u/escapevelocity-25k

I was watching this ancient Tifo Football video on total football (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNMeMa2OuI0&t=163s) for inspiration on how to do total football in FM, and started playing around with Rate My Tactic (https://ratemytactic.web.app/en) to try to apply the principles. This is what I came up with. Rate My Tactic gives it 5 stars, and while I know the site is outdated on the specifics of the match engine I still think it's directionally useful.

Has anyone tried using a Libero in this way, or at all? Personally I've never used a libero so I'm very curious to hear from anyone who has.

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I love planting forests. Once I unlock Conservation, I plant forests across most of my empire. Secretly I'm hoping for forest fires to sweep across my land and give me those glorious food/production yields we've all seen posts about.

I've attached an image from a recent game where a single tile in an AI's empire experienced what felt like 70% of all the forest fires on the map. This is a plains/hills/rainforest/banana tile, which should have 3 food and 2 production. It now has 13 food and 12 production. I assume the gold is coming from a governor.

This has led me to the conclusion that forest fires do not actually have an equal chance to occur on any woods/jungle on the map, but are actually assigned to certain areas with woods/jungle at the start of the game. So practically speaking forest fires are more likely in old-growth woods and jungles, and unlikely (or even impossible) in new-growth woods if woods were not initially present near that tile. Obviously they can spread to those tiles if new woods are present, but they probably won't start there.

Just submitting this for discussion because I could not find any information about it on the Wiki. It makes sense based on how the game determines natural disaster regions for other disasters like droughts or tornados, but I didn't see it explicitly called out anywhere.

One thing I can't confirm is whether the hypothetical "forest fire start" is a single tile or a region. I would guess that it's a 2-3 tile hex region, similar to droughts. This specific tile could be experiencing a ton of fires because it is the only woods/rainforest tile in a 9 tile radius, so all forest fires assigned to this region have to start in the same place.