Re: Re: 2018 Meeple Choice Awards - Final Results

OK, I figured it was just a new map.

On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 2:49 PM David Goldfarb [email protected]
[spielfrieks] <[email protected]> wrote:

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> IMO, Brass: Birmingham is at least as much different from original Brass
> as Power Grid is from the original crayon drawing Funkenschlag. In terms of
> rules differences, much more so: if you had someone who knew Funkenschlag,
> all you needed to tell them was, "Instead of drawing on the map, you have
> pre-calculated connection costs between cities" and they were good to go.
> By contrast, someone who is expert at Brass, to play Birmingham has to
> learn how beer works (including the market bonuses), how the Scouting
> action works, needs to be told how to Scout, has to be told that they can
> take loans through the end of the game, has to be told that flipped
> industries score different amounts when scoring links – there's a good ten
> minutes or more of rules explanations in there.
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> In short, if you would consider San Juan or Race for the Galaxy: New
> Frontiers to be distinct from Puerto Rico, then you should consider Brass:
> Birmingham to be distinct from Brass: Lancashire.
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> David Goldfarb
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