Part One of our Gen Con preview coverage, this more rambling and less structured than normal conversation with fellow Theater Geek Jason was recorded on July 3, 2024. In this half of the conversation, we're discussing what we do when we show up in Indy, the food we all like to eat (hiiii-yah!), and the non-gaming events that are fun to attend. In Part two we'll be discussing all the games we want to demo and pick up but you can listen to either part in either order and be just fine. 

This week, we head straight into the discussion and continue on to our longest episode yet. Our regular episodes will always try and be in that 45-60 minute range and we just barely tipped over this time. But we had a great time talking about old favourites, new reinterpretations, games that caught us entirely by surprise, and even accidentally kind of putting the same game on Table, Shelf, or Trade. Hope you enjoy it!

0:00 - Intro

0:19 - What's Been on the Table

9:12 - Topic of the Week: Why Should You Return to a Game?

25:22 - Why Did I Play That?: Isle of Cats Explore and Draw

37:40 - Table, Shelf, or Trade

52:59 - Rotating Segment: Surprise Party

1:00:11 - Outro

We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music as well as mentioning our sponsors one more time, Robin's Nerd Supplies and Eco Owl Press.

We're settling in and we're back to talk more board games. This week we each brought more games to talk about than the previous episodes, we torture Scott with an abstract area control game, introduce a new rotating segment, and have a guest baby at the end. We also have deployed a new intro and outro, please give us feedback on what you think!

0:00 - Intro

0:29 - What's Been on the Table

9:01 - Topic of the Week: Games Not Meeting Our Expectations

20:11 - Why Did I Play That?: Iwari

29:07 - Table, Shelf, or Trade

39:40 - Rotating Segment: HVAC

48:33 - Outro

We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the new intro/outro music as well as mentioning our sponsors one more time, Robin's Nerd Supplies and Eco Owl Press.

We're back and we have a wide array of games that we discuss this time around. We talk about friends that we've met in the industry, games we are excited for, and memorialize a lost designer.

This episode's segments:

0:00 - Intro

0:37 - What's Been on the Table

7:38 - Topic of the Week: Do You Have a Rating System?

22:04 - Why Did I Play That?

29:36 - Table, Shelf, or Trade

35:45 - TST Note

36:42 - Visions of the Future

46:08 - Outro

Our first main episode! We're stoked to get it launched and have you listen to it. This episode's segments:

0:00 - Intro

1:00 - What's Been on the Table

6:00 - Topic of the Week: Collection Management

11:35 - Why Did I Play That?

20:45 - Table, Shelf, or Trade

40:03 - The Archives

50:03 - Outro

We decided to launch, and release our main episodes, on Tuesdays. So in the spirit of still providing content when we promised it. here's the first of a series that Scott and I will be embarking on. We're going to have discussions about the games that helped form us both as gamers and as people. This one was particularly close to my heart and so I hope you enjoy it! We'll see you with Episode 1 on Tuesday!

Our Episode 0 Supplemental content while we get ready to release the rest of the series. We had a blast talking about our top ten favourite games and hope that you enjoy coming along with us for this. 

Hey hey! Welcome to the BATT Family. In this episode 0, we talk about who we are as hosts, our experience and tastes within the board gaming hobby, and our goals for the pod as a whole. We're so excited you've decided to join us!