Luiz Hemerly

ok, so i started playing with Coritiba, a brazilian second division team.
I like to play a 3-6-1(3-2-2-2-1) in every soccer game i play so i did that tactic for my team. Bought one strong header to be my target man and some skilled players for my 2 AMCs. Bought a great Midfielder too that became my cap(20 influence, 34 years).
I started the league very well winning almost everygame(Im superior to almost all teams in the league, being matched only by a few) and drawing some, the team is playing nicely and I and every1 is happy with it. I even manage to win against a far superior team on the cup after a great team talk.
But when I reach mid season...
My starts to have problems. My target man had 15 (!!!) hours without scoring, my team shoots like 20-30 times a game and dont score(or score one time) and sometimes they just play awfull and lose by 3-0, 5-1... but in the next game they get a 2-0. seems absurdly random since Im not changing my tactics. The team simple dont play some matches, even when its against a ridiculous bad team. I cant understand, i love this game but it needs to be more clear about what is happening... I have watched some matches and can say that one big problem is that my AMCs and my PL just dont enter in the area, even when they have huge room to do so. They just keep shooting from outside even with long shots on rarely and creativity 5. But besides that, in that "specials" games, they seem to miss every pass, lose every tackle and miss every shot. While the other team seems to be playing like Brazil. Even when they suck at stats.

So can some1 tell me what is wrong??? I buy the suitable players for the positions, make a tactic that work for half season and sudenlly everything goes badly with no apparent reason! How should I react about that? The game isnt telling me anything about what is going on. Actually my players are getting 6-7 even on the game I lost 5-1( I was the favorite).
Thats my third try on this game and Im almost droping it since I cant understand whats is going on.
I have heard all the posts on the tactics forum and still cant solve my problem. Its really anoying to lose without aprent reason.

If some1 can help me and show me that im just stupid I will be very happy, because im starting to believe that the game is really buggy as a lot of ppl are posting here

deadeyedunc

Same happened to me, easy solution is to use a default tactic for a couple of games and then switch back to the original tactic again. I just couldn't stop my poor run by trying to tweak my tactic and I agree that it's really annoying.

andyinuk

could be many reasons. You can try giving some of your players a break from training to refresh.

littlebeagle

I've been using the same tactic for 5 seasons and I've not had this so called tactic cracking. I've gained promotions from 2 divisions in that time.

Themistofelis

I have not experience any "tactical cracking" since fm06 and even in this one it only happened after 2 years.
Something is wrong with the team talks, morale etc and i am almost sure that it has nothing to do with AI cracking you.

Luiz Hemerly

yep, I realized that themistofelis.
It seems that the team talk plays a HUGE role in game. I mean, you can play real madrid vs. NAC breda and NAC breda plays like Brazil because of a team talk. It is, a good thing in some ways. I mean this happens and of course its great to win games that you cant sometimes by encouraging your team, but I think you have few options for team talk and it is not well explained. I mean, for a thing that plays such a HUGE role in your players ratings you should have more info about it. I will make a experience when i have the time. When I find "THE" Team Talk that makes my team plays like Brazil I will load the game and play the same game with poor players and **** tactics and see what happens

PaulC

"Tactics cracking" is a myth. Its not in the game.

The two most likely reasons for a downturn in form are:

- A drop in morale or happiness
- People over-fiddling with tactics, when trying to reverse an initial slide

IMHO.

bcm

So, you are saying we should stick with the same formation-tactic, event if we lose a couple of matches?

andyinuk

So, you are saying we should stick with the same formation-tactic, event if we lose a couple of matches? </BLOCKQUOTE>

that depends i think. if i lost a few games on a roll i will start to look at why i lost those games rather than just change the tactics straight away. Because i only believe there is a need to change of tactics if there is a pattern in my losing games. if they are long range fluke goals there is nothing i could do. if i lost because of dubious decision there is nothing i could do either. but if it's because of my defender not picking up the attackers, then maybe there is something i should change in my tactics. maybe i will play a faster defender, or pull the DL back so they are not so close to the attackers etc.

If you lose a couple of games because of fluke goals, i wouldn't bother to change too much.

PaulC

So, you are saying we should stick with the same formation-tactic, event if we lose a couple of matches? </BLOCKQUOTE>

Just dont do anything rash or hasty. You could win 10, lose 2 and think you need to change tactics. Perhaps you dont and the next 5 games could be wins.

If its worked before, then it can work again!