Review Details

Brass: Birmingham

Brass: Birmingham

Product Review (submitted on March 6, 2020):
This is a game that I can give a 10/10 to without any hesitations. Everything about it is elegant.

The artwork is beautiful and more important, highly functional. Either side of the game board is very readable, and as many reviews have pointed out, even the size / height of the components lend themselves to easy of readability. The box itself has a wonderful almost cloth feeling finish to it, and it's surprisingly dainty size almost seems to scoff at larger competing titles such as Power Grid.

The rules may seem daunting, but essentially the game can be boiled down to a simple phrase. Discard card, do thing. The build action has a bit of nuance to it, but considering 90% of the game revolves around what has been built and where, that's not too bad.

I'm a very big fan of the two phase scoring, as it gives everyone a nice stop point, where you can stand up, stretch, get snacks or whatever, before you dive back into the last half of it.

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