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 think about Awakening! The link to the Kickstarter campaign is below and we hope you check it out! Also, listen to the end for us to revise our general opinions on Fractured Sky - turns out we'd been misinterpreting a rule that completely changed the way we felt about the game overall.

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This episode's segments:

00:00:00 - Intro

00:01:09 - Module 1: Payloads

00:03:29 - Module 2: Bounties

00:06:55 - Module 3: Flagships

00:11:22 - Module 4: Guardians

00:15:21 - Mea Culpa and Final Thoughts

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1) The Kickstarter Link! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ivstudios/fractured-sky-awakening

2) IV Studio's Website: https://shop.iv.studio

3) IV's Discord: https://discord.gg/iv-games-611272410880016390

4) Awakening's BGG Link: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgameexpansion/464142/fractured-sky-awakening

5) And yes, Mark said 5/7/9 players in base game Veiled Fate. We know that base box only goes up to 8 but he's played it just so much (even at the higher counts) that its an automatic thing out of his mouth.

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Grand Gamers Guild! https://grandgamersguild.com. Use Discount Code BATT10 to make sure that we are supported AND you let them know that we sent you.

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You can email us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com.

We finally put a linktree together! https://linktr.ee/boardallthetime

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

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We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music.

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! Thanks again to PopiCon for hosting us and thank you so much for checking this episode out and we'll catch you on the next one!

00:00:00 - Intro

00:02:57 - List Criteria

00:05:07 - Number 10s

00:10:58 - Number 9s

00:17:34 - Number 8s

00:23:03 - Number 7s

00:28:20 - Number 6s

00:34:13 - Number 5s

00:41:25 - Number 4s

00:49:13 - Number 3s

00:56:28 - Number 2s

01:04:15 - Number 1s

01:17:33 - Audience Suggestions

01:21:03 - Outro

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We'd like to thank our sponsors as well:

Grand Gamers Guild! https://grandgamersguild.com. Use Discount Code BATT10 to make sure that we are supported AND you let them know that we sent you.

You can find the pledge manager for Endeavor: Deep Sea Uncharted Waters at the following site: https://grand-gamers-guild.pledgemanager.com/projects/endeavor-deep-sea-uncharted-waters/participate.

Secret Door Games! They can be found at https://www.secretdoorgames.org or 215 S. Main St, Elkhart Indiana 46514.

Meeple Source! https://meeplesource.com/?PARTNER=battg Be sure to keep that partner bit (?PARTNER=battg) on the end of any link on their site, and you'll get us our affiliate linking!

Victory Roll Cafe! https://victoryrollcafe.com or 711 W McKinley Ave, Mishawaka, IN 46545.

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You can email us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com.

We finally put a linktree together! https://linktr.ee/boardallthetime

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

Theater Geeks! https://www.twitch.tv/theatergeeks

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We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music.