Any Brass players here? What's your favourite strategy?
I won a 3 player game last night by focusing early on coal, iron and beer while my opponents concentrated on other industries, and were regularly flipping my tiles for me. This gave me an early income lead which I used to fund a massive canal network. I followed the same general plan for the rail era, but did buy and flip a few other industries. I used the money I accumulated in the first half to do several turns where for both actions I did a double railway which also allowed me to flip a lot of my own coal and beer tiles.
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