First mistake at 9:30. You can't sell that coal because you have no connection to the market. You can always sell iron... but coal needs a connection to a merchant. Same mistake at 30:20. Still not connected. You should have built the connection first and the coal mine second...that would have been legal. ;-)
@@tinkytinkz I see you are correct. Not sure why I missed that upon my first watch of this one, it's pretty clear to me he has the connection this morning.
Thanks for also spotting this, to make such a big mistake with the very first move in the game has tainted this play through for me and it goes on to effect future builds and moves etc.. Its still a useful video to see how they interpret some of the mechanics though.
Big mistake at 35:40. You always must take the nearest coal connected...so she should have taken the coal off of his coal mine which would have flipped. Sorry for being so rule obsessed...but i really love this game. 😍
To remember to put down cards, declare what you're going to do and place the card on the table in front of you. Put the money for doing it on top of the card. Complete the action. Leave the card and money there and repeat with your second card, placing it beside the first. When all actions are completed, put all the money beside your player token on the turn track, discard both cards and draw up. Say you're finished so the next person knows your turn is definitely over.
There's a mistake immediately as at 9:45 the coal on Wolverhampton cannot get to the market as there's no connection through link tiles to any market. The coal cube even though there's an empty space in the coal market has to stay on Wolverhampton. It's a basic error.
It doesn't affect the win at the end, but sorry to nitpick. A mistake that I've run into when playing is that is easy to miss occurs @1:57:20 when you were selling your manufactured goods, the level III (and level VII) does not require a beer to sell, so you wouldn't have been able to flip your beer tile. Some require 2 beers to sell such as pottery III, pottery V, and manufactured good V.
I’m so glad that I discovered your channel. By far, you guys are uploading the best playthroughs. Just enough rules to start and the rest is explained along the way. Thank you so much!
you're constantly making the same important mistake, after building a new coal mine and not having connection to the market, you're selling the coal to the market , that's very confusing for beginners and it should be corrected via subtitles when those moments occurs.
I just got BB and plan to play for the first time tonight. I was watching this play through for some pointers and caught this mistake. I am surprised that nothing has been added to point out this error.
I think this is a very common rule to get wrong and one I have got wrong myself, people only tend to consider connections for supplying coal rather than selling to the market. It speaks to how intricate the rules to this game are that they got a rule wrong on the very first turn of the game.
Yaaaay the playthroughs are back! Antlab is back! Really loving you both :) This was a tough re intro :) Thank you so much for this (just played last night), and loved it. Anthony, Frances, (sp?) you are fantastic! Thanks for all you do!
This has easily jumped into my top 5 games!!! I have also taught this to many people and I have not had one person walk away from the game not liking it alot. It is a very deep strategy game, you have to be able to readjust is something doesnt go your way. Its such an amazing game!!
At 01:10:02 you mention NOT using pounds after a certain date? We've always used pounds over here. (We changed from old currency [pounds/shillings/pence] to decimal in the early 1970s but the pound remained the basic unit.) EDIT: Watched the summary and it appears you think this is based in the US. No! It's England. All those towns are English towns I'm quite familiar with (I was born just outside of Nuneaton).
It's kind of depressing if they seriously thought this was based in the US. It shows how little Americans know of our neck of the woods. Anyone Americans reading this: look into the history a little bit if you can, because it elevates the game when you realise how beautifully the theme works here.
I was totally aware that this was England by just the title of the game (and the title of Brass: Lancashire). I can't speak for Francis but I think she was referring to Great Britain converting to the euro not too far back. I'm sure that was a nightmare in itself. I'm glad you guys have kept your own currency across the pond. Please rest assured that not all Americans are complete idiots when it comes to geography and foreign culture. I definitely don't fall into that category! For the record, Brass: Birmingham and Glen More II...are two of my favorite games and definitely my absolute favorite "UK themed" games.
1:55:27 You can always over build any of your own things. You only need there to not be "any on the board" if you are overbuilding your opponents iron or coal.
@@rogierius You can always upgrade your own buildings. It doesn't matter which state they're in (flipped, unflipped, unflipped with resources) but you can always replace your own tiles with another higher value tile of the same industry. The only times you can overbuild your opponents tiles are when (a) it is a flipped coal mine or flipped iron works. (b) there are none of that respective resource (coal or iron) anywhere on the map OR the foreign market. If those cases are true, you can replace the target tile with your own tile of higher value of the same industry. In either case, removed tiles do not give any additional benefit. No points. No income (if unflipped before replaced).
@@jonathanpolitis9856 thanks, didn't know about overbuilding opponents industry. I overbuilt my unflipped level 4 pottery industry, as flipping it seemed inefficiënt as it only gives one point and one income.
@@rogierius It pretty much doesn't happen in Birmingham. But, Lancashire is BRUTAL! The foreign market only has 4 of iron and coal, so you're almost always under threat of being overbuilt.
After watching a good bit of the video, I wanted to compliment you guys on the new lighting of the studio, and the overall color of the video when the camera is on you two. It's nicely warm and inviting. Great job!
Its so interesting looking at this game when you live in the actual black country, its so funny seeing the number 1 an 2 canal lines on the board from Dudley, an seeing the Colliery which I live near, an round oak steelworks on the the board, its just a shame Daulton's clay pit isn't on Dudley as we produced some of the best clay in the world
Fellow Black Country brother ✌️ I find it strange that the Black Country on the game board is North of where it actually is. It doesn't really matter but like Dudley/Tipton/Walsall area is pretty much the heart of the Black Country.
@@sameerdodger yeah I thought it was strange having the board called the black country when it should be the midlands, but I guess it sounds nice lmao, guess the designers doe know of the north south devide between us an brum 🤣
This is the video that persuaded me to buy this game, great play through guys. So sorry you are stepping away from providing this kind of content. You will be missed 😞
Thanks for the quick little overview at 4:46 before jumping straight into this game! I love the great quality of the camera and angles, really helped learn along as I'm trying to learn this game while it's on its way!
1:21:59 you burnt one iron for the manufactured goods, then should've burnt 2 for the develop. so you forgot what you just did 2 seconds ago (lol) and burnt just one iron for the develop, so you didn't flip that iron mine when you should've and could've, making you miss some income. little things matter in this game, so pay attention folks :D
The playthrough is full of illegal moves, unfortunately. It's not an easy game, but if people use this video to learn the game, they will play it wrong
Coming to the party late. But you two are very enjoyable to watch playing games together. Thank you. Reading comments I see the mistakes but hey all good. I still learned a lot from watching. Looking forward to playing this with my friends.
The "pottery barns" are Bottle Kilns. Stoke on Trent is still today called "The Potteries" and Stoke City Football Club are nicknamed "The Potters". I live in Leek which is on the board!! These are all real UK towns and cities.
This video, like their others are very well done. Professional. As they play they made some rule mistakes. Since I am watching, in part, to see if I know the rules correctly, it would be nice if when they edit the video they would add text to the scenes that have rule mistakes.
Great video! However I'm from Birmingham and so many things I want to interject with or where they say a place name wrong 😂 The loaded boats were actually pulled down the canals by horses on ropes walking on the canal banks. Also Brum has more miles of canal than Venice. Everyone from Brum will tell you proudly! Lol
A point on links . At 29.57. You wouldnt have to build in caldbrookdale to then build the link to Shrewsbury. Caldbrookdale is in your network so the link to Shrewsbury is a valid move without that industry tile.
Oh this is great! I‘m just in the process of deciding whether to pre-order Brass Birmingham or not and your playthroughs have been a great help in making a decision for (or against) other games in the past. I‘m really looking forward to watching this video and will start right away. :-)
A friend brought the kickstarter edition to a game night a few months ago and it was so much fun to play, I ordered both Lancashire and Birmingham immediately. Birmingham is the more thinky of the two but they are both tremendous.
At 25 mins, when Francis is struggling for something to do with the cards in her hand, I'm screaming at the TV, "Develop! Develop"! Or at least take a Scout action if your hand is that bad.
I am very happy to see the return of the playthroughs. And you did a game that I have already played - a first, I think :-) I was fortunate to play this when the kickstarters were first delivered and it completely consumed me, so much that I immediately bought both deluxe editions for my collection. The game is tremendous and has completely changed the way I look at Euro games. Roxley did an amazing job with the artwork and components. If you enjoyed this one, you should take a look at Founders of Gloomhaven. It has nothing to do with the big doomy cooperative game other than to give it a thematic reason to exist. The mechanics are similar - using routes to build an economy though in FoG it is expressed as a technology tree. As with Brass, there is a reason to share because you can't do it all by yourself, but the rewards for making your resources a bit more difficult to obtain is higher. Very thinky and tremendous fun. These are my favorite three games of 2018 so far.
I think a crucial point is being missed here in regards to building 2 rails at once. Yes, its more expensive but you save an action which is far more valuable than saving $10 and a beer.
It probably gets its name Brass from the Yorkshire phrase "where there's muck there's brass". Meaning "where there is dirt, there is money". Brass still means money in Yorkshire and the North of England. Even where I come from if you are "Brassic" it means you are skint, in that you've no money.
Great video, so glad you are back and perfect timing for me, I just got home from having my gallbladder removed and I had something fun to watch since I’m not quite up to sitting through a game yet. You are both awesome and love your new logo, just need some swag now with the new logo. The studio looks awesome!! Hope to see you at PaxU, Debbie.
Someone lent us this game, and we were mystified by it, even after reading the instructions. Your video has given us the courage to at least try and get to grips with it, so thank you.
Welcome back you guys! :) I see you have 1 of my 2 most favorites on the shelf back there...Root! Haven't played Brass Birmingham yet, but sitting on the shelf, but a couple of Brass Lancashire rounds between my wife and I. It's fun! :)
Thanks to your playthrough, I was able to immediately play Brass and even won my first game by a four point difference, so thank you! Where did you buy thise great poker chips? I can only seem to find higher valued and/or ugly ones.
30:00 You don't have to build an industry in a city to then build a link on the other side of it... I.e. If you build in Kidderminster, you can link to worchester and then link to gloucester without needing to build in worchester.
The first thing she does in the game is wrong. To sell coal to the market you must first have a connection to a coal merchant. What she did can only be done for iron, as far as I know.
really enjoyed watching this playthrough - ordered the game for xmas as daughter loves Anno1800 (another Wallace design) and at whilst demoing it at UKGE people said it seemed similar (BTW - it's not except the tech board looks like this player board maybe?). But OMG - virtually every town name was said wrong! and riverboats / steam boats on a birmingham canal?!? You guys have no idea of British history!!! Enjoyed seeing this - and really helpful to see in action, but you made me laugh! ah... just got to the end. This is birmingham England, not Alabama! So no southern accents! Allright bab?
Hi, Late to the game, so to say...what mechanic(s) make Brass Birmingham NOT playable solo? I enjoy playing games solo but I have to go through a familiarization process in order to determine a game's solo-ability. For instance, a game in which players keep their cards secret until played would be a game I'd avoid. Hidden movement creates a big problem for solo play too. BTW, I don't like bots so any game which requires a bot to play solo is off the table. As a example of a multiplayer game which I play solo is Lorenzo il Magnifico, I play each of the four families to the best of my ability...an excellent solo game. Thanks, I enjoy your videos.
Great stuff! Tried bringing this game out last weekend but it was deemed "too heavy" for the people involved...going to link this video to give it another go in the future!
Great play through chaps. I have recently bought this. Played a couple of times and starting to see the depth of strategy. Like you, I would highly recommend it. As an aside how about a 2 player run through of the Gallerist? I have watched your (Ant) solo and it looks excellent.
On the very first move, she built a coal mine and sold the coal to an unconnected coal market..... You can not buy/sell coal from market if it's not connected, am I doing this wrong?
Having played Birmingham, I actually think it is more accessible than perhaps what you guys are saying. Yes, it’s a bit of a beast to fully grasp in the first playthrough but once the penny drops, its flows very smoothly without overly complicated rules. Its strategies are deeply embedded and discovering them is truly a delicious gaming experience.
I'm still learning how to play this game. It seems ok. It's very tactical game and not much luck involved. It's almost like an advanced chess game. It can be a good or a bad thing. It's quite dry game also, not much humor or crazy cool things going on, just a very accurate simulation of an industrial age in UK. I actually prefer Terraformin Mars over this, which is my all time favorite game :)
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First mistake at 9:30. You can't sell that coal because you have no connection to the market. You can always sell iron... but coal needs a connection to a merchant. Same mistake at 30:20. Still not connected. You should have built the connection first and the coal mine second...that would have been legal. ;-)
They also buy coal from market at 14 min in with no connection.
@@foodforthemoon7 He explains it exactly at @14:00. Gloucester.
@@tinkytinkz I see you are correct. Not sure why I missed that upon my first watch of this one, it's pretty clear to me he has the connection this morning.
Also error at 29:56. She thinks she need to build something, so then she could continue link. But it is a part of network already
Thanks for also spotting this, to make such a big mistake with the very first move in the game has tainted this play through for me and it goes on to effect future builds and moves etc.. Its still a useful video to see how they interpret some of the mechanics though.
Big mistake at 35:40. You always must take the nearest coal connected...so she should have taken the coal off of his coal mine which would have flipped. Sorry for being so rule obsessed...but i really love this game. 😍
In all honesty, there are quite a few mistakes/illegals made in this playthrough
To remember to put down cards, declare what you're going to do and place the card on the table in front of you. Put the money for doing it on top of the card. Complete the action. Leave the card and money there and repeat with your second card, placing it beside the first. When all actions are completed, put all the money beside your player token on the turn track, discard both cards and draw up. Say you're finished so the next person knows your turn is definitely over.
I've never played this game before, and I will already use your suggestion.
@@EfrainRiveraJuniorit's the only way to do it and to undo things completely
There's a mistake immediately as at 9:45 the coal on Wolverhampton cannot get to the market as there's no connection through link tiles to any market. The coal cube even though there's an empty space in the coal market has to stay on Wolverhampton. It's a basic error.
I'm buying this just to speak in a Birmingham accent to drive my wife nuts
It doesn't affect the win at the end, but sorry to nitpick. A mistake that I've run into when playing is that is easy to miss occurs @1:57:20 when you were selling your manufactured goods, the level III (and level VII) does not require a beer to sell, so you wouldn't have been able to flip your beer tile. Some require 2 beers to sell such as pottery III, pottery V, and manufactured good V.
I’m so glad that I discovered your channel. By far, you guys are uploading the best playthroughs. Just enough rules to start and the rest is explained along the way. Thank you so much!
you're constantly making the same important mistake, after building a new coal mine and not having connection to the market, you're selling the coal to the market , that's very confusing for beginners and it should be corrected via subtitles when those moments occurs.
Still no subtitles to WARN of the mistake. Come one guys :)
I am watching it right now and i was amazed. And no info, that they are wrong about it
I just got BB and plan to play for the first time tonight. I was watching this play through for some pointers and caught this mistake. I am surprised that nothing has been added to point out this error.
I think this is a very common rule to get wrong and one I have got wrong myself, people only tend to consider connections for supplying coal rather than selling to the market. It speaks to how intricate the rules to this game are that they got a rule wrong on the very first turn of the game.
We’ve been looking to see if this game works well with just 2 players, so thanks for such a thorough playthrough.
Yaaaay the playthroughs are back! Antlab is back! Really loving you both :) This was a tough re intro :) Thank you so much for this (just played last night), and loved it. Anthony, Frances, (sp?) you are fantastic! Thanks for all you do!
This has easily jumped into my top 5 games!!! I have also taught this to many people and I have not had one person walk away from the game not liking it alot. It is a very deep strategy game, you have to be able to readjust is something doesnt go your way. Its such an amazing game!!
This makes me want to try it, but I'm afraid it might be too complicated for me.
What an amazing game to return with! Welcome back!
Love the style, presentation and the chemistry you guys have, great review
Welcome back and really looking forward to watching this video. Love the new backdrop and looking forward to more game plays and reviews.
At 01:10:02 you mention NOT using pounds after a certain date? We've always used pounds over here. (We changed from old currency [pounds/shillings/pence] to decimal in the early 1970s but the pound remained the basic unit.)
EDIT: Watched the summary and it appears you think this is based in the US. No! It's England. All those towns are English towns I'm quite familiar with (I was born just outside of Nuneaton).
It's kind of depressing if they seriously thought this was based in the US. It shows how little Americans know of our neck of the woods. Anyone Americans reading this: look into the history a little bit if you can, because it elevates the game when you realise how beautifully the theme works here.
I'm an American and I was cringing lol
I was totally aware that this was England by just the title of the game (and the title of Brass: Lancashire).
I can't speak for Francis but I think she was referring to Great Britain converting to the euro not too far back. I'm sure that was a nightmare in itself. I'm glad you guys have kept your own currency across the pond. Please rest assured that not all Americans are complete idiots when it comes to geography and foreign culture. I definitely don't fall into that category!
For the record, Brass: Birmingham and Glen More II...are two of my favorite games and definitely my absolute favorite "UK themed" games.
@@TheKiltedKraut GB (actually UK but whatever) uses the £.
@@TheKiltedKraut wait what, you thought the UK uses euros?
Mistake at 36:00. Frances had to take the coal from the nearest source and in that case it would be that of Ant
I came to the comments just to see if I was right thinking that was the case. Thank you for pointing this out to confirm my belief.
1:55:27 You can always over build any of your own things. You only need there to not be "any on the board" if you are overbuilding your opponents iron or coal.
Care to explain it like I'm five? Just played the game yesterday and that rule wasn't very clear to us.
@@rogierius You can always upgrade your own buildings. It doesn't matter which state they're in (flipped, unflipped, unflipped with resources) but you can always replace your own tiles with another higher value tile of the same industry.
The only times you can overbuild your opponents tiles are when (a) it is a flipped coal mine or flipped iron works. (b) there are none of that respective resource (coal or iron) anywhere on the map OR the foreign market. If those cases are true, you can replace the target tile with your own tile of higher value of the same industry.
In either case, removed tiles do not give any additional benefit. No points. No income (if unflipped before replaced).
@@jonathanpolitis9856 thanks, didn't know about overbuilding opponents industry.
I overbuilt my unflipped level 4 pottery industry, as flipping it seemed inefficiënt as it only gives one point and one income.
@@rogierius It pretty much doesn't happen in Birmingham. But, Lancashire is BRUTAL! The foreign market only has 4 of iron and coal, so you're almost always under threat of being overbuilt.
After watching a good bit of the video, I wanted to compliment you guys on the new lighting of the studio, and the overall color of the video when the camera is on you two. It's nicely warm and inviting. Great job!
This was one of your best playthroughs. I really, really enjoyed this video. Thanks guys!
Great to see you folks again! Nice playthrough. I think you’ve convinced me to add this game to my collection.
Its so interesting looking at this game when you live in the actual black country, its so funny seeing the number 1 an 2 canal lines on the board from Dudley, an seeing the Colliery which I live near, an round oak steelworks on the the board, its just a shame Daulton's clay pit isn't on Dudley as we produced some of the best clay in the world
Very cool!
Fellow Black Country brother ✌️ I find it strange that the Black Country on the game board is North of where it actually is. It doesn't really matter but like Dudley/Tipton/Walsall area is pretty much the heart of the Black Country.
@@sameerdodger yeah I thought it was strange having the board called the black country when it should be the midlands, but I guess it sounds nice lmao, guess the designers doe know of the north south devide between us an brum 🤣
So excited you’re back! Can’t wait for new playthroughs!
This is the video that persuaded me to buy this game, great play through guys. So sorry you are stepping away from providing this kind of content. You will be missed 😞
Thanks for the quick little overview at 4:46 before jumping straight into this game! I love the great quality of the camera and angles, really helped learn along as I'm trying to learn this game while it's on its way!
1:21:59 you burnt one iron for the manufactured goods, then should've burnt 2 for the develop. so you forgot what you just did 2 seconds ago (lol) and burnt just one iron for the develop, so you didn't flip that iron mine when you should've and could've, making you miss some income. little things matter in this game, so pay attention folks :D
The playthrough is full of illegal moves, unfortunately. It's not an easy game, but if people use this video to learn the game, they will play it wrong
Wow! Great production. Great to see you back at it.
Coming to the party late. But you two are very enjoyable to watch playing games together. Thank you. Reading comments I see the mistakes but hey all good. I still learned a lot from watching. Looking forward to playing this with my friends.
The "pottery barns" are Bottle Kilns. Stoke on Trent is still today called "The Potteries" and Stoke City Football Club are nicknamed "The Potters". I live in Leek which is on the board!! These are all real UK towns and cities.
I live in Stone!
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The first step is wrong. You can't sell coal to the market unless your coal mine is connected to the area with the double arrow.
don't you need to connect coal to to the foreign market using canals or rail before selling coal?
This video, like their others are very well done. Professional. As they play they made some rule mistakes. Since I am watching, in part, to see if I know the rules correctly, it would be nice if when they edit the video they would add text to the scenes that have rule mistakes.
Great video! However I'm from Birmingham and so many things I want to interject with or where they say a place name wrong 😂
The loaded boats were actually pulled down the canals by horses on ropes walking on the canal banks.
Also Brum has more miles of canal than Venice. Everyone from Brum will tell you proudly! Lol
does anyone know which brand that token container is that they have the ressource tokens in?
Nice! Thanks. This game can be played solo. There are several solo variants available at BGG.
Many dont like brass with two players. I know you love the game but do you have a comment about player count? Nice to see you again!!
Great to see you guys back! Really love the new setting! :)
A point on links . At 29.57. You wouldnt have to build in caldbrookdale to then build the link to Shrewsbury. Caldbrookdale is in your network so the link to Shrewsbury is a valid move without that industry tile.
Glad to see you guys doing what you love and we love watching these videos.
Oh this is great! I‘m just in the process of deciding whether to pre-order Brass Birmingham or not and your playthroughs have been a great help in making a decision for (or against) other games in the past. I‘m really looking forward to watching this video and will start right away. :-)
A friend brought the kickstarter edition to a game night a few months ago and it was so much fun to play, I ordered both Lancashire and Birmingham immediately. Birmingham is the more thinky of the two but they are both tremendous.
At 25 mins, when Francis is struggling for something to do with the cards in her hand, I'm screaming at the TV, "Develop! Develop"!
Or at least take a Scout action if your hand is that bad.
Has this game hit the table as much as you guys anticipated since this review? Can you give a rough estimate of how many games you’ve played?
In 1:58:27 you didn't count the 2 VP from the white tile...?
I am very happy to see the return of the playthroughs. And you did a game that I have already played - a first, I think :-) I was fortunate to play this when the kickstarters were first delivered and it completely consumed me, so much that I immediately bought both deluxe editions for my collection. The game is tremendous and has completely changed the way I look at Euro games. Roxley did an amazing job with the artwork and components.
If you enjoyed this one, you should take a look at Founders of Gloomhaven. It has nothing to do with the big doomy cooperative game other than to give it a thematic reason to exist. The mechanics are similar - using routes to build an economy though in FoG it is expressed as a technology tree. As with Brass, there is a reason to share because you can't do it all by yourself, but the rewards for making your resources a bit more difficult to obtain is higher. Very thinky and tremendous fun. These are my favorite three games of 2018 so far.
I think a crucial point is being missed here in regards to building 2 rails at once. Yes, its more expensive but you save an action which is far more valuable than saving $10 and a beer.
Can’t wait to play this. Nusfjord playthrough coming soon?
Lovely play thought , very good at showing all aspects of the game and teaching the gameplay as you progress :)
It probably gets its name Brass from the Yorkshire phrase "where there's muck there's brass". Meaning "where there is dirt, there is money". Brass still means money in Yorkshire and the North of England. Even where I come from if you are "Brassic" it means you are skint, in that you've no money.
If this had a more randomised board for the buildings, for me, that would be a big tick.
There's randomization in which merchants are on the outside cities of the board.
At 09:29 I thought you have to be connected to the market to sell coal when built?
Correct. They made a mistake there.
Great video, so glad you are back and perfect timing for me, I just got home from having my gallbladder removed and I had something fun to watch since I’m not quite up to sitting through a game yet. You are both awesome and love your new logo, just need some swag now with the new logo. The studio looks awesome!! Hope to see you at PaxU, Debbie.
Someone lent us this game, and we were mystified by it, even after reading the instructions. Your video has given us the courage to at least try and get to grips with it, so thank you.
Good video, I am loving the attempts at pronouncing the British town names.
Glad to see you guys back again. Great video as always. Have you tried Mombasa? I suspect you would enjoy that one.
Woah you got steamrolled there big guy! xDD
Yeah it happens a lot!
Nice playthrough! Can you guys play the gallerist 2 player? Lacerda games always a plus :D
Welcome back you guys! :)
I see you have 1 of my 2 most favorites on the shelf back there...Root!
Haven't played Brass Birmingham yet, but sitting on the shelf, but a couple of Brass Lancashire rounds between my wife and I. It's fun! :)
Thanks to your playthrough, I was able to immediately play Brass and even won my first game by a four point difference, so thank you!
Where did you buy thise great poker chips? I can only seem to find higher valued and/or ugly ones.
Thank you! We bought them at GenCon ages ago actually :-)
Like the new set up!
great to see you back with playthroughs!
Just got the game. Great video, thank you.
Please were did you get the poker chips?
Thank you
They were an add on when we bought the game.
BTW - the game takes place in England. Not Alabama.
After this, I bought the game!!!
Without a doubt, Ant Lab Games is one of my fav YT channels, love you, guys!!
Keep up the great work!!!
30:00 You don't have to build an industry in a city to then build a link on the other side of it... I.e. If you build in Kidderminster, you can link to worchester and then link to gloucester without needing to build in worchester.
Worcester ... pronounced "wusta"
Was a blast to watch you guys 🎉
Thanks for sharing this version of the game. It was great. BTW, what is the bit box container you use?
Right off the bat, I love the colors. The contrasting is nice
Perfect timing. I'm playing this for the first time tonight.
Am i the only one with the happy feeling of seeing them handle the poker chips :)
I want those! They look perfect for any game. Can't seem to find the ones they use.
The first thing she does in the game is wrong. To sell coal to the market you must first have a connection to a coal merchant. What she did can only be done for iron, as far as I know.
I'm feeling that Ant is trying to signal to Frances that the game isn't set in America but wooooosh. ;)
At 2:14, yeah, IMHO, this is not a Euro game. It's a classic strategy game.
Glad to see you guys are back. :)
Already made a rule mishap on the very first turn
Are you able to build a Level 1 Pottery in the Rail Era?
really enjoyed watching this playthrough - ordered the game for xmas as daughter loves Anno1800 (another Wallace design) and at whilst demoing it at UKGE people said it seemed similar (BTW - it's not except the tech board looks like this player board maybe?). But OMG - virtually every town name was said wrong! and riverboats / steam boats on a birmingham canal?!? You guys have no idea of British history!!! Enjoyed seeing this - and really helpful to see in action, but you made me laugh! ah... just got to the end. This is birmingham England, not Alabama! So no southern accents! Allright bab?
Glad you enjoyed!
Hi,
Late to the game, so to say...what mechanic(s) make Brass Birmingham NOT playable solo?
I enjoy playing games solo but I have to go through a familiarization process in order to determine a game's solo-ability. For instance, a game in which players keep their cards secret until played would be a game I'd avoid. Hidden movement creates a big problem for solo play too.
BTW, I don't like bots so any game which requires a bot to play solo is off the table.
As a example of a multiplayer game which I play solo is Lorenzo il Magnifico, I play each of the four families to the best of my ability...an excellent solo game.
Thanks, I enjoy your videos.
brass burning ham, the ultimate ham management game
Lol
Great stuff! Tried bringing this game out last weekend but it was deemed "too heavy" for the people involved...going to link this video to give it another go in the future!
Love the new game room!!
Can't sell back to coal market unless you have connected to it when you built coal industry.
Welcome back! Its been too long. Love the new setup.
Great play through chaps. I have recently bought this. Played a couple of times and starting to see the depth of strategy. Like you, I would highly recommend it. As an aside how about a 2 player run through of the Gallerist? I have watched your (Ant) solo and it looks excellent.
On the very first move, she built a coal mine and sold the coal to an unconnected coal market..... You can not buy/sell coal from market if it's not connected, am I doing this wrong?
Having played Birmingham, I actually think it is more accessible than perhaps what you guys are saying. Yes, it’s a bit of a beast to fully grasp in the first playthrough but once the penny drops, its flows very smoothly without overly complicated rules. Its strategies are deeply embedded and discovering them is truly a delicious gaming experience.
This video has helped me tremendously. Thank you.
What do you think is more fun to play, brass birmingham or gaia project ?
Similiar experience; big, wonderful surprise.
I'm still learning how to play this game. It seems ok. It's very tactical game and not much luck involved. It's almost like an advanced chess game. It can be a good or a bad thing. It's quite dry game also, not much humor or crazy cool things going on, just a very accurate simulation of an industrial age in UK. I actually prefer Terraformin Mars over this, which is my all time favorite game :)
Welcome back Frances and Anthony.
Do you get income in the last turn of the era? 51:10 or it is another mistake?
Yeah you do, last turn of the game however, you don't.
I'd really love to know where you got the coins?
These were an add on box we bought with the game. They are called Iron Clays.
@@AntLabGames thank you for the prompt reply, they are beautiful. I love your channel, please keep it up.
LMAO! You Took My Beer! That's Cheap! You Suck! ---- So much fun watching you guys banter! 🙂
Welcome back Ant & Frances! 😃
I want to do something...but I can't...but maybe I can do...this!... - and that's Brass Birmingham.
Lol true!
Hourra! Glad to see you back :)
Don't you get to use only one action in the canal era ??
Only in the first round.
Solo Automa is available.
Another great video! Thx guys!
Great review! Thanks