Brass Birmingham Strategic Commentary - WSBG Ring Final
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- Strategic commentary breakdown of the Brass Birmingham ring final at the first ever World Series of Board Gaming held in Las Vegas. NOW WITH GUEST STAR LUCA!
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Jared, Luca, Randy, and Josh jockey for industrial supremacy in this heavy euro.
This is not the original commentary for the game and I am not associated with WSBG in any fashion except as a consumer. This video was made with WSBG's permission.
So nice of Luca to come in and present every move in such detail! Thank you both
He was great :)
Evening sorted, thanks for doing these! I'm very new to the hobby and even for games I'm less familiar with, hearing what you prioritize and what questions you ask has been super helpful for me!
Glad you're enjoying the videos! I was very thankful to get Luca's wonderful insight here
love the content. Learn a lot!
Thanks for watching!
Thanks Nick and Luca. I am not in the Brass tourney this year but thanks appreciate insight incase I can get past a final table this time. Hearing about how working with others instead of clashing with the wool was eye opening.
It helped me too! What games will you be playing?
@@phoenicksgaming I am playing Wingspan, Cascadia, Ticket to ride and Azul. I was in the finals of the Bloodrage tourney last year.
Interesting video! Nice to hear from Luca!
I don't get to play enough Brass to have a grasp on expert-level tactics. But I have noticed that one of the best Brass players (PROJ on BGG) has started several strategy threads over the past 3-5 years arguing for a very complementary playstyle of situational cooperation between players.
I can tell he's really thought this through in great detail, but other experts seem not to go as far as him, and it sounds like Luca doesn't entirely buy in to that level of heavy integration. So perhaps a genuine difference of perspective even among experienced players on that point.
Agreed, and significantly, your group's meta dictates this pretty heavily. To try for heavy cooperation but not to have the other players play ball leads to trouble
Luca!
What would a bad hand look like?
In the canal era: all industry cards. In rail: cards that don't match your game plan (lots of cotton mills but you're playing a different strategy)
So, what’s the point to attempt to win, if some players just leave 2 beers for your rival, giving him quad rail. Jeff won, no problem. But he is not the strongest, cos the weak players made him look strong and win.
Perhaps they’d stolen victory from Luca…
Perhaps, but isn't 4p gaming about jockeying around the decisions all players make?
@@phoenicksgaming well, I’d definitely prefer to be the one who’s turn is right AFTER those who make a decision to place/leave two beers for my quadrail
@@phoenicksgaming Luca himself admitted that quad rail is a potentially winning move. So those, who create the opportunity for their rival to make the move by providing the rival with two beers on board ARE WEAK PLAYERS.
The violet guy created the victorious Jeff, it’s violets decision to make Jeff a winner!
@@phoenicksgaming I’ve got not extremely significant amount of games. Somewhat 35-40. And this is not the first time I see a well balanced game is ruined by a blunder. Brass - at some point - becomes a game of not what you are doing, but a game of what blunder can be done by another participants. And of a luck to be the next one (in turn) to benefit from the blunder.
What’s more stupid is that then those ones who made the blunder say “look, I’m on the second place, hey, not a bad result”. And I go “look, if you are initially playing just to take a “not bad place”, then I regret having the game with you”
@@phoenicksgaming btw, deep respect to Luca: he was so calm talking about those beers left open for use, he never tried to accuse this move (like I am doing now).
Hypothetically, considering no “donation moves”, Luca is a winner. But again: we depend on other players poor moves (that create tremendous opportunities to our rivals, unless we are the ones to benefit from those)