Dafuge's Challenge - FM15
Hello all and welcome to my latest Manager Story where I'll be attempting a decade old Football Manager challenge that was created by Dafuge himself back in 2005, but don't worry I'll give you some background on the challenge in case you want to try it yourself!
The Aim:
The aim of the Dafuge Challenge is to take a small club who were previously unplayable in an unedited game from the Vanarama N/S to Premier League and Champions League glory.
(Effectively a team from below the Vanarama N/S)
The Rules:
Firstly you need to load a game with the English leagues only, with the Vanarama N/S selected. All of the boxed should be left unticked apart from 'do not add key staff' and 'prevent use of in-game editor'. It should end up looking like this:
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Just like previous years, the players for the newly playable clubs need to be added which can be done using a custom database. The players from the three feeder league have to be added, which can be done by changing the database size to 'Advanced' before selecting these options:
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This will add the players to the teams you have a chance of playing as.
After creating the game, add yourself as an unemployed manager but don't worry about the details, they are not important at all. Call your manager 'Holiday Man' or something along those lines.
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Go on holiday until 25th June 2015, this shouldn't take too long, perhaps about an hour. Turning off autosaving during this time will speed things up. Saving on 24th June 2014 may give you a better choice of teams by reloading the game then going on holiday for one day, I would strongly recommend trying this.
(I'm personally not going to be reloading my save, I'll just go with the flow)
Retire your 'Holiday Man' manager. His job is complete and he is no longer required.
Add a new manager, the personal details are completely up to you but I would expect people to use their own true nationalities and languages spoken. Coaching badges must be set to 'None', with past playing experience set as 'Sunday League Footballer'. The coaching attributes are completely up to you.
(This will be your proper manager profile for the duration of the save)
For example:
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You can assign the attributes for your manager in any way you please so long as you keep the Qualifications/Experience inside the rules set.
When adding a new manager, choose one of the new clubs promoted to the Vanarama North or South to manage. A quick way to check the new teams is to find the 'England Overview' team, then the 'season summary'. Just above the FA Cup summary you should find a list of six new teams.
Once you have selected one of the newly promoted teams it is now up to you to manage this club all the way to the Premier League title and UEFA Champions League crown.
You may not move clubs unless you are sacked, in which case you can either take over a newly promoted club that satisfies the original criteria (check the club's league history), or just start again.
No form of international management is not allowed, until you have completed the challenge.
Assigning parent clubs and loaning players is completely up to the player, although it should be noted that on occasions a parent club can lend players which will make the first season or two slightly less of a challenge. It is completely up to you how you play this one, but everyone knows real men don't use parent club loans. Personally, I like to assign a parent club for financial benefits but never take any players on loan from them.
To sign a player, you must be able to scout them, this doesn't mean you have to, just he must be accessible to your scouts. If you have a foreign player on a free transfer who is willing to come on trial, you do not need to be able to scout them, as long as you have them at the club on trial so you can get a coach report on him. If an agent offers you a player, you can sign him without scouting him.
No external utilities such as scouting programs should be used and the database should be unedited (with the exception of cosmetic changes which cannot be discussed here). Should SI release a data update, this would be allowed but any other data updates are not.
Just as always, no extra leagues can be loaded for the extent of the challenge. Once the challenge is completed, you have the freedom to do what you want.
Use of save game editors is strictly banned, whatever the reason. Ticking that box at the start should see to this.
With that all said and done I hope you will enjoy my attempt at the Dafuge Challenge and maybe give it a go yourself. I'd love to see some others post threads on their attempt!
Credit to Dafuge for the challenge, read his thread and view other peoples progress here:
http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php/400804-dafuge-s-FM15-challenge?
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