Roxley Games Brass: Birmingham – Critically Acclaimed Economic Strategy Game for 2–4 Players

Features

• INDUSTRIAL GAMEPLAY: Step into Birmingham during Englands Industrial Revolution. Build industries, expand networks, and respond to market shifts in this economic strategy game for experienced gamers.
• STRONG 24 PLAYER BALANCE: Rules are tuned to provide challenging, rewarding gameplay for 2 players while keeping depth and tension for 34 players.
• HIGHLY STRATEGIC & REPLAYABLE: Every choice affects future turns. Plan industries, manage networks, and adapt to markets, delivering deep strategy and lasting replay value for serious strategy board game fans.
• PREMIUM ROXLEY COMPONENTS: Detailed board, high-quality pieces, and elegant design bring the Industrial Revolution to life. Roxleys craftsmanship ensures a visually striking and tactically rich strategy board game experience.
• AWARD-WINNING DESIGN & PRESTIGE: Critically acclaimed and celebrated on BoardGameGeek with multiple Game of the Year awards, this economic strategy game offers a prestigious, heavyweight strategy experience.

Description

Brass: Birmingham is an economic strategy game sequel to Martin Wallace' 2007 masterpiece, Brass. Birmingham tells the story of competing entrepreneurs in Birmingham during the industrial revolution, between the years of 1770-1870. As in its predecessor, you must develop, build, and establish your industries and network, in an effort to exploit low or high market demands. 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.) 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. Birmingham features dynamic scoring canals/rails. 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. This provides players with the opportunity to score much higher value canals in the first era, and creates interesting strategy with industry placement. Iron, coal, and cotton are three industries which appear in both the original Brass as well as in Brass: Birmingham. New "Sell" system Brewing has become a fundamental part of the culture in Birmingham. You must now sell your product through traders located around the edges of the board. Each of these traders is looking for a specific type of good each game. To sell cotton, pottery, or manufactured goods to these traders, you must also "grease the wheels of industry" by consuming beer. For example, a level 1 cotton mill requires one beer to flip. As an incentive to sell early, the first player to sell to a trader receives free beer. Birmingham features three all-new industry types: Brewery - Produces precious beer barrels required to sell goods. Manufactured goods - Function like cotton, but features eight levels. 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. Pottery - These behemoths of Birmingham offer huge VPs, but at a huge cost and need to plan. Increased Coal and Iron Market size - The price of coal and iron can now go up to £8 per cube, and it's not uncommon. Brass: Birmingham is a finely brewed sequel to one of history's most industrial economic games. It offers a very different story arc and experience from its predecessor. Many of the tried and true strategies of the original are no longer as powerful as they once were, and other interesting new strategies are waiting for you to discover.

Brand Name: Roxley Games

Genre: Strategy

Number of Players: 4

Edition: [IN] New Edition (inferred as a sequel)

Customer Package Type: Standard Packaging

Language: English

Unit Count: 1.0 Count

Estimated Playing Time: 120 Minutes

Expansion For: Brass

Manufacturer Maximum Age (MONTHS): 1188.0

Manufacturer Minimum Age (MONTHS): 168.0

Included Components: Brass Birmingham

Model Number: ROX402

Manufacturer Part Number: ROX402

Set Name: Brass Birmingham

Manufacturer Warranty Description: No Warranty

Manufacturer: Roxley Games

Minimum Age Recomendation: 168

Global Trade Identification Number: 42

Item Type Name: Strategy Board Game

Age Range Description: 168 months to 1188 months

Are Batteries Required: No

Is Assembly Required: No

Indoor Outdoor Usage: Indoor

Educational Objective: Counting

Operation Mode: Manual

Item Dimensions L x W: 11.75"L x 11.75"W

Item Weight: 1650 Grams

Number of Items: 1

Size: Led-Anti-Stress-214

Item Dimensions: 11.75 x 1.92 x 11.75 inches

Theme: Fantasy

Color: Multi-colored

Subject Character: Variety

CPSIA Cautionary Statement: Choking Hazard - Small Parts, No Warning Applicable

Rulebook Availability: Included

Material Type: Cardboard