Other features include a custom storage tray and black dyed chitboard for all tiles and tokens.Īrt & Graphic Design: Damien Mammoliti, Mr. In the Deluxe Edition of the Brass Lancashire, you will receive a set of 78 Iron Clays Game Counters to replace the chitboard money tokens. New high quality components including 4 player mats.Improved 2 & 3 player rules provide an experience more consistent with games of 4 players.As one of the top 20 highest rated board games on, Brass: Lancashire is widely regarded as one of the deepest, most replayable economic games ever designed. Cuddington, elegant graphic design, and high quality components. This original masterpiece was first published in 2008 and is widely regarded as one of the deepest, most replayable economic games ever designed.īrass: Lancashire features meticulously crafted illustrations by Damien Mammoliti and Mr. I’m so excited to have received them (especially since, if you follow me on Twitter you’ll have seen, I had so many issues actually getting the package delivered).Brass: Lancashire features a deceptively straightforward rule set which creates interesting gameplay dynamics including a highly innovative variable turn order system and robust gift economy. They came in the lovely box you see above, which I totally kept because it’s so purty.Īs I said before, these games are GORGEOUS. I wasn’t exactly sure how to utilize it best so I just decided to split it evenly and add 15 chips each to Lancashire and Birmingham. 30 chips that provide additional 1s, 5s, and 10s as well as addming the 100s denomination. This is what the fill-out Iron Clays set is composed of. The bits (and bags) for Birmingham are much like the ones for Lancashire, though Birmingham has the addition of barrels for one of the new types of buildings you can have. The player boards, however, like the main board for Birmingham are double-sided with the day art on one side and the night art on the other (you can see both in the picture above). And as for Brass: Birmingham Why, its a collaborative effort between original designer Martin Wallace and two new co-designers, and Roxley is calling it a. The rules and punchboard sheets are of similar quality to Lancashire. The spaces on each side are identical, however one side shows daytime coloring and the other side shows a night version of the locations (no rules change between the sides, it’s just a cosmetic difference). The Birmingham board is also double-sided, but with a different purpose. You can get more of each denomination, as well as 100s chips, from the Iron Clays fill-out set (see ADD-ONS below). Each game comes with 1s, 5s, 10s, and 20s. The cards here are identical quality to the Lancashire ones: look and feel great and the art (some of which is different) is still amazing.īirmingham has an identical set of Iron Clays so I just showed off 2 different denominations here. The pieces on the right are the player pieces while the cubes are for resources. Here are the miscellaneous bits as well as the extra bags they give you to organize things. The pieces I did punch all feel solid and good. I didn’t punch everything out for these pictures because I was so excited to show them off. One side is for the new edition of the rules for this reprint (which supports 2 to 4 players) while the back side has the board for the community 2-player variant of Lancashire that was created for the original printing of the game.Īll the punchboard bits. These things feel GREAT, are weighty without being overbearing, and are just so well-designed I might pick up a generic set to use for other games! The biggest bonus from the deluxe edition are these Iron Clay chips that replace the punchboard money from the regular edition. They have a nice finish to them and feel great to hold. They are thick boards that feel very sturdy. You can see on the back they have the game title and the fronts have spaces for all the buildings you use during the game. The rulebook here helps frame the lovely player boards. Brass: Birmingham is by all means the better of the two games, but it doesn’t handle two players as well as the alternative board in Brass Lancashire. For the purposes of keeping this article more focused on the differences between Brass Lancashire ( LAN) and Brass Birmingham ( BIR ), we'll be focusing less on the actual rules, and more on how certain rules changes affect gameplay. Here is everything that comes in Lancashire Deluxe. Welcome to another unboxing! Today I’m showing off the Deluxe editions of Brass: Lancashire and Brass: Birmingham from Roxley Games! NOTE: My crappy phone camera does not do the beauty of these games the justice they deserve.
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