Your experience with tactics

[Medo zalata]

What are your tactics when you play attacking, normal, and defensive formations and why did you choose them??

For example, when I play attacking formations I use short passes to prevent CA, high press to increase attacking opportunities, offside traps as I noticed it worked a lot, zonal marking as not many defensive player will be there to use man marking. And so on
Show us your tactics and when and why do you use them

[El Pistolero]

Sorry but nobody with a successful tactic is going to share it. Not unless they want people to figure out a counter for it.

I won 2 trebles in a row but this season I've lost 4 games yet only dropped 2 points last season. I'm starting to think it's not as affective anymore.

Also, I gave my tactics to a friend and it didn't work for him so what worked for me might not work for you.

[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.

[ElPocho]

There is no successful tactic 100% ,there is good team and suitable/reasonable tactic for that team quality, but mostly against stronger teams than me i always play defending and it worked well for me so far ,and vs weaker teams i play attacking mostly with the same formation ,it works like 80 % i could never win 100 % in all competitions, i did it once in season 2 but that was season two,after season 20 it's complicated .

[El Pistolero]

99%

[ElPocho]

99%

i'm guessing you have 100 % world class team 11 players ? maybe even 2-3 starts more than world class

[El Pistolero]

Nope. Mostly just turned scouts or 5* with 1 almost world class player. Most have special abilities but they're players I collected over the months who actually perform well. I don't buy tokens either.

[ElPocho]

Nope. Mostly just turned scouts or 5* with 1 almost world class player. Most have special abilities but they're players I collected over the months who actually perform well. I don't buy tokens either.

Well Bravo then, Good job .Coz you know if all the team is world class since day 1 you don't have to make a perfect tactics to win most of the time their level is good enough to win ,not always but most of the time

[El Pistolero]

Well Bravo then, Good job .Coz you know if all the team is world class since day 1 you don't have to make a perfect tactics to win most of the time their level is good enough to win ,not always but most of the time

Thank you, I had the Luxery of beating a few scout teams myself. I was active everyday, made sure every player had full bonus, condition and morale. I got bored this season so I've slipped a bit.


As for a counter, if memory serves me right, 3-5-2v style is a counter. An old classic counter for it would be 4-5-1v style if your opponent is a lot stronger.

[ElPocho]

Thank you, I had the Luxery of beating a few scout teams myself. I was active everyday, made sure every player had full bonus, condition and morale. I got bored this season so I've slipped a bit.


As for a counter, if memory serves me right, 3-5-2v style is a counter. An old classic counter for it would be 4-5-1v style if your opponent is a lot stronger.

and what about the 3 defenders , are they dc dc dc or dr dc dl ?