Brass Lancashire and Brass Birmingham

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Last year, Roxley Games kickstarted a deluxe version of the classic Martin Wallace economic strategy game **Brass**. The deluxe edition was renamed [Brass Lancashire](https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/28720/brass-lancashire), and a follow-on game [Brass Birmingham](https://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/224517/brass-birmingham) was also released. Both of these games are beautiful, yet they both use a lot of tiles for each player, which makes them difficult to organize in just a couple of plastic bags. The first item I designed was a tray (with lid) that would store all the tiles and counters for each player. These trays were designed to fit perfectly inside the larger parts well in the box insert, utilizing every available space. This well has sculpted corners, so the trays were carefully crafted to match these contours, ensuring maximum space utilization. There's a separate model for Brass Lancashire and Brass Birmingham because each game requires a different number of tiles. The tray lids feature a window, allowing you to see which color tiles are inside. The tile trays are intended to be filled in reverse (first tiles used are loaded in the tray first, upside down). When setting up the game, simply open the tray, remove the character tile, and then carefully turn the tray over. Move the tiles to their correct location on the player board. My second design was a custom deck box to hold the location and industry cards. Since I sleeved my cards, the box needed to be large enough to accommodate them comfortably. Brass Lancashire has fewer cards than Brass Birmingham, but it also includes a plaque that gets stuck into the deck during play. This can be stored in the deck box as well. Finally, there are wooden tokens representing different types of commodities in each game, which require trays to keep them organized. For Lancashire, a single tray is used for iron and coal, while Birmingham has one for beer barrels and another for iron, coal, and merchant tiles. I also added a box for the foreign market tiles for Lancashire. **Brass Lancashire BOM** | Item | Qty | Purpose | | ---- | --- | ------- | | brass-lancashire-tile-box.stl | 4 | Industry tiles, link tiles, counters, Character tile | | brass-lancashire-tile-lid.stl | 4 | | | brass-lancashire-goods-box.stl | 1 | Iron cubes, Coal cubes, Foreign Market marker | | brass-lancashire-goods-lid.stl | 1 | | | brass-lancashire-markets-box.stl | 1 | Foreign Market tiles | | brass-lancashire-markets-lid.stl | 1 | | | brass-deck-box.stl | 1 | Industry cards, Location cards, Player Aid cards, Deck separator | **Brass Birmingham BOM** | Item | Qty | Purpose | | ---- | --- | ------- | | brass-birmingham-tile-box.stl | 4 | Industry tiles, link tiles, counters, Character tile | | brass-birmingham-tile-lid.stl | 4 | | | brass-birmingham-goods-box.stl | 1 | Iron cubes, Coal cubes, Merchant tiles | | brass-birmingham-goods-lid.stl | 1 | | | brass-birmingham-beer-box.stl | 1 | Beer barrels | | brass-birmingham-beer-lid.stl | 1 | | | brass-deck-box.stl | 1 | Industry cards, Location cards, Wild cards, Player Aid cards | Full sources are available on [GitHub](https://github.com/wcraigtrader/game-parts/tree/master/brass). Updated on 2018-08-16 07:58 EDT with latest models Updated on 2018-08-16 21:01 EDT with corrected box lids Updated on 2018-08-22 06:20 EDT with resized parts boxes Updated on 2018-09-16 17:56 EDT with printable guide for tile arrangement **Updated on 2019-01-29 17:22 EDT with inset labels for the tile compartments**