We intended to teach the third person in our group during our next online games night, so investing half an hour going over rules together seemed a very worthwhile effort.īrass: Birmingham, like its sibling Brass: Lancashire, which in turn is a reprint of the original Brass, is rules-heavy. However, one week it was just the two of us and we decided we were happy to learn the rules together and just go for it. We had spoken about playing Brass: Birmingham for a couple of weeks, but none of us had had the time to learn the rules, ready to teach the others. I felt that over the years we had tackled more and more complex games and that now we were finally ready to go up to the next level of complexity.Ĭonvincing the others actually turned out not to be too difficult, because after having moved our weekly meetings to an online world, we had discovered more games on the various platforms and were happy to try out new things, provided one of us would learn the rules. It took me a long time to pluck up the courage and suggest to my weekly games group that we should try Brass: Birmingham.
When a game is celebrated as being complex, your first instinct is to be intimidated. With that out of the way, let's move to the actual review. That's why this article comes under the heading of "Digital Eyes", which are reviews of games I only played online. This review is based on digital plays of the game only. Yet, overall you had done well and were certainly top Brass: Birmingham by Roxley Games. But then, nobody could have predicted the Industrial Revolution to be so transformative as it had been. Maybe if you had been more careful and had planned further ahead when you first started out as an entrepreneur, things would have worked out differently. Investing in the rail network would have been much more lucrative and sensible, but you had wanted to compete with your contemporaries.
BRASS BIRMINGHAM REVIEW FULL
So you can imagine that dumping out a bag full of these tokens will take you a bit to find and sort them out to put them in the correct place.Looking back, building that last pottery had been foolhardy.
There are 29 different spots for these tokes and 4 or so of each specific token goes per spot, in a specific numbered order. Each player gets a board and on these boards you have to place all the industry tokens that you will use throughout the game. The MEAT of the time it takes to set up are the individual player boards. The card setup is rather fast as you just lay down the wild cards in their respective parts, shuffle the main deck and deal cards to each player and place the rest face down in its spot. The setup takes quite a while for this one. The cardboard stock they use for the player board tokens are thick and feel very sturdy.
The cards all feel nice and the tokens are of a good quality with some wooden squares for the iron and coal tokens and some wooden beer barrels that are shaped like little barrels.
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