Brass Birmingham

Brass Birmingham tells the story of competing entrepreneurs in Birmingham during the industrial revolution, between the years of 1770-1870. As in its predecessor, Brass Lancashire, 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.
6) Scout - Discard three cards and take a wild location and wild industry card.

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.
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This strategy, economic game contains the following:

• 1 board
• 4 player mats
• 4 character tiles
• 4 income markers
• 4 victory point markers
• 56 double-sided link tiles (14 per colour)
• 180 industry tiles
• 64 location and industry cards
• 8 wild cards
• 77 money tokens
• 30 black coal cubes
• 18 orange iron cubes
• 15 beer barrels
• 9 merchant tiles
• 1 rulebook