The Epic Battle for Normandy Board Game!

The epic chit based game Normandy is in the process of setup as of 6:30 Thursday Night. Tom and Dave were setting up tables, plexiglass, and maps earlier in the day to get ready for the setup of this game. This epic game is being prepared on a table in an L shape that measures 12 feet long and 4 feet wide.

Every Company that landed in the approx. 10 week long Normandy Campaign historically will be represented as we go forward with this game.

The British, Americans, Germans, Free French, Polish, and Canadians will all be landing on to liberate or defending the German positions on the beaches of Normandy and beyond.

Come on down and join us at Dragon Port Games & Comics!!

Starting Friday September 30th and ongoing, join in any time!

http://www.dragonportgames.com

Innistrad Magic Pre-Release Party!

Dragon Port Innistrad Magic Pre-Release Tournament. Sept. 24&25th

Dragon Port Games & Comics hosts another successful pre-release. With the largest turnout North of the Twin Cities Metro Area. Rex Korkolo for the first time ever won the main Event on both Saturday and Sunday. All prizes were from the new Innistrad set putting the new cards in our gaming communities hands almost a week before anyone else in the country. The format was sealed which means every players gets 6 packs of the new set and builds a deck for the tournament. This weekend the action continues with our Friday Night Magic release party on September 30th and Release Events on Saturday October 1st and Sunday October 2nd.

Friday Night Magic Starts at 6:30 but we will be running drafts as pods fill all night so we may have some going early. Then on Saturday and Sunday the action starts at Noon. The booster draft format will be explained at the event if you are not aware of how this format works. But its a fast fun way to get new cards and everyone has the same limited selection of cards.

See you this weekend!

World War 2 storms Dragon Port on Tuesdays. This week Dragon Port hosted Flames of War battles and a Normandy Beach landing scenario from The Battle for Normandy board game. Six of our regulars tonight played pickup games of this fantastic World War 2 Miniatures Game. This week is the first week since finishing up the epic Market Garden campaign where the Allies changed history by pulling out a win. The campaign had lasted 8 weeks and was close at the end after early German dominance, the Allies pulled out a victory for Historical British General Montgomery.

The Battle for Normandy was being played for the first time by 2 regular customers who are often involved in our Flames of War campaigns. They were working their way through the introduction scenario of the game with a few hundred chits involved. This is not a game for the faint of heart unless you are playing with some others who have played these types of games before. But this will be a blast with 6-8 people as we get involved in the game with 5 full sized poster maps linked together and we battle for the whole of France pushing inland after the D-Day Landings.

In other corners of the room we had some Magic going on using the Elder Dragon Highlander Rules and some Warhammer 40k. There is always Room at Dragon Port for games of all sorts while our scheduled events take place.

Why Games?

Why Games?
Why do we play games? Sounds like a bad line in a dating profile “I don’t want anyone who is going to play games” Sometimes games have this false imagine of being children’s pass times. Yes they are that but so much more in addition can be discovered within our games. There are such a wide variety of games that there may truly be a game for every person anywhere.

You can command a company of tanks with infantry platoons in support trying to cut off the last remaining soldiers of Hitler’s 3rd Reich in the Table Top Miniatures Game Flames of War. As you refight world war two battles and test your hand against other table top generals learning the history of the war and perhaps you can even top Old Blood and Guts Patton himself. I can be a mighty gnome fire mage from Azeroth using my Mouse and keyboard to slay the vile horde Orcs and Blood Elves in the World of WarCraft MMO. You can test your mettle fighting against a terrible breakout disease in the board game Pandemic. Can you and a team of your fellow players save the world from terrible contagion?

Games can be competitive, cooperative or a mix of both. Games can be highly technical and elaborate or a few lines on a paper or even betting the serial numbers on dollar bills. Games allow us to travel to fantastic worlds, historical times, and take on roles we likely will never experience otherwise. They can test our skill, our memory, our wits, and sometimes our patience as one broken Nintendo controller from my teenage years would surely attest. But they mirror us as people an outlet for hopes, dreams, and teach us new ways to think and solve problems. Games can help us grow as people, relax and challenge us as we see fit.

Games are whatever we want them to be and with friends whether they are real or imagined they can make our lives richer. The only thing standing in our way is finding which games to play and those friends who make them all
worthwhile.

Eldon “Donny” Krosch Jr.