Brass: Birmingham
Would you like to take part in the Industrial Revolution and find out why Brass: Birmingham is considered to be an excellent sequel to one of the best economic board games of all time? Brass: Birmingham takes you back in time again, when a knack for strategic thinking fueled by gut instinct could sketch biographies of the likes of Friedrich Krupp or Richard Arkwright. Will you manage to follow in the footsteps of mighty industrialists from the era of iron and steam power?
Use your resources. Extract coal from the nearest mines to create new canal or rail links and industries. Supply iron from the surrounding ironworks to develop old industries and build new ones. Entice your clients with beer to more easily sell the fruits of your labor.
Develop the industry. Play appropriate cards and resources to build new coal mines and ironworks as well as cotton mills, breweries, potteries and manufactories. Discard cards to enhance your technological base and build even better and more profitable industries.
Be the best. Show you have a true flair for business during two distinct historical eras of Industrial Revolution, the canal era and the rail era, and achieve the ultimate victory by selling all your products and linking the greatest number of industries and merchant towns together.
Are you going the be the best? Test yourself and your skills in Brass: Birmingham!
Steam User 9
I have not gotten into trying the PVP mode but honestly I just wanted to have an AI to learn the game so I can better my game to play my own personal board game copy. I think for that this is a great platform. Brass Birmingham is not an easy game to master and so the sporadic games I get to play in person weren't enough to feel like I was mastering it. This just gave me the push to fully understand all aspects of the board game.
For that, its great
Steam User 3
I only bought this game to play locally, so I haven't run into any of the online issues that show up in many other reviews. It's a good implementation of the game, though it is very bare-bones. The game has been updated in a year and a half, so probably nothing else is going to be added. It's also frustrating that this game never goes on sale. I'm still thankful I bought the game, though I feel that little more effort on the development side could have made this implementation great.
Steam User 3
Very smooth implementation, but the AI actions are hard to follow - there should be a mode where you can slow the actions down so you can understand what actually happened.
Steam User 2
Great way to practice the strategies without having to find 3 other players to sit around the table.
Steam User 2
Good copy of the board game. Helped me with a few rule understandings.
Steam User 4
Great digital version of BB. The AI needs some help so that it stops building lvl 1 cotton and immediately selling it but otherwise good. I know there are complaints about the multiplayer but it has worked fine for me. Never lost a connection in multiplayer. It could be sped up a bit though.
Steam User 1
I've owned this game now for years. It is possibly my favorite board game as well (along with nucleum and any lacerda game). The review is simple. If you want to play solo with pretty good AI and get better at the game and learn the rules better, this game is 10/10. If you want to play the multiplayer, it simply does not work 1/10. its that simple.