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2027BGG rank #6,283

Brass: Pittsburgh

by Gavan Brown, Martin Wallace · Roxley

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Players1–4
Time0m
ComplexityMedium-Heavy
Age14+

About the game

What is Brass: Pittsburgh?

From Roxley and Gavan Brown, co-designer of Brass: Birmingham, comes Brass: Pittsburgh, which allows you to re-experience the explosive late 19th-century industrial boom of America's Gilded Age in its northeastern "Steel Belt" region (1865-1913). Players take on the role of a ruthless industrial titan in the age of Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and Henry Frick as they build sprawling networks of railways, pipelines, steel mills, oil refineries, and more. Built on Martin Wallace's acclaimed Brass system, this standalone game introduces innovative new mechanisms and content, while maintaining the overall structure and strategic depth for which Brass has become known.

How it plays

Mechanics

ChainingHand ManagementIncomeLoansMarketMulti-Use CardsNetwork and Route BuildingOwnershipTech Trees / Tech TracksTile PlacementTurn Order: Stat-BasedVariable Set-up

On the shelf

Categories

EconomicIndustry / Manufacturing

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