Brass Birmingham in about 3 minutes 

Very group dependent game. I know some groups who make it like pulling teeth. Others where its lot of fun

Fair enough. It bugged the heck out of me, especially getting change. There are no 3's which made the canal era somewhat annoying.

Hahahaha. I love this so hard

Clearly got confused with the other brass's backstory. I know nothing about UK geography

Only part of the board is the Black Country. Birmingham itself is very definitely not part of the Black Country. This was mentioned to the publisher before publication, but not taken on board. I live in Birmingham, but often go to a board game club a few km away in the Black Country.

@@janoshunyadi2 Brass Lanchasire even has yorkshire in it.....

@@christopherhealey8807 Yes, I know - I've played it. Obviously, for that reason, it's without question the greatest game in the world. But I still have a soft spot for Brass Birmingham.

Brass Yorkshire is so the next step

That's a really good point. Every year, i redo the intro bit. That could be something i add to the segment where i quickly run through player count, time, and complexity

Put that down to 1.) the original brass being about the north and b.) me not knowing where anything is in England.

3 Minute Board Games Fair play! Aside from that, great job on the content condensing the complexity of the game down to 3mins 👍🏼

Soo north England?

@@howie3750 No its in the Midlands (in the middle of England basically) Brass Lancashire is set in the north of England. Either way both were locations of the industrial revolution. Love these 3 minutes rules that work well as a recap to the rules👍

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Thank you kindly.

Pretty comparable. Brass is probably simpler overall, but the interactions are on the same level. think of it like Gaia Project, but without the variable race powers.

Tried GWT, its pretty good. Not a fan of the theme as the American West just doesn't connect with me. But the game was good. I had much cows. Much cows

I cannot find this Discord channel.

Just a bit awkward to pick up and handle, poker chips are easier to stack and count out.

As an avid solo gamer I can say that's a good thing, any solo mode of Brass would be a pale shadow of the way the game fosters player interaction.

@@3MBG It's no good for me as I play solo 90% of the time.

Fascinating. I thought it was a super dry train game so skipped Brass for years

Hmmm, im not sure i'd like either of those games at 2 player. But i think Brass needs the player interaction more and really hums at 4. TM is probably better, but 2 player games can get into a pattern where one player is clearly ahead and running up the score

How many did you play it with?

@@3MBG 4 - both times.

Interesting, we find it a super interactive game at 4. Even my guys who dont dig heavy euros loved it. Well, that's games for you :)

Sorry, i don't allow links to creators who have been abusive to me on the channel.

Ha, cool. I ended up removing the specific times because people complained. Some even flat out accused me of not even playing the game. My group plays fast, and apparently, some people play up to 4 times slower than we do. And when they see things like "Brass takes 90-120 minutes" they lose their minds at me.

@@3MBG Haha! I know I need to "calibrate" reviewers tastes so I can evaluate their reviews, the same applies for rate of play I guess.

Very short is 5 mins or so. Short, 30 odd, medium around the hour mark, long, in that 90-180 mins mark, Bonkers long, anything that routinely takes 4+ hours. Hope that helps

@@3MBG, I’m with you. I play games pretty fast, as do my sons, but there are those in my gaming group that are very slow and prone to AP. If I’m playing a game with people like me, we move along quite fast. We played this game in my gaming group, all as noobies. It took us 3 hours for 3 players. With increased play, but with the same group, I could see us trim it down to about 2-2.5 but not lower than that. Needs thinking to play well.

They're functional, i just vastly prefer the feel of poker chips when playing games like this. The size and weight of them

It's how Aussies and Kiwis (in these examples) speak mate...

I've never understood why people attempt to make fun of other peoples accents. Seems like a mean spirited thing to do. I talk in the manner of my people, as do you.

@@3MBG Wow. Extra sensitive today? If you think I was actually making fun of you... no wonder the world is screwed up. (I don't make fun of people.. that's mean. What I wrote is NOT making fun of you! I'm from Boston and speak exactly the same way, and take it in humor when people poke at my accent). As such I was only trying to enjoy some humor with you. I mean, it's just an accent, right? We have no control over that. I really enjoy your videos. But wow... I miss the days when people were able to poke fun at each other without being labeled as "mean". But TODAY, I guess it's "mean". I don't get it. I sort of feel sorry for you, that you go through life thinking that people are actually attacking you based on accent or whatever. I come from a generation where we all realize that we're all born differently, and instead of attacking each other for it, we use our ethnic and regional differences as a source of humor and comradery. I guess the smiley face I put at the end of my original comment didn't get the job done. Sorry 'bout that.

@@bgm-1961 Hmmm, perhaps this is a cultural difference between Aotearoa and America? We are used to hearing different accents and having our accent as a rare one in the world. This is far from the first time an American poster has said this sort of thing to me and weirdly, it is always people from the US. Never anywhere else. I'm not sure why that is. I'm not upset, nor being sensitive. I just don't understand it at all. And yours is not one of the really rude ones, which is why your comment was replied to and not blocked. But i get plenty of "speak properly" comments as well.

@@3MBG Fair enough. But first and foremost, I certainly didn't mean any offense by my original comment... absolutely none whatsoever. I haven't been to New Zealand, but I've visited Australia several times, both on business and for pleasure. I remember the first time an Aussie commented on my accent. I thought it was cool, because as far as I was concerned, it was them that had the accent! :) Then that's when it hit me that it was me who sounded different to everyone around me, as I was the visitor. (But then sometimes I'd confuse them when I let my Boston accent slip in). :) Anyway, about it being a US thing... perhaps you're right. As I wrote earlier, when I was growing up, I lived in an area with people of several different ethnic backgrounds and a few different accents. We used to make fun of each other all the time, both as kids and as adults - not to be mean - but actually to show that we respected each other enough to poke fun at our differences. To us, it was good natured jesting. I guess it also a measure of toughness. I mean, if you could take being ribbed over your looks or accent, or whatever, then you showed that you were willing to fit in... to be part of a larger group than just yourself. Getting back to it being a US thing... again, perhaps you're right. But then, if so, it's also disappearing from our culture. As I'm sure you're well aware, the US is going through a cultural upheaval now. It isn't new... it's been brewing for the past five to ten years, and is only now coming to a head. Anyway, it's a multi-faceted cultural shift we're going through. And part of that is a certain - and growing - part of our population that we referred to as "snowflakes". They're the ones - who if they were around back in the days when we would jest at each other over our differences - would now instead feel offended and feel "unsafe". Notice how I used "referred" in the last sentence in the past tense. Because again - due to our cultural shift - it's no longer "a thing" to refer to that small population as "snowflakes". And that's because our entire culture (in my opinion) has shifted so much in that direction that it's no longer a fringe part of our society that becomes easily offended at what used to be very innocent banter. Being offended at such talk is now pretty mainstream. Which leaves the old guys like me (older than 50) in the minority concerning our views of what constitutes "making fun" of someone. So it's definitely a generational thing. So again, I certainly didn't mean to offend... because that would be mean. And I and the rest of my generation aren't mean. That's just how friends talked to each other "back in the day". But it's a new day now. So when you say it's a "US thing", I don't think you'll be saying that for much longer, as it looks like our culture is shifting to look less "American", and more in line with the rest of the world. I'm not passing judgement on that statement, but we are culturally losing that "American brashness" which usually rubs the rest of the world the wrong way. :) EDIT: If I can add an afterthought: A more succinct way of saying what I was trying to say above, is that back in my day, we would see our ethnicities, our accents, our race, our height, etc, as qualities that can't be changed, and as such, make us all different! Thus we used humor toward each other to actually celebrate those differences. Because it's those differences that make us a human race, and humor is uniquely human. And one more thing of note... we would never "make fun" of a person's characteristic that COULD be changed. Such as being overweight ("fat", back in my day), or shy, or have a speech impediment, or a "dork", etc. To "make fun" of those characteristics would be mean, as there's always a lot of emotional issues involved with such matters. But when it comes to something that CAN'T be changed, then we're all intelligent enough to actually realize that much. And as such, to also realize the potential for using those "born human" traits as a source of fun humor. Or at least, we *used* to see the humor. I've come to observe that today's newer generations are generally pretty humorless over such matters.