retired_amberrose31

I'm not a gambling man Zadok so the odds system is a little obtuse for me. I'm trying to work out a formula for choosing your tactic set based on reputation differences, e.g. if it's less than a thousand stay with your base tactic, if it's greater than 1000 go one more defensive and so on.

I took over an ailing HSV as an experiment. They were in disarray at the bottom of the bundesliga in 18th place, with these tactics I took them on a 4 game winning streak and we went shooting up the table. Didn't coninue the game though as I missed Feyenoord too much - went back to my previous save game. Amazing how this game can make you become sentimental about a bunch of statistics!

The real key is finding your base tactics once you've put the work into setting them up. After that it's just a matter of judging how much more attacking or defensive to go against different opponents.

Even if I could read the odds system I wouldn't trust it as being reliable. Unless of course some brainiac could come up with a formula for it? I'm laying down the gauntlet.

retired_amberrose31

I can't believe I left this out of my original post but it's crucial to the counter-attacking nature of these tactics.

N.B. Always leave the Counter-Attack box ticked

It doesn't matter whether you're playing home or away, make sure it's ticked on all 14 of your tactic sets. Like wwfan said, it simply means your team is more effective and economical with the ball.

retired_amberrose31

Something else I also left out of the original post but needs to be addressed, (don't seem to be able to edit my posts.. ), but it's important to drop the forward arrows on your full backs when using away tactics. Like I mentioned earlier I've set up my 5 most attacking sets as being 'home tactics' while the rest are set up as 'away tactics', meaning no f-arrowed full backs, tight marking outfield ,etc. . This is also important when countering the opposition's 4-2-4 formation, you want your back four playing as a unit, man-marking their front players and closing down to the same degree.

retired_adriana6

Played one game so far after setting all the tactics up, beat West Brom 8-1!!!

Never seen anything like it

retired_skyler900

i no i am going o sound like a complete uttter lazy ******** but honestly im not well any way there isnt a chance you could upload is there please mate

retired_amberrose31

There's a mistake in my first post concerning setting up your team's tempo, width and passing. Since these three areas are mirrored to the defensive line (17 in the 14-20 set), passing, tempo, width and time wasting should actually be set to 4 in your most attacking set. This is because you read the sliders with 1 being the lowest notch and 20 being the highest, so mirroring 17 (3 clicks from the top of the slider), we arrive at 4 down the other end, (3 clicks from the bottom of the slider). Please bear this in mind when setting up tactics. I always count clicks on the mouse since there are no numerical marks on the sliders themselves.

Glad to hear that they're working for you Swash. It won't always be that easy. Particularly when smaller clubs park the bus in front of the goal (usually with the 5-4-1 formation), so it pays to have your set-pieces set up correctly. I've had a lot of games recently where I have limited the other team to one or two shots on goal in the entire match but had to rely on a dead ball speacialist to make sure of the three points. Royston Drenthe is a bit of a Beckham like figure for my current Feyenoord team.

retired_anoited123

Although I haven't implemented everything Googen, I have used some of the ideas, and I am very impressed with the way you have researched and presented your findings!

well done KUTGW!

retired_amberrose31

They won't be completely effective unless you implement all the details - and I havent even gone into setting up set-piece instructions for every one of your tactics (you have to duplicate them 13 times unfortunately). Don't mean to sound like a school teacher. My only worry is that these tactics will get forgotten about in a swamp of quick fix, one-size fits all 'super-tactics'. A lot of work goes into setting them all up , granted, and that's not going to suit your garden variety fm manager but I've never had the success I'm currently enjoying with other downloadable tactics on these forums.

RollerGirl

I implemented this tactic yesterday and now after playing half a season with Inter i can say it sure does work Not that Inter is the most difficult team to manage but its the way this tactic(s) perform, dominating and winning almost every game comfortable.
But it can go wrong, after 9 wins in a row i got beaten 4-0 away to Fiorentina, had som players injured but im sure i picked the wrong tactic.

I will keep on testing and tewak i little.
Its important to set up your set-piece instructions to have great success.

retired_janellewood86

Good for you. If people don't want to put the effort in and learn how it all works then that's their loss.

By the way, if you set up the first tactic with all the set pieces set, then you can just modify this "base" tactic and it'll save you having to do it on all of them.

That's what I always do when creating a tactic "set".