Recent content by laffles

I am an avid FM fan, I've owned all the Football Manager games and a good portion of the Championship Manager series. This year I have been struggling to really get engrossed in a game, rarely going past the 3rd season (on FM11 I had a 37 season career, I averaged about 20) but this year the...

Just going to point out, this was written by WWFAN over at the SI Forums, but I felt it could be of great help to many a person on here. It certainly helped me. I take no credit, just spreading this guy's simple yet amazingly helpful guide :D Before reading: There are many ways in which we...

This years Football Manager has had me greatly frustrated. However I had my team playing I would concede a bucket-load of goals and also struggle to score (I could have masses of possession, shots, CCC's, but it wouldn't matter) So I decided to make a tactic that would stop that. If your...

First, I'll give you an overview of all the attributes in Football Manager. TechnicalCorners: This refers to a player's ability to be able to take a corner kick. Crossing: This refers to a player's ability to whip in the ball into the penalty area from the wide areas of the pitch. Dribbling...

Right, I've got a bunch of article ideas to help you folks on here create your own tactics and stuff. Here's a list of a few -Creating an effective attacking system -Creating an effective defensive system -Tactical Synergy -Set Pieces -Using shouts to your advantage Comment me with the ones...

Well, I'm back FMBase! I believe this is my first FM13 post, that's mainly due to laziness and the fact I've not really had any inspiration for tactics/articles until recently. I've been reading an unofficial Chelsea FC biography (well worth a read) and the chapters about Jose Mourinho's...

Any of you who have looked at my 4-2-3-1 Thread will realise that I haven't been posting on here on such a regular basis as last year, well here's the reason. It's a return to my project from last year where I recreated the way legendary players played in the FM11 ME. Well, Im doing it again...

As a huge Chelsea fan I found myself madly flailing out of pure joy at our Champions League win. This inspired me to attempt to recreate Di Matteo's counter attacking style. I had to alter the formation slightly to create the 2 banks of 4 defensive style which reduces the opposition to alot of...

Space is the greatest asset in football, so creating it inevitably helps your cause in winning a game. This was the thought behind this tactic, combined with Barcelona's theory of defend while you attack by keeping possession, and its been quite extreme in its results. I am testing this with...

Right, recently I've found some people struggling with an Error Message Number 41 that causes the game to freeze and go Black after the loading screens when you boot the game. Didn't think much of it but then it happened to me....Well, I'm rather good with Computers and fixed it through fair...

Well, yeah. I'm back, I know you all missed me. This is my new tactic and (as the name suggests) is a 4-3-1-2 Tactic. To get all the niggly things people will criticise me on out of the way. Its been tested for 7 games with Chelsea. It's the first AND ONLY tactic I've made for FM12, mainly...

Hey, Laffles here. Just thought I'd drum up some interest about my new tactic that I'm working on. Its a 3 Tactic set, one for Attack, one as Standard and one Defensive one. Its a modified 4-3-3 (4-5-1, 4-1-2-2-1) based around Strict Short Passing with A decent Press that looks to retain...

There are LOADS of players on Football Manager that are better suited to a different role on the pitch, be that due to attributes, PPM's, or general effectiveness. Just Because a Player is say a DEFENSIVE MIDFIELDER that doesn't mean he will be useless everywhere else. Lets take Efrain...

With Porto being my Second team I was truly delighted with the success of Andre Villas-Boas. Watching a team Attack and Press with such fluidity while never really looking suspect at the back was phenominal. As such I decided to create a tactic INSPIRED by Villas-Boas and Porto (This is not...

I'm currently working on an Andre Villas-Boas inspired 4-3-3 (4-5-1,4-1-2-2-1 however you see it) and I chose to play with 2 Inside forwards or 1 and a Left Winger. I ofcourse want to make this tactic as good as possible and have heard that Advanced playmakers are more effective on the wing than...