Brass was certainly greatly in need of something like this. Unfortunately there are some more niggling rules you left out. I did not find the rule that on the first turn you take only one action and discard only one card. That's why there are four more cards in the Rail Era. We kept ending up with the wrong number of cards.

A good example of a rule that is hidden in the rule book is the rule that you can't build a port on the port/cotton space if the port only space is still open. It's listed alphabetically under Lancaster and Preston, the two cites where the rule applies. You included this as an exception. Oh that's where you put single action on the first turn. I guess that is an exception, but it's more of a beginning of game mechanic.

The problem in organizing the rules to this game is that it just doesn't organize well. It has too many rules -- too many types of rules. It's a game that needed more playtesting before it was released.

You may only use industry cards to build in locations that are part of your personal networks.

The appropriate owners get the listed income.

External ports printed on map

During Canal phase, each player may only have one industry per location.

Nice aid, very helpful. Some feedback if I may:

This could be misinterpreted as meaning that location cards can't be used to build in such locations (which would be wrong), or that a pair of industry cards doesn't let you build anywhere (also wrong). A less ambiguous wording might be "When building using a single industry card, you may only build in a location within your personal network".

It might be better to say they get the "listed income increase" (to distinguish it from cash).

Might be helpful to name one (e.g. Scotland) as an example, to distinguish them from port spaces.

Does this include ports? This is just my own question, not feedback about your doc.

At least Brass was 20X easier to digest than Byzantium. Byzantium's list of exceptions for Constantinople alone would have been 2 pages.

5. You can replace opponent's coal or iron industry with a higher tech level *if* appropriate external market has bottomed out.

You can build on top of another player’s coal mine with one of your own only if there are no coal cubes in Lancashire or on the Coal Demand track.

Your rules states that if i try to shell cotton at a distant market and i fail, the action finish; for me this means that i can not to shell cotton in other way, for example in a usual flip-port way.
Am i right?
And, if the answer is yes ... ¿where does this rule appears? I can not see it at original rulebook!

Thanks!

I really appreciate this rules summary and the discussion that followed. I see that Isamoor (the OP and creator of the document) agreed with some of the suggested changes. I've subscribed to this file and look forward to an updated version, if that ever happens.

Thanks for this file!

Just learning the game myself, and would also love to see your updated version.

Should the "pass" action (do nothing) also be added to the list of available actions?

The rules from the game say this: You can also choose not to perform an action, but you still discard the card you played.

Hi all,
I'd like to thank Sheamus Parkes for his great synthesis of BRASS rules.
I translated his restructured rules v2.0 in french.
Can someone tell me how to upload my PDF file on BBG, please ?