Watch “How to Play Brass: Birmingham – All You Need to Know (Rules) | Board Game Shortcut,” a how-to-play guide for Brass: Birmingham on BoardGameVideo.
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Learn Brass: Birmingham quickly and clearly!
This video explains the full rules, setup, actions, and scoring of the award-winning economic strategy game.
Brass: Birmingham is one of my all-time favorite board games, so I translated my original German tutorial into English to make it accessible to more players.
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⭕️ German Version - Deutsche Version: https://youtu.be/-PM0q7wx8WA
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⭕️ Brass: Birmingham instruction chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:30 Setup
04:06 Game structure overview
05:41 Build action
11:13 Network action (links)
12:21 Loan action
13:36 Sell action
16:41 Develop action
17:29 Scout action
18:42 Advise for playing actions
19:22 The end of a turn & round
20:03 The end of an era - final scoring
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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
