Zambo vs The Home Nations Challenge
After a few long term games have recently lost their appeal to me, I've decided to come back and try my hand at another FM13 story, this time embracing my own little challenge. I've devised something called The Home Nations Challenge, which is loosely inspired by the 'Pentagon Challenge', but a whole lot more British!
I'm hoping this will become my new long term save file, and to be honest, the challenge looks (at this stage anyway) quite tricky and will most likely provide me with plenty of material to write with!
I'd like to just encourage everyone to post some feedback in this topic, good or bad it's all well received. There's nothing worse than putting effort in to a story and not getting any feedback at all.... I'd like to know people are reading what I've typed up!!
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The Home Nations Challenge
The Home Nations Challenge
The goal of this challenge is fairly simple, to manage one team from each of the 'home nation' countries and guide them to Champion's League success in a single save file.
The execution of this challenge will be more tricky, as you will have to rely on being so successful in some of the lesser known footballing nations (Wales, Rep of Ireland and Northern Ireland, for example) that you increase the status of their leagues high enough, or increase your bank balance astronomically to enable you to attract the right calibre of player to assist you in lifting the coveted Champion's League trophy.
The Rules
- You must load each of the five 'home nations' in your setup (England, Northern Ireland, Rep of Ireland, Scotland, and Wales).
- Each of the 'home nations' should be loaded and include the lowest divisions available. (England: Blue Square Bet South / North, Ireland: First Division, Northern Ireland: Second Division, Scotland: Third Division, Wales: Corbett Sports Welsh Prem)
- You can load any additional nations, to whatever depth you want to.
- You must start off unemployed, with the lowest possible reputation (Sunday League Footballer).
- You must begin your game in July.
- No database edits.
- No external tools or databases (FM Scout, etc).
For an additional challenge, you might want to try and adhere to some of the following rules, of course, these are all optional and you can ignore as many as you please.
- Use only players from the 'home nations'.
- Lead each of the 'home nation' national teams to World Cup glory.
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Results
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[TD]Athlone Town[/TD]
[TD]2012-2013[/TD]
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