Watch “Brass: Birmingham 4p Teaching, Play-through, & Round table by Heavy Cardboard,” a board game review for Brass: Birmingham on BoardGameVideo.
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Are you interested in learning how to play Brass: Birmingham? Here is your chance! Martin Fowler teaches you how to play in this video.
Later, he is joined by Edward, Jess, and Greg for a full-game play-through. Let us know what you think in the comments below, and don't forget to like and subscribe!
0:30 Video start
0:51 Intro
=======TEACH=======
3:05 Industrial Revolution Intro
5:14 Component overview
11:26 Purpose of the game
13:11 Basics - Industries
19:10 Basics - Connections
22:03 Transporting goods (coal, iron and beer)
26:05 Transporting finished goods (manufactured goods, cotton and pottery)
28:14 Player’s network
29:24 Links - scoring
30:25 Industries’ levels
31:52 A note about other editions of Brass
33:38 Game sequence
34:47 Actions
35:07 Build action
41:37 Sell action
43:51 Loan action
45:43 Scout action
46:59 Develop action
48:15 Network action
51:00 End of the round (turn order and income)
53:25 End of an era
54:23 End of the canal era
58:01 Rail era
=======PLAYTHROUGH=======
1:03:40 Game start
1:05:03 Round 1
1:17:45 Round 2
1:29:35 Round 3
1:44:34 Round 4
1:54:48 Round 5
2:06:27 Round 6
2:16:21 Round 7
2:25:56 Round 8
2:34:46 End of the canal era
2:40:13 Round 9
2:55:55 Round 10
3:07:35 Round 11
3:20:34 Round 12
3:29:53 Round 13
3:38:53 Round 14
3:48:48 Round 15
3:59:17 Round 16
4:06:57 End of the rail era
4:11:20 And the winner is…
4:11:28 Roundtable
4:18:26 Outro
BGG Game Link: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/224517/brass-birmingham
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Mainly reviews. Brass: Birmingham is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 46 reviews, 20 how-to-play guides, 15 recorded sessions, 7 unboxings, and 23 other videos.
2 - 4 players
60 - 120 min
Heavy weight: Expect a long teach
About Brass: Birmingham, from BoardGameGeek:
Brass: Birmingham is an economic strategy game sequel to Brass. Brass: Birmingham tells the story of competing entrepreneurs in Birmingham during the industrial revolution between the years of 1770 and 1870.
It offers a very different story arc and experience from its predecessor. As in its predecessor, you must develop, build and establish your industries and network in an effort to exploit low or high market demands. The game is played over two halves: the canal era (years 1770-1830) and the rail era (years 1830-1870). To win the game, score the most VPs. VPs are counted at the end of each half for the canals, rails and established (flipped) industry tiles.
Each round, players take turns according to the turn order track, receiving two actions to perform any of the following actions (found in the original game):
1) Build - Pay required resources and place an industry tile.
2) Network - Add a rail / canal link, expanding your network.
3) Develop - Increase the VP value of an industry.
4) Sell - Sell your cotton, manufactured goods and pottery.
5) Loan - Take a £30 loan and reduce your income.
Brass: Birmingham also features a new sixth action:
6) Scout - Discard three cards and take a wild location and wild industry card. (This action replaces Double Action Build in original Brass.)
Designers
Gavan Brown, Matt Tolman, Martin Wallace
Artists
Gavan Brown, Lina Cossette, David Forest, Gui Landgraf, Damien Mammoliti, Mr. Cuddington, Matt Tolman
