u/DyrrhachiumPharsalus

This seems to be a constant issue for the AI in endurance racing with a max 40% driving time rule. There is also usually at least one car per race that freaks out at the end and makes a bunch of pit stops switching drivers and losing time ending up with 11+ stops

This one is particularly egregious as the Navarro car was running 30 seconds in front with less than 15 minutes left in a 6-hour race and pulled off with soft tires that were definitely enough to end the race.

It's almost completely reliable that I can be running 15-30 seconds behind the leader or leaders in races after my last stop with about an hour to go and still win as long as my drivers don't explode and I don't screw up tire/fuel levels of the last shift

Granted I'm sieging the very last fief on the map not owned by my kingdom, but this is still the dumbest/ballsiest move I've seen

Only happened because I ran out of influence after recruiting a bunch of fiefless Vlandian clans. I just had to keep going on exterminating Vlandia until I gave all that territory away because they kept asking for Imperial and Asserai fiefs burning all my influence otherwise. Opened up a third front just deal with this issue

ETA: Just to clarify how much of an issue this Vlandia problem ended up bieng, while I was out of influence and dealing with them the Asserai and Western Empire each took three cities from me. Luckily since then, I've managed to wage a fierce naval campaign with only my clans parties. My navy captured a clan leader from both factions who were willing to flip and bring a city with them.

Four years ago England lost to the US on home soil in the semis. Now they find themselves in a battle with Scotland which will be argued over for ages. I have a couple of players on both sides of the matchup so am just a casual observer.

I obviously capitalized by signing the first team ready wonderkid with world class potential who can still become HGC.

We lost in the semis last year so should not have auto quali via that path. According to the quali table we should have played in the playoff this season so not sure what is going on. My only assumption is we get an exemption via being top rated team

He's requested to be transfer listed for his $150M release clause after I turned down Barca's previous offer. His technicals are obviously not great, but he mostly plays as a WBd or FBs and handles it well enough. I do have an HGC backup and a shorter 19yo RB/CB who can definitely use the minutes at RB for his development as CB is unlikely long term.

We are also completely reliant on UCL and transfers for funding that it's always very tempting to take these massive offers. Especially so I can reinvest some of the money into boosting the other teams in the Welsh league