Recent content by riotfire

Aberdeen won it 4 years on the bounce on one of my saves. Granted it was like 2022 or whatever, but still made me smile to see their meteoric rise. What's funnier still is that Frank Lampard was their manager. Foreshadowing? XD

Individual training is all set according to the screenshot in OP. Good shout on the PPM though, I shall try that and see what happens! Fortunately, wingers and AP are scoring so many, it doesn't matter too much. Just would be interesting to see how dominant it would be if I had a free scoring...

Trying this out with Man Utd. Not one of my favourite clubs, but wanted to manage team I had never played with before. Things are going well, top of the league, scoring goals - particularly from midfield and the football is breathtaking to watch at times. # The only slight issue is that my...

I'm trying this out with Ajax. I'm unbeaten in the league, but in Europe I'm struggling to keep clean sheets and hold on to leads. Played 3 games in the CL so far and have drawn them all. I've also noticed that I struggle to create clear cut chances, even with the match prep set to attacking...

Most likely it's because the AI has worked out how to play against you. Try changing it up a little bit. Experiment with tempo and defensive line. It's always good to have a second tactic that you can use occasionally to try and stop the match engine from figuring out your style of play.

Just started a save with Crystal Palace. Downloaded an update so that they are in the Premier League. I've played a few pre-season games and it looks decent so far. I'm not expected to pull up any trees this season, only had a 4mil budget and small wage budget too. I've made a few additions...

I have a 2.2ghz dual core processor and it tells me my estimated game speed is half a star. The thing is though the game still runs perfectly, even if I load a large database with 4 or 5 leagues.

I personally don't like using OI or shouts, and I've had great results just leaving everything as it is. The only time I would use shouts is if I'm losing or desperately need a goal, then I just set them to pump ball into box, get ball forward, set the mentality to overload and push the wingers...

I'm using this tactic with my FC Copenhagen team, and it's probably the best one I've used on FM '13 as far as consistency goes. Very solid at the back, won the league by over 25 points and only conceded 10 goals all season. Got to the Quarter Finals of the Europa League, which is quite an...

Doing alright so far with Dortmund. Had a couple of strange results, and struggling to keep clean sheets, but plenty of goals coming from midfield and from set pieces. Lewandowski isn't scoring much at all though, and I'm having to rely on Gotze to get me goals. Seems solid enough though. I...

Will give this a go with Dortmund, second season. The 4-2-3-1 I've been using has suddenly lost effectiveness, so will switch to this one next season and see how things go.

I've tried this one out with a few different teams, and I just can't get it to work at all. Going forward, it's pretty good. Always create a lot of chances, but if my strikers have a bad game, I end up losing, sometimes heavily. The defense looks weak, and I concede far too many goals when teams...

To defend a lead I normally switch the mentality to contain, then use the pass to feet and retain possesion shouts. Works well for me. If I need a goal, I raise the tempo to quick, and if it's there's less than 10 mins left, set the mentality to overload. I've scored so many late equalisers and...

Yep same match prep, and I apply the shouts from the start as my team seem to play a lot better with them.

Trying it out with Millwall and so far, so good. Bear in mind this is a team with barely any money to spend, average at best players at Championship level and a predicted finish of 20th place. This seems to be working like a charm, very solid defensively both home and away. I should be able to...