• Martin Wallace’s original masterpiece
• As one of the top 30 highest rated board games on boardgamegeek.com, Brass is widely regarded as one of the deepest, most replayable economic games ever designed.
• Tweaked rule set and balance
• Improved 2 & 3 player rules provide an experience more consistent with 4 player
• New high quality components including 4 player mats

And if you haven’t played Brass: Birmingham…

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All factions can improve their skills in six different areas of development — Terraforming, Navigation, Artificial Intelligence, Gaiaforming, Economy, Research — leading to advanced technology and special bonuses. To do all of that, each group has special skills and abilities.

The playing area is made of ten sectors, allowing a variable set-up and thus an even bigger replay value than its predecessor, Terra Mystica. A two-player game is hosted on seven sectors.

Contents:

10 Space Sector Tiles
1 Research Board
7 Double-Sided Faction Boards
1 Scoring Board
10 Round Scoring Tiles6 Final Scoring Tiles
10 Round Boosters
36 Standard Tech Tiles
15 Advanced Tech Tiles
6 Space Stations
19 Federation Tokens
12 Gaia Planet Tokens
1 Lost Planet Tokens
15 Record Tokens
20 Action Tokens
7 Automa Cards
1 Terraforming Reference Card
17 Decision Cards
1 Automa Rulebook
1 Automa Player Aid
4 Player Aids
1 Turn Order Card
14 Credit Makers
7 Ore Markers
7 Knowledge Makers
30 Quantum Intelligence Cubes
50 Power Tokens
1 Brainstone
1 First Player Marker

Structures (in each player color)
– 8 Mines
– 4 Trading Stations
– 3 Research Labs
– 2 Academies
– 1 Planetary Institute
– 3 Gaiaformers
– 7 Player Tokens
– 25 Satellites

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Wingspan Asia is several different things: A stand-alone game for 1 player or 2 players (Duet mode that can be used with any bird/bonus cards), a card expansion to the original Wingspan (any bird/bonus cards across any Wingspan game or expansion can be combined), and a 6-7 player expansion via the new Flock mode (for which the player components from the core game are necessary).

Components:

• 2 rulebooks (multiplayer and Automa)
• 1 appendix
• 2 player mats (double-sided with standard and Oceania sides)
• 16 action cubes (8 in each color)
• Duet mode (2 players): 1 duet map, 6 goal tiles, 30 duet tokens, and 2 swift-start guides
• Flock mode (6-7 players): 1 turn-order dial, 1 round-end goal board
• Automa (solo mode)
• 81 food tokens
• 5 food dice
• 1 birdfeeder board
• 1 bird tray
• 1 first-player token
• 1 scorepad (custom printable scoresheets available here)
• 1 box (296x215x40mm; 1.2 kg)
• 90 bird cards (57x87mm)
• 14 bonus cards (57x87mm)
• 18 Automa cards (57x87mm)

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As in its predecessor, you must develop, build, and establish your industries and network, in an effort to exploit low or high market demands.

Each round, players take turns according to the turn order track, receiving two actions to perform any of the following actions (found in the original game):

1) Build – Pay required resources and place an industry tile.
2) Network – Add a rail / canal link, expanding your network.
3) Develop – Increase the VP value of an industry.
4) Sell – Sell your cotton, manufactured goods and pottery.
5) Loan – Take a £30 loan and reduce your income.

Brass: Birmingham also features a new sixth action:

6) Scout – Discard three cards and take a wild location and wild industry card. (This action replaces Double Action Build in original Brass.)

The game is played over two halves: the canal era (years 1770-1830) and the rail era (years 1830-1870). To win the game, score the most VPs. VPs are counted at the end of each half for the canals, rails and established (flipped) industry tiles.

Birmingham features dynamic scoring canals/rails. Instead of each flipped industry tile giving a static 1 VP to all connected canals and rails, many industries give 0 or even 2 VPs. This provides players with the opportunity to score much higher value canals in the first era, and creates interesting strategy with industry placement.

Iron, coal, and cotton are three industries which appear in both the original Brass as well as in Brass: Birmingham.

New “Sell” system

Brewing has become a fundamental part of the culture in Birmingham. You must now sell your product through traders located around the edges of the board. Each of these traders is looking for a specific type of good each game. To sell cotton, pottery, or manufactured goods to these traders, you must also “grease the wheels of industry” by consuming beer. For example, a level 1 cotton mill requires one beer to flip. As an incentive to sell early, the first player to sell to a trader receives free beer.

Birmingham features three all-new industry types:

Brewery – Produces precious beer barrels required to sell goods.

Manufactured goods – Function like cotton, but features eight levels. Each level of manufactured goods provides unique rewards, rather than just escalating in VPs, making it a more versatile (yet potentially more difficult) path vs cotton.

Pottery – These behemoths of Birmingham offer huge VPs, but at a huge cost and need to plan.

Increased Coal and Iron Market size – The price of coal and iron can now go up to £8 per cube, and it’s not uncommon.

Brass: Birmingham is a sequel to Brass. It offers a very different story arc and experience from its predecessor.

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From daybreak to sunset, from trailhead to land’s end, and season after season, you’ll guide your fellow travelers to explore every site along the way. Fill your canteen, load your gear, check your map, pack your camera, lace your boots, pitch your tent, and take it all in. But plot your course carefully: the trail leads in one direction, and other teams of hikers are racing to be the first to camp.

So hike every trail, scale every peak, cross every stream, roam every forest, and explore every wonder of the U.S. National Parks.

• The definitive, ultimate edition of the beloved and award-winning National Parks board game, rebuilt from the ground up.
• Expanded, updated gameplay, incorporating elements from the Nightfall and Wildlife expansions, plus additional new surprises.
• All new art and graphic design throughout, with evocative illustrations of all 63 U.S. National Parks by Josh Emrich and Lisk Feng.
• Built-in organization with custom trays for the sustainably sourced custom wooden pieces that make Parks easy to get to the table.
• 1% of every sale is donated to the National Parks Service, making this the perfect gift for every nature lover, backpacker, or parks enthusiast.

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If you cleverly manage your herd and navigate the opportunities and pitfalls of Great Western Trail, you surely will gain the most victory points and win the game.

The second edition of Great Western Trail includes solitaire rules, making for a player count of 1-4.

Second Edition:
Remember the old days in the West? Well, the times they are a-changing’! From new solo opponent to incredible landscapes, you won’t know where to start. And there is a new herd of cows for you to sell!

Great Western Trail is the critically acclaimed game of cattle ranching by Alexander Pfister. Players attempt to wrangle their herd across the Midwest prairie and deliver it to Kansas City. But beware! Other cowboys are sharing the trail with you. We invite you to saddle up!

The changes in the Second edition:

• Brand New Artwork by Chris Quilliams
• Solo Mode: A New Challenger in the West
• Dual-Layered Player Boards
• Addition of a new breed of cows: The Simmental breed
• Two new reversible buildings (#11 & 12)
• Twelve Exchange Tokens, First introduced in the Rails of North Expansion, for more interaction with other players
• Four new Master Tiles added for more strategy, replayability, and challenges

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