Guys, most of you are making a very stupid mistake, when trying the tatic. Also you are bashing this tactic thanks to that.
Don't judge a tactic without havinga perfect tactic familiarity, most of you are in midle season, just change the tactic and expect that players perform at the best, like they had lot of games with that tactic. That's why in pre-season doing a lot of friendlies matches is very important, also you can boost your moral.
What i normally do is putting the tactic in the third slot and change the match preparations to tactics, unless i have a dificult match. Also i try to use the tactic in easy games.
I always follow everything that OP says, normally the only thing i don't have are the ppm.
Also when you buy and sell alot of players the tactic familiarity goes down and the team cohesion... you need both of this pretty high to your team perform at best. Normally this is the main reason that teams decrease alot in performance from one season to another, changing alot of your main players can be a dangerous move if you don't play alot of friendlies to boost tactic familiarity and team cohesion.
I did alot of test with previous tactics and Vortex was way better than Supernova, i don't tried yet Volcano... also i'm waiting for TFF complete his post, because i had the feeling that Volcano is without man marking and there is one with man marking.