Solo Play Sunday: Brass: Birmingham! 🚂 (Mautoma Solo Variant)

Note: there are some rules mistakes in this playthrough. Check out the comments below for clarifications/corrections. Thanks!

Thank you so much for joining me for a very special Solo Play Sunday! I'd been meaning to take on the daunting task of learning the Mautoma solo variant for this game for a while now and when Steve reached out to me requesting a train-themed Solo Play Sunday in honor of his father, I knew that Brass: Birmingham would be the one I'd play. A special thank you to Steve for reaching out to me and for sharing a little bit about his dad Tony Bewley. As always, if you have a recommendation for a charity I should check out for a future Solo Play Sunday, you can leave a comment here, message me on Instagram, send me an email... whatever works best for you!

The charity for this week is the U.K. Alzheimer's Society, "a vital source of support and a powerful force for change for everyone affected by dementia. Our supporters ensure that people living with dementia today have the support they deserve, that their rights are protected and enhanced by campaigning, and that they can look to a brighter future thanks to investment in research."

In this video:
00:00 Intro
00:55 Canal Era
19:38 Canal Era Scoring
22:03 Rail Era
46:49 Final Scoring
49:38 Micro Loan and Donation to the U.K. Alzheimer's Society

#brass #brassbirmingham #sologaming

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Peaky Blinders Music and Ambience ~ Birmingham Docks

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[BoardGameDave]

A big thank you to Fabrice Brisbois who pointed out that I should not have been triggering two action slots from the front side of the card for the AI on its turn. The FAQ says that "The Automa, like a normal player, performs always two ACTIONS per turn (only one in the very first game's turn). In order to decide which ACTIONS the Automa takes, you should draw a card and apply the first ACTION SLOT which implies valid ACTIONS. Most of the time the ACTION SLOTS of the front side of the cards imply the execution of one ACTION, but certain ACTION SLOTS can drive two ACTIONS. After you have applied the ACTION SLOT on the front side, if the Automa has already performed two ACTIONS, its turn ends immediately, while if it has performed only one ACTION, you should apply the first valid ACTION SLOT among the ones depicted on the back of the card on top of the deck." Thankfully this didn't throw off every single AI turn, but I did make this mistake at 4:08, 5:39, 10:03, 14:44, 16:29, 25:48, 31:21, 34:34, and 44:31 (where I skipped the AI's second turn). Sorry for the mistake–I'm almost sure I was playing that correctly during my practice playthroughs but somehow I got it wrong here!

p.s. One other mistake! At 29:00 I shouldn't have built that link there as it's not part of the AI's network. (Thanks for catching that one, BoardGameGreeks!)

[HuntressMedia]

I love this game! Thanks for showing this - didn't know you could solo this game. So many times I setup a game for solo and don't really finish a full game hehe. Lonely...;)

[Cymrusaint]

Just got this game, and I'm loving it. I didn't know it could be played solo, thanks for doing this video. I don't mean to be rude, but it's so funny watching Americans trying to pronounce English place names. Just so you know, Worcester is pronounced Wuster, Gloucester is pronounced Gloster, and we miss out the letter "h" in "Birmingam". I have no idea why we don't use these letters, we just don't. 😊

[JoshuaCJones]

Thanks so much for this awesome video my friend!

[terrytoriq]

Lovely playtru Dave. Brass is probably the most popular game that I hate with burning passion. :D But it was very entertaining to watch. Again, big love for the series. You should do a Solo Play Sunday with "On Mars" by Vital Lacerda btw. I think you will love that game.
Anyway, have a lovely week :)

[akosjanosik]

40:37 Here you played 2 rounds, discarded 4 cards, but only used 3. So you missed 1 round of AI. You can see it at 42:18. There were so many mistakes in this game that I don't think the final result is relevant.

[BoardGameGreeks]

At 29:00 I don't think that it should build the link there. The outer market is not part of its network. Also.. it's a very good video. I really enjoyed it

[hurdhurdik]

5:31 why must by S/N brewery connect to a network to alow automa place brewery there ?

[amerol]

You don't play the Automa correctly. In general, you do one slot from the front side and one slot from the back side, never two slots from the front side.

Find the topmost action slot in which there is a legal action for Automa to take. The Automa does this.
If the Automa has taken two actions, its turn now ends. If only one, look at the back of the next card. The Automa takes the topmost legal action.

[amirPirmoradi-qfjk]

سلام ،چرا این نسخه ای که من تهیه کردم رو جلدش زده ۲ تا ۵ نفر؟یعنی نمیشه یک نفره بازی کرد؟

[przemekg.]

Hi, great video ! Would you recommend this game for solo only ?

[dimpleza]

This looks so very intimidating to me... I can't get myself to even try it 🥴
Would you recommend it? Solo only?

[EusebioDondedas]

We English love hearing our towns mispronounced, so please don't take this as criticism, but you might like to know that 'Gloucester' is pronounced 'Gloster' and 'Worcester' is pronounced 'Wuhster'... if you ever have to pronounce 'Leicester', it's 'Lester' btw 😂 x

[jorgemorales-huxy]

Hello the money you use where im can buy?

[jchangaus]

ngl, the lack of developing done was a bit maddening. :D

[vincelupo]

May I suggest not using music in your videos? It's very distracting for me. Not sure I can finish the video with that repetitive music going on. I understand why some video channels use it but I would rather hear subtle background sounds than bad earworm music.