The player mat with the night side showing. The player mats look just as good and also have a day and night side. The artwork on the board is beautiful – especially on the night side. It’s easier to see things with the day side, but the night side offers a richer theme. The board has two sides – a day side and a night side. A very simple ruleset with deep gameplay strategies. You’re not, and I think this makes the game great. Almost as if you must be missing something. The rulebook makes the rules seem too easy. Wow – What an amazing manual! They explain the rules incredibly well with plenty of images to go with the text.
The Kickstarter box is bigger to accommodate the poker style chips and sports its own insert.
The retail version of the box is so compact and filled to the brim with goodies. And I’m not talking about artwork beautiful (It’s that, too). It offers a very different story arc and experience from its predecessor. Increased Coal and Iron Market size – The price of coal and iron can now go up to £8 per cube, and that’s not uncommon.īrass: Birmingham is a sequel to Brass. Pottery – These behemoths of Birmingham offer huge VPs, but at an enormous cost and a need to plan. Each level of manufactured goods provides unique rewards, rather than just escalating in VPs, making it a more versatile (yet potentially more difficult) path vs cotton. Manufactured goods – Function like cotton, but features eight levels. Birmingham features three new industry types:īrewery – Produces precious beer barrels required to sell goods. The historical reason for having to consume beer is because fresh drinking water was in short supply back in those days. To sell cotton, pottery, or manufactured goods to these traders, you must “grease the wheels of industry” by consuming beer. Each of these traders is looking for a specific type of good in each game. These are randomized at the start of the game, making each game different. You must now sell your product through traders (merchants) located around the edges of the board. New “Sell” Systemīrewing has become a fundamental part of the culture in Birmingham. Iron, coal, and cotton are three industries that appear in both the original Brass as-well-as in Brass: Birmingham. This provides players with the opportunity to score much higher value canals in the first era and creates an interesting strategy with industry placement. Instead of each flipped industry tile giving a static 1 VP to all connected canals and rails, many industries give 0 or even 2 VPs. VPs are counted at the end of each era for the amount of Canals, Rails and established (flipped) industry tiles you have.īrass: Birmingham features dynamic scoring of Canals / Rails. To win the game, you must score the most VPs. The game plays over two halves: the Canal Era (years 1770-1830) and the Rail Era (years 1830-1870). (This action replaces Double Action Build in the original Brass.) The Actions:ġ) Build – Pay the required resources to place an industry tile.Ģ) Network – Add a rail/canal link to expand your network.ģ) Develop – Increase the Victory Point (VP) value of an industry.Ĥ) Sell – Sell your cotton, manufactured goods, or pottery.ĥ) Loan – Take a £30 loan and reduce your income.īrass: Birmingham also features a new sixth action:Ħ) Scout – Discard three cards to take a wild location and a wild industry card. Brass: Birmingham tells the story of competing entrepreneurs in Birmingham during the industrial revolution, between the years 1770-1870.Īs with its predecessor ( Brass / Brass: Lancashire), you must develop, build, and establish your industries and network to exploit low or high market demands.Įach round, players take turns according to the turn order track, which is determined by how much money you spent in the previous round and then you take two of the six available actions. Published by Wesley on FebruFebruBrass: Birmingham.īrass: Birmingham is an economic strategy game sequel to Martin Wallace’s 2007 masterpiece. Brass: Birmingham – One Of The Best Economic Strategy Games
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