Mayfair Games previewed Martin Wallace’s Age of Industry (MSRP $65.00) at GenCon. The deluxe, Euro-style board game should arrive at retail by September 23rd. In this streamlined redesign of his Brass board game Wallace has added more flexibility to the game play, which involves investing in the production of raw materials, the manufacturing of goods, and developing the transportation networks needed to convey them to market. Players take on the roles of tycoons in the early days of the Industrial Revolution, but unlike Brass, the rules in Age of Industry have been simplified by eliminating the canal period—the action all takes place in the railway era, and as a result of this change Age of Industry can be played in half the time it takes to play Brass.
Age of Industry is a TreeFrog Games title, distributed in
