Watch “Brass Birmingham Beginner Strategy,” a how-to-play guide for Brass: Birmingham from Unfussy Board Games on BoardGameVideo.
Description provided by Unfussy Board Games on YouTube:
This is a strategy guide for the board game Brass Birmingham which is from designer Martin Wallace and published by Roxley games. I talk about things to consider when you are deciding how to begin the game.
Also I provide a couple of basic strategy tips which should give you some direction for your first game of Brass Birmingham! You may have heard of the hot new strategy board game Anno 1800 - well this is from the same designer!
Images are from tabletopia.com where you can play the game online. It's not the published game on there but I very much enjoyed 10 games on tabletopia, blissfully unaware.
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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
