Your experience with tactics

[Tactician]

I'm starting to think it's not as affective anymore.

This is one of the traps in this game. This is what the game wants to make you to believe. It might well be a business ploy to make the user spend more. I had such impressions too; this was last year (2015), when I started to feel that certain tactics did not seem to effective any more. What probably happened in many of those cases, especially where you were the stronger team, are as follows.

(1) the opponent used a proper counter set of tactics
(2) the game gave significant hidden advantages to the opponent
(3) a combination of (1) and (2)

For number (2), some users might say it is due to the 'roll of the dice', but I think there is more than that influencing the outcomes of matches in this game. For sure I tell you that there are fishy things going from behind. These fishy things have probably been programmed to happen.

Take into consideration that whatever you see on the pitch or in the comments, is made to occur to by game itself. You have limited control of it, and you cannot fully trust in what the game showed you as supposedly happening during a match. The same applies for the match statistics, ratings and so on. In other words, the game can easily 'fool' the users. Many things are illusions.

Also, I observed many switches appearing to be random switches rather than being logic switches.

The bottom line: this game might be far from what you might expect from a proper football management simulation game. An appropriate football management simulation game, simple or not, should be based on football management as it is, the outcomes of matches should be mainly be affected by tactics and quality, with random effects contributing relatively little to the outcomes, and for sure there should be no 'fishy', hidden effects that are probably business strategies or ploys. I am sure if what I strongly suspect to be the real 'face' of this game is the case, and is showed to all the users, many users, especially those that spent a lot of money and/or time on it, will be angry and will start manifestations against Nordeus. This game, as I have said before a lot of times, most likely functions a lot like a casino game, and maybe even worst. I have not used the term 'casino' because of the randomness that may be in this game, but because of how it has been programmed to make things happen, mostly based on business point of views.

P.S: this thread was about sharing tactics experience; I shared on how this game it is itself based on a lot of observations.