Brass: Birmingham

Normally take 2 actions per turn; each player takes only 1 in the first round of the Canal Era. Discard 1 card per action, or 3 in total to Scout. You may repeat actions; passing also requires a discard. Refill to 8 cards after your turn while the deck lasts. At round end, order the next round from least to most money spent, preserving relative order on ties, then collect income. Do not collect income in the final round of the game.

To Build, play a suitable Location or Industry card and pay the industry’s money, coal and iron costs. A Location card permits building in its named location; an Industry card normally permits its industry within your own network. Take your lowest unbuilt level of that industry and use a legal industry space. Your network includes locations containing your industries and the endpoints of your links.

To Network, discard any 1 card. In the Canal Era, build at most 1 canal for £3. In the Rail Era, build 1 railway for £5 and 1 coal, or 2 in one action for £15, 1 coal per railway and 1 beer in total. Extend your own network; if you have no industries or links on the board, you may start on any undeveloped line. Place railways individually and check coal access for each; beer for the double railway must come from a brewery.

Develop removes 1–2 of the lowest-level industry tiles from your player mat, using 1 iron per tile; potteries bearing the no-development icon cannot be removed this way. A Loan gives £30 and lowers income by 3 income levels, never below −10; the principal is never repaid. If you hold no Wild cards, Scout by discarding 3 cards in total to take 1 Wild Location and 1 Wild Industry card.

A single Sell action can sell several of your unflipped cotton mills, manufacturers or potteries. Each must connect to a matching merchant and consume its required beer, then flip and increase income by the indicated number of spaces. Coal mines, iron works and breweries instead flip and increase income when their last resource is consumed. These increases are income spaces, not income levels.

Coal must come from the closest connected unflipped coal mine, counting links belonging to any player. Only when no connected mine is available may you buy from the coal market through a merchant location. Iron needs no connection, but available iron works on the board must be used before the market. Your own brewery needs no connection; another player’s does. Merchant beer is only for selling to that merchant, never for railways.

An era ends after the round in which the deck is exhausted and every player has used all their cards. Score each link for the total link icons in its two endpoint locations, then remove it. Each player then scores the victory points printed at the bottom left of their flipped industries; unflipped industries score nothing.

After Canal Era scoring, remove all level 1 industries from the board and retain level 2 and higher. Restore merchant beer beside nonblank merchants, shuffle the players’ discards for this game and deal 8 cards each for the Rail Era. After Rail Era scoring, the highest total wins. Break ties by income level, then remaining cash; a further tie is shared.