[[FM17] Football, fire and ice: The inside story of Iceland's remarkable rise.]

On 10/18/2016 at 20:56, Jimbokav1971 said:

I have had a look at the FM16 HK squad and it was pleasing that although all were Icelandic, we did have a single solitary 2nd Nationality. (I love a 2nd Nationality for some reason, possibly because I am English but to Irish and Scottish parents). That the 2nd Nationality was Nepalese, (yes really), is just a bonus, because I have never seen a single Nepalese FM player ever never mind about had one in my squad. I hope he's still in the FM17 squad. 

Hahaha, this brought me back to a challenge I started this summer based on my annoyance with the Pokemon GO game!

The challenge was to catch players of each nationality by fielding them in a competitive game for at least 45 minutes and in the end "catch them all". One of my best "catches" early in the challenge was a young Belgian/Nepalese striker who was for me the first Nepalese I ever saw in the game.

I regretfully lost interest in the game after a couple of seasons and some 45 nationalities "caught", as success was hard to come by with such an irrational player selection policy. I finally lost the save file as I didn't bother to migrate it when I bought a new LT. Shame I never got round to writing an update about it on these pages...

Anyway, you have an attentive reader in me and I'll try to catch up with this thread in the coming days...

[Quickfire Questions and Answers Thread (Tactic and Training Questions Only)]

It took me 3 years to get from Lega Pro to Serie A using always the same 4-4-2 tactic on FM15. Now that I am in the top league, I get asked the "XX know how you are going to play, ..."-question every pre-match conference.

Now I'm wondering whether this is the game's way of saying that my tactic has been "cracked" and that I should change up?

We're really struggling after 12 games, but I hadn't expected anything else with a squad that's average Serie B quality at most. I once played a 3-5-2 away to Napoli though and promptly won 1-4. They still outshot us 35-11, so I consider this one more luck than tactical cunning. I've built my squad for 4-4-2 and can't really switch tactics at the moment, but if that formation is compromised, I guess there's nothing else to do...

Any thoughts?