Player aid

Brass: Birmingham

Build networks, grow industries, and navigate the world of the Industrial Revolution.

Remove all cards and Merchant tiles that show a number players higher than the number that will be playing.
Place the Wild Location and Wild Industry cards face up on the 2 Card Draw areas.
Remove the blue and teal Location cards from the Draw Deck. (3P: Remove only teal, 4P: do not remove any cards).
- These cities can still be built in and linked to regardless of player count.
Shuffle the remaining cards and place them face down on the Card Draw Area.
Shuffle the remaining Merchant tiles and place 1 face up on each of the Merchant spaces marked with the # of players.
Place 1 beer barrel on each beer barrel space beside a non-blank Merchant tile.
Place 1 black cube on each space of the Coal Market, leaving 1 of the £1 spaces empty.
Place 1 orange cube on each space of the Iron Market, leaving both of the £1 spaces empty.
Each player chooses a colour and gets all pieces of their colour.
Each player starts with £17.
Each player places their Industry tiles on their player mat in the spaces shown with the black side face down.
Each player places their VP Marker on the 0 VP space.
Each player places their Income Marker on the 10 space of the Progress track.
Each player draws 8 cards to form their Hand.
Each player draws 1 card from the Draw Deck and places it face down in their player area as their Discard Pile.
Shuffle the Character tiles and place them randomly on the Turn Order Track.

After flipping an Industry tile, the owner moves their Income Marker number of spaces shown in the arrow.
A location on the board is considered to be part of your network if the location contains 1 or more of your Industry tiles or is adjacent to 1 or more of your Link tiles.
Locations are considered connected to each other if you can trace a route of Link tiles owned by any player between them.
Cotton Mills, Manufacturers, and Potteries are flipped when you perform the Sell action.
Coal Mines, Iron Works, and Breweries are flipped when the last resources is removed from them.
Cards are placed face up in your personal Discard Area after being played. Wild cards are always returned to their piles.

Whenever a player spends money, the place the spent money on their Character tile instead of in the bank.
A player gets 2 actions on their turn. During the first round of the Canal Era, each player performs only 1 action.
- You may perform the same action twice in a single turn.
- You may pass but must discard a card when doing so.
After completing your 2 actions, draw back up to 8 cards. If the deck is empty, do not draw but keep playing cards.
After all players have taken their 2 actions, the round ends.

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