it can be found at: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/347553/top-100-games-2024-edition If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6 We'd like to thank our sponsors as well: Robin's Nerd Supply: www.robinsnerdsupply.com Eco Owl Press: www.ecoowlpress.com  We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

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