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Many writing styles have developed over the centuries with the broad nib, including the medieval Uncial, Blackletter and Carolingian minuscule scripts (and their variants), the Italic Hand of the Renaissance, and more recently Edward Johnston's Foundational Hand, developed in the early 20th century. Thick and thin strokes are created by varying the direction of the stroke. The pen is usually held at a constant angle to the horizontal different scripts require different nib angles. The broad nib, also called broad-edge or chisel-edge, is the older of the two nib types. Pen nibs come in a variety of different shapes and sizes for different purposes but can be split into two main types: broad nibs and pointed nibs. Also, they can now be attached to and removed from holders, allowing one to switch between nibs with relative ease. Metal nibs are also easily manufactured to have different properties for different purposes. The metal nib retains a sharp point or edge much longer than the quill, which wears out more quickly and requires much skill to sharpen. It was not until the 1820s, when John Mitchell, Josiah Mason and others set up a factory in Birmingham, England to manufacture steel nibs, that their popularity took off. In the early 1800s, Wise in Britain, and Peregrine Williamson in the United States were the first recorded makers of steel pens as their primary occupation. Metallic nibs were made up through the 18th-century as one-off, craftsman-made luxury items. However, the quality of writing that could be achieved with these pens was inferior to that of reed pens. Metal nibs have their origins as far back as ancient Egypt and were made of metals like copper and bronze.

For business purposes, the quill was fairly quickly overtaken however, it remains popular for personal use and for artistic work. The quill was in common use until the early 19th century and the advent of the metal nib.

A quill has the advantage of being more durable and more flexible than a reed pen, and it can also retain ink in the hollow shaft of the feather, known as the calamus, allowing more writing time between ink dippings. Quills are fashioned by cutting a nib into the end of a feather obtained from a fairly large bird, such as a goose, traditionally from its left wing. The quill replaced the reed pen across Europe by the Early Middle Ages and remained the main writing tool of the West for nearly a thousand years until the 17th century. The only thing I find it as truly negative aspect is the randomness of the market because if you put 1 or 2 blank token on the market it’s gonna dead area and nobody wants to build near it. Īnyway I could go on and on how amazing this game but I don’t wanna turn it into another review I just wanna share my overall impression.

The fact you can replace opponent tiles with yours if the general supply is empty that’s friken genius and makes a lot of sense ,the ppl need iron or coals but it’s very expansive kill the old factory and bring us the new ones.Īnd another interesting desgin that the game advice you not to spent a lot of money so you could be the 1st player on your next only when you going for the big kill. I feel like 4p game would take ages but it’s gonna be whole lot different than 2 or even 3p for just one single rule. In 2p game I feel like the game of chess where you trying to understand when your opponent going to make the big sell combo (in which you need beer to consume in order to sell a lot of factories ),but it took us 3 hours just to finish the game and tbh we were exhausted from processing and trying to do stuff that would not benefit the other player.

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It was an amazing experience building connections ,selling manufacturers,consume iron/coals etc ,there is just a lot of stuff to do and you don’t even know how to begin ,but as you cruise along with canals or trains the picture of your objective is becoming more clear “oh yes I know what I need to do to win”. I played it with my friend who is big fan of wild lands designed by the same guy MW,thrilled to play BB but he knew before hand it’s gonna be a lot heavier. TL DR : it’s an amazing game but setup takes awhile along with the rules getting time to fully understand.