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Can anyone give me some advice about tweaking tactics to suit your team. What exactly does this mean? is it a simple case of picking your strongest 11 and then changing the player instructions depending on the players stats? Any help would be very grateful. Thanks
it means tweaking tactics from game to game so it makes it harder for other team becuase they scout you and devise plans for your players and eventually your game plan gets undone so tweaking it from game to game will suprise your opponent so they have to adjust, and by the time they've adjusted your tweak might of already worked: you scored
what do you tweak though? Playing as liverpool i dont see why i would alter anything with my DCs or GK apart from the defensive line (once it suits my players of course).
also would you alter mentality of any players apart from fullbacks?
i guess you can always chage through ball, crosses, LS, FW, and RWB. Leaving only closing down and passing for individuals
and i guess you should be tinkering with the passing, tempo, width, time waisting and d-line, play offside and counter att team instructions constantly.
Tweak is a horrible word that has recently been banded around these forums quite liberally without many people knowing what it means. I don't even know what people mean most of the time, but I'll try and throw up a suggestion for some sort of rough translation.
Tweaking is altering a tactic in slight ways to get the most from a certain situation or a certain player. For instance, when you take the lead you may want to stop your full backs from running forward. Or maybe when you need to attack you might want to play a wider width or with a higher mentality. These don't fundamentally change your tactics or your formation but are an attempt to try something slightly different.
If you have your team set up well, the "tweaks" can be as simple as a couple of notches one way or the other on a couple of sliders. For some players, it may involve making one man a target man, or using a different play maker.
Anything more than these little changes, and certainly a formation change would mean the creation of a new tactic and should be treated as such.
Also, if you find you are regularly making the same changes and having success, it may be worth saving these changes as different .tac files so you have a quick reference as to what your team needs.
Now, which tweaks do you have to make and when? Well, there's the biggest mystery of them all!
Originally posted by ROO123:
so all this talk about tactics being exploited in the 2 or 3rd season can be avioded by constantly makeing these minor changes?
Yep. And in most cases it's not that tactics are being exploited per se it's that the opposition is just playing differently. It knows which of your players to mark tighter etc. sure, but really it's the difference between attacking you or not attacking you.
So, your wide formation that worked in season one is countered by the opposition playing a narrow game through your middle. Well, if you play a narrower formation they can't do that any more and you should capitalise. Or maybe your excellent counter-attacking game doesn't work because the opposition don't attack you any more. Playing a more patient game should counter that.
Minor changes to circumstances will help no end. I'd check out Cleon's thread on the subject for more discussion.
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