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title: "Roxley Games Brass: Birmingham – Critically Acclaimed Economic Strategy Game for 2–4 Players"
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# Multi-award-winning design Dynamic canal & rail era scoring Highly strategic economic gameplay Roxley Games Brass: Birmingham – Critically Acclaimed Economic Strategy Game for 2–4 Players

**Brand:** roxley games
**Price:** KSh39701
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> 🚀 Build your empire, outsmart rivals, and dominate the Industrial Revolution!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** Roxley Games Brass: Birmingham – Critically Acclaimed Economic Strategy Game for 2–4 Players by roxley games
- **How much does it cost?** KSh39701 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## Key Features

- • **Balanced for 2-4 Players:** Optimized rules ensure intense, fair competition whether it’s a duo or full game night.
- • **Innovative Dual Era Gameplay:** Navigate two distinct eras—canal and rail—with evolving strategies and scoring.
- • **Dynamic Market & Selling System:** Leverage beer-powered sales and unique industry types for maximum VP impact.
- • **Deep Industrial Revolution Strategy:** Master the art of building industries, networks, and market timing from 1770-1870.
- • **Critically Acclaimed & Award-Winning:** Join the elite ranks playing the #1 Board Game of All-Time on BoardGameGeek.

## Overview

Brass: Birmingham is a critically acclaimed economic strategy board game for 2-4 players, set during England’s Industrial Revolution (1770-1870). Featuring award-winning design, dynamic dual-era gameplay (canal and rail), and a unique market system involving beer-powered sales, it challenges players to develop industries, expand networks, and strategically time their moves to score the most victory points. Perfectly balanced for all player counts, this game offers deep, thematic, and highly strategic experiences that have earned it top rankings and rave reviews.

## 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" systemBrewing 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.

Review: Great Board Game - This is a great game for two players. The aesthetic is fantastic and gameplay is the best out there. I truly love this borad game.
Review: Recommended - Very good game with a high quality

## Features

- AWARD-WINNING DESIGN: Critically acclaimed and Winner of multiple Game of the Year Awards, including the #1 Board Game of All-Time on BoardGameGeek
- FUN FOR ADULTS AND FAMILIES: An extremely fun, well-designed board game that is perfect for game nights with your family or friends
- THEMATIC GAMEPLAY: Players take on the role of competing entrepreneurs in Birmingham and its surrounding areas during England’s Industrial Revolution in 1770 - 1870.
- HIGHLY STRATEGIC: Players must develop, build, and establish industries and networks to best exploit low or high market demands. Effective planning is integral to each player’s overall success, as decisions can have long-term effects, impacting the actions that are available to them on later turns.
- BALANCED RULESET: The rules in Brass: Birmingham have been tweaked to improve the overall balance for all player counts, including the rules for two and three players.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | 1988884047 |
| Best Sellers Rank | #43,032 in Toys & Games ( See Top 100 in Toys & Games ) #1,012 in Board Games (Toys & Games) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars (1,588) |
| Department | All Ages |
| Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
| Item Weight | 3.64 pounds |
| Item model number | ROX402 |
| Language | English |
| Manufacturer | Roxley Games |
| Manufacturer recommended age | 14 years and up |
| Product Dimensions | 11.75 x 1.92 x 11.75 inches |
| Release date | September 19, 2018 |

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## Questions & Answers

**Q: Is this the deluxe edition or the retail edition?**
A: Retail

**Q: is this a base game, or an expansion?  Can you play this by itself?**
A: This is the base game and can be played by itself.
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/224517/brass-birmingham

**Q: How long does this game take to play (2 player)?**
A: First time through expect close to two hours or more but if both players know the rules maybe an hour to hour and a half.

**Q: Does this game have a solo mode?**
A: No, but there are unofficial variations that you can find that I have heard work quite well.

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great Board Game
*by J***Y on September 10, 2025*

This is a great game for two players. The aesthetic is fantastic and gameplay is the best out there. I truly love this borad game.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Recommended
*by A***4 on December 2, 2025*

Very good game with a high quality

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Remarkable, deep game (with the added bonus of excellent customer service)
*by E***L on July 21, 2020*

We are a family of board gamers, and this is easily the best in our collection. It seemed daunting at first, as there are a lot of what *look* like fiddly little rules. (E.g., if you need beer to complete a certain transaction, you need to have an appropriate rail or canal connection to it *if* it belongs to an opponent, but not if it belongs to you.) But once we played through, these rules not only started to make sense in a way that made them easy to remember, but also gave the game strategic depths that it is going to take *many* playthroughs to plumb. There is an exquisite balance between making decisions that will grow and enrich your own little industrial empire vs moves that will sabotage your opponents' efforts. And thanks to the random element provided by the card deck, no two games are alike. It's a bit like Catan, taken to 11 (though as good as Catan is, the comparison doesn't really to B:B justice). Finally, Roxley's customer service is *excellent*. We lost two of the game pieces in short order. (It doesn't help that we have two dogs who view things-that-fall-on-the-floor as treats, pretty much regardless of their nutritional value.) I wrote to Roxley asking if we could buy a "backup" set just of the game pieces – and they just went ahead and sent us one for free! These people clearly love games, and love people who love them.

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