Thank you to Scott Ferrier on BGG who pointed out an error. Regarding building at the two farm brewery locations, I said it is impossible to do that unless you have run your network to it and use an industry card. However, if you have ZERO link or industry tiles on the board, you could use an brewery or wild industry card to build there, per Page 9 of the rule book, "Building If You Have No Tiles on the Board".

This is actually fun to watch and "play" along! I've never seen a video like this, thanks for putting this out!

Great concept! This series will save us so much time at the table. Thanks you!

Fantastic. Every medium to heavy game needs one of these. Well constructed scenarios and clear explanations. Thank you!

Awesome video. I had read the rulebook once and watched a couple How-to-Play videos and felt pretty confident I had it down. I was wrong. This video helped me see the stuff I didn't know I didn't know and potentially avoid misplaying or long drawn-out jumps back to the rulebook for clarification.

What a great idea for a show! Love it!

Wow, what?! This is amazing and I'm so glad I just found your channel! I've been studying the rulebook and watching many how-to-play videos in anticipation of potentially teaching my girlfriend this game (I just want to make sure it goes as smoothly as possible) and I was honestly just thinking that it would be so cool if there was a quiz you could take online of some of the more esoteric rule nuances! I can't believe a channel like yours exists! Thank you for the video... I scored a 94%, so not bad! 🧐

Excellent, I learned a lot from this even though I just watched two entire play throughs! Thank you!

This is GOLD. Great concept and good quility content guys.

One of the most useful and helpful videos for Brass Birmingham in KZfaq! Thank You!!!

Brilliant initiative here! Enjoyable test of your knowledge and clarifies the connections made in the rulebook between the various 'consume', placement, network rules... Great idea to have filmed this - thanks! :-)

Subscribed. Thank you! BGG community needs this.

Thank you!! A couple of the scenarios were really helpful! Thanks again!

Got my first game of Brass:Birmingham coming up. This vid has certainly helped clear up a few rules errors I would have made. Thank you and great vid!

I like that your channel is doing something new. Great concept. Subscribed!

Most satisfying is the number of times hearing an American use the word 'quid' 😀

Great video. Just learned brass and played a 2 player to familiarize myself and made several mistakes, some we realized then and some after watching this video! Thanks!

Great video and love the concept

Great concept! Thx for the test!

This was great - just spent the last few days learning the rules and this was a great test! Got them all right but missed the 2 barrels for the Rail Era on the Brewery (rather than 1 barrel). Great format for learning and testing yourself - if quite stressful (!). Hope it catches on :-)

Really, really helpful guide. I’m just about to play my first game having spent the last couple of days reading the rules and watching playthroughs, so this was a great opportunity to test myself before making a fool of myself teaching the game 😄 I only got one of these scenarios wrong, so I reckon I’m ready to go. Thanks for this, really appreciated and I’m looking forward to checking out your other videos. 👍🏼

SUPER innovative way to teach a game.

Great idea for a video series!

Thank you, useful and fun!

This is amazing! Thank you for putting it together. Hit on a lot of mistakes I've made :)

Very useful. Clarified a lot of game situations.

This a really interesting and very useful formula. Great idea, great vid, thanks!

A great idea and I found very useful to clarify certain situations.

I love the concept of this series. New fan, here.

very good video, please keep going with all of your games

Great Video. Really helped me out!

Great concept. You can probably collect more questions from BGG and make a 2nd video if you want to! Some ppl prefer demos with visualization rather than describing by words. A lot of complex games (ex: Mage knight) can use this rules challenge for ppl to familiar with compound rules.

I’m glad I found you, sir.

great concept! you should put out more of these

Great Video !!!👍👍👍

Great video!!!!!

This is awesome! Thank you :)

This was sooooo useful!

That was really helpful! Thanks :)

Great idea to block the rail line during canal era. Made that mistake a couple of times

What a great idea!

VERY useful thank you! Suscribed

Good job! Great👍

Thank you- watching it for the 2nd time after our 4th game. :)

Me prepping the game for game night tomorrow. Read the rules and watched multiple rule videos and can't play a round before game night (sadly time didn't allow it). I got all challenges correctly, feel well prepared. #4, I would say something but let that slide, because if he places them in the other order then basicly nothing changes and is legal.

Super helpful! Thanks! Even after watching a how to play video and reading the instructions, still got two things wrong.

I found this format very informative, and fun to watch! Thanks for the informative concept and explainer. I have noted the 16 examples below, so I (or others) may reference quickly during a game. General tips - play money to cards to help with calculating first, before committing to the board. 1. Loans - Income marker moves 3 TIERS down (not 3 spaces) to the highest space in that tier. Cannot take a loan if it would take your income level below -10. 2. Building - In Canal Era, cannot build more than once in any location. Rail era is fine, and if you already exist there can use industry card as it's already in-network. 3. Developing - costs iron PER tile removed, maximum of two iron used. 4. Double rail build (treat as sequential rail builds, 1 coal first, then a 2nd coal and a beer) - first link MUST access coal through it's construction (can be to market or a coal industry on board), second link MUST access coal AND beer through it's construction. There may be a case where coal is depleted from an industry tile and not connected to a market making this move impossible. Be sure to check your connections. 5. Double rail build - requires beer, MUST be from industry tiles. Illegal to use from markets, those are for sales only. 6. Scout action - 1 card to take the action, then swapping 2 in hand for 1 each universal card (location/industry). 7. Farm breweries - MUST have your connection to the farm by canal/rail using industry card. Exception, it is your first industry on the board (no previous builds, nor links); this may happen near the start of each era. 8. Double rail Beer - your own beer is accessible regardless if linked or not; if you choose to use other player's beer it must be networked to the very rails you are connecting. 9. Coal consumption - MUST consume from industry tiles first (even if not your own) if they exist and are connected, if multiple coal industries are linked near your build the location of consumption is determined by proximity, must consume closest coal first, then beyond - if tied, your choice. The market (when connected) will always be consumed second if all linked coal industry tiles are exhausted. 10. Overbuilding other players - you may overbuild your own tiles any time, but overbuilding other player's is only acceptible IF the market (coal/iron) has been completely exhausted. 11. Sales to market (coal) - coal from built industry tile will only restock the coal market IF connected to market. Iron consumed comes from industry tiles first, regardless if connected or not. 12. Connecting and refilling coal - As a continuation of 11 above, coal from built industry only ever restocks the market if connected by a link first. It is not retroactive, in other words once a connection to market is made coal does not automatically refill the market - it stays on the industry tile. 13. Using industry cards - can only build industries in YOUR network. Your network is defined as connected by YOUR links (canals or rails), or by your own pre-existing industry in the Rail era. 14. Selling - Beer is consumed upon selling, you may use beer at the market (if your industry tile matches the market sale tile), your own beer from anywhere on the board (regardless of connection), or another player's beer if linked. Multiple sales in one action are acceptable. You may mix and match/choose beer consumed by any means (proximity doesn't matter), but you only get the market bonus (extra coins, extra VP, etc.) if the beer from the market is consumed - they are one time use bonuses. 15. Networking - Building your link must originate from your industry tile, or through a location that your previous link connected to. Exception, if you have no industries or canals/rails on the board you may build your first canal/rail anywhere. 16. Beer barrels from another player - can only be used if linked BOTH to the industry tile you are attempting to sell AND the specific market that your goods are accepted at. In other words, connections to beer (even if from your own rail) cannot be used that are distinct networks from where the sale is happening.

Oh, what a surface! 🤩

Very fun video! But I believe you mis-spoke about one rule. In the #14 sell action you say the opponent's beer consumed for a sale must be connected to the merchant to whom you're making the sale. But the rule is that the opponent's beer must be connected to the industry you just built, not the merchant.

Great video, I got 100% Do Gloomhaven!!

Good plan for a channel! Thanks! you should try Advanced Squad Leader sometimes ... oh, moving downhill with a winterized unit with skis? Is that +1MP or +2MP? lol. Rules come in an ever expanding 3-ring binder. Great war game though.

This is a really good idea, and I like it. Could I suggest that you point out alternative moves in shot that would correct the error (for example, taking the nearby beer from the yellow tile instead of trying to take from the market)? And also I think it would be really useful if you backed up and corrected the game state before playing on. Well done, great concept. Now, could you do War of the Ring? :D

I believe you made a small mistake. For Number 4, placing those two link tiles are effectively legal. Your first Rail can go between Cannock and Burton-On-Trent, and your second tile can go between Burton-On-Trent and Derby. Per The Rule Book-- "Each rail Link is placed separately and must be connected to a source of coal after it is placed."

Just got the game. Great video, thank you. Please were did you get the poker chips? Thank you

i think 5th rule is illegal not only because of the beer, but also if i place a connection token should i already have an acces to coal? in video it happens after

On #4, I think a second reason why gray could not have played the 2nd rail link (even if he was connected to coal) is that he did not have a presence in either Burton-On-Trent or Cannock. So it was outside his network and therefore illegal... no?

Great vid - cleared up many issues for us. A query you didn't cover: when building a coal mine or ironworks when there are gaps in the central market that automatically flip the card, does the money back from the sold iron/coal get deducted from the spend cost, for the purpose of determining the next round playing order? Or is it just the build cost?

Very good video I only have one question. When we make sell action, in rulebook says that after we sell to the market we have to flip that market tile as well, doesn't matter if we use market beer or not, in that case there will be no more sales available for other players in that market (assuming there is no more unfliped tiles in that spot)?? So I have to be connected not to any market, but to right market with right good, then after sale tile is flipped and others cannot use this time of building again for sale? Pls reply.

On #8 in 13:25 you took your own beer from wild brewery which was not connected to any network. I understand it is just for demo purpose. In normal case it would be illegal right? (As you showed in point #7 but you just took the train tile away)

Great video and format! Quick question, re #4, can the rail link between Cannock and Burton on Trent be placed legally, THEN then other link? so does simply switching the order they were placed make it sequential and therefore legal?

This one is tricky. I want to build a farm and there are two places where to build it in Kidderminster. One slot is for the farm and one slot is for coal/farm. Rules says that farm slot should be used first if both slots are empty. This one is clear. But one thing that is not mentioned in there rules: If I want to sell my farm to Oxford and there are two free beers in Oxford. One beer is for the farm and one is for "multiproduct". Do I have to use "farmbeer" first (with the same logic as in Kidderminster) or I am allowed to use "multiproduct beer" first?

This is really awesome!!! 🥳but I do have a couple follow on questions: #4-the double network action.. you completed the turn, what was the end result? did the player place the second link to the Nottingham market? because the other option was not legal at all (as I understand it). #8, double RR build, beer consumption. just curious was this purely for set up; there was no link making the beer farm a legal placement for Purple. Should Purple have actually had a link to that beer farm, between Ketterminster and the other station in order to place the industry tile as noted in #7, their first action? Just making sure... given the comments in your Intro!😁

Hey! Nice video! I had a question tho. When you have 2 beer barrels at the trade station. ( 2 differant trade goods. ) lets say Pottery and General goods. Player 1 sells his pottery to the station. He uses the beer next to the vender tile. So far all good. Now player 2 wants to sell as well. Can he sell also pottery using the beer next to the trade goods?

So the Beer dom have to be conected as in#8 or have to be conected as in#9?

how many developments can you do with one action card? (on #3)

Can some1 explain me what happens when i upgrade my "sold" pottery from lvl 1 to lvl 2? Do i lose points and income from lvl1?

Great concept for videos. Just a quick one though example 2. You used an iron from the market without any connection to it is that legal?

What kind of material/fabric is your table top made of?

Hi! I have a question for you concern to selling action. I don’t understand in the electronic version of the game why I can’t sell to manufacture industries simultaneously. Can I send you a picture via email?

Another question, Is question 9 also illegal because you took beer from an opponents brewery that was still unconnected after you placed your first link? Or is it allowed as its in the context of a double rail build which is 1 action?

9:18 - you mentioned that step to be illegal with the 2 railways -ok but when you lay first the line between market and Derby there is a connection with the coal but no beer - so why is then gray paying 15 if he can not built the lines and can not consume the beer 23:50 - why didn't purpe built 2 lines - 2 coals available and a beer in Nuneaton ?? ok - now i konw when I see you next number 18 - you needed the beer for the next schooling .-

I enjoyed this but why did you do it with the bosses upside down? So much harder to see what's going on!

in 13:21 there should be 3 or 2 barrels ?

26:58 "it has to connect to the merchant where you're making the sale" - that's incorrect, it has to connect to the industry tile where you're making the sale!

#2 is illegal in the canal era which it obviously is by the player board.

I dig it! I treated is as a game itself haha. I found #4 misleading though. If you switched the order of the links placement, it would be a legal move with the exact same outcome. So yes, technically #4 is illegal, but in practice it really isn't.

Three legitimate ways of pronouncing 'Shrewsbury', and you got none of them lol SHROOZ-BRI (Local, standard) SHROWZ-BRI (Local, posh) SHOOZ-BRI (Local, working class from long line of residents. Pronounciation based on town's original German name) Name of the game is pronounced 'burmingum'. Other than those two glitches, excellent pronunciation.