A completely new game in the Brass family of games is coming, and it’s called Brass: Pittsburgh. It’s only just been announced, but we’ve got some thoughts, and want you to speculate along with us about what to expect!
*Follow the Campaign:*
https://gamefound.com/en/projects/roxley/brass-pittsburgh
*BGG Page:*
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/452264/brass-pittsburgh
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Let me summarise “we don’t know anything about the game”. But like me somehow still quite excited by the notion
Btw, Birmingham is not the better game its just the more complex version 😉
Thanks guys!! Please keep going with the news
Huge fan of the Brass games, especially Birmingham so I imagine I'm gonna love this new one. Can't wait.
Nucleum is there greatest game of all time.
Brass B – it’s a great game but the strategy is always the same. I owned it.
Brass L – haven’t played.
Brass P – I’ll probably back it because I hope it will innovate on Brass B and L.
Nucleum for sure could be on their radar, its well made, popular and 157 on BGG, if they did their research, Nucleum was in it, only way it was not is if it was too late in the development when Nucleum came out
Knows nothing about it, makes up some stuff and still is hyping it up to number 1 already. Worst shilling yet
Love hearing your pronunciation of UK place names.
Lan-Ka-Sheer and
Bur-Ming-Hum
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This video should be titled "7 ways to mispronounce Lancashire"
Have you never played Le Havre? You turn coal into Coke.
Speculation: I suspect it'll have a brass esque network of resources of Iron, Coal, and probably Oil, with some of those being needed to expand your networks (since that's part of what played into that boom in real life). It'll be neat to see what they do with it, and what parts of history they touch on. I hope the mentioned names are nods to the Era, and not the "characters" players use, because some of those guys weren't great, others were even worse. (I doubt anyone in Johnstown PA will play Henry Frick willingly)
I've never played any of the Brass games, mostly because our game group has 5 players and Brass is only 4 and it's kind of crunchy for a couple of them it seems. I like crunchy games though and I will finally get to try Birmingham at an upcoming convention in 3 weeks. I need to see why it's number 1! I had been a very hard core 18xx player in the past so the train theme and economics do appeal to me. If I like it at the Con I may just back Pittsburgh.
Us people from Pittsburgh probably know Frick (Frick Park and museums), coke (the steelers logo is often interpreted as blue = coke, orange = iron, blue = scrap steel.), etc. 🙂
You can ID us because we'll be correcting your mispronunciation of Carnegie, not the ones correcting your mispronunciation of Lancashire. 😀
As for your question, I can't get past the fact that you spelled Pittsburgh wrong in the question. j/k. I don't think it will replace it for everyone. There are a lot of people who think Lancashire is a better game because it is more streamlined and the map is tighter, and that was especially true when the Roxley editions came out. I believe critics at the time phrased it as Birmingham is a "standalone expansion" to Lancashire. I imagine they'll do the same with Pittsburgh but go into a different direction. Apparently that direction was originally planned to be a lighter version of Brass until they researched the Gilded Age and went in another direction, but with a requirement that the play time should still be in the "sweet spot" that Birmingham has. Don't know what that'll be but it sounds exciting.
(Brass:Scotland is likely to be the lighter version, apparently Martin Wallace himself is doing a lot of the designing there)
When I saw the title, I thought it was one of The Dragon's Tomb videos! When I realized it was a real thing, I got excited 😂
The recent steel mill explosion near Pittsburgh was at their coking plant.
You misspelled pittsburgh in one of your captions.
Hoosier here. I'll hold out for the Brass Gary since Indiana is the largets producing steel state in the country. 😉
Pittsburgher here… The bridges have to play an important part of this game. Not a stretch considering we have over 400 (not sure how many at that time) and there's a bridge on the cover. Nickname is "City of Bridges".
Super pepped for the game!
*Lancashire ("Lank-a-shur")
Thanks for sharing. First I’ve heard of this game.
Will it be better? Excellent thought. Are they coming out with another game in the franchise because it is an improved game or to leverage the franchise for sales and profit. Course the two aren’t mutually exclusive.