A quick question, hopefully! Some background:
So I have been a player of CM and FM in it's various incarnations pretty much since CM1 although I haven't really played much in the last few years apart from the odd dabble with little success. The last time I really played properly was around the time of FM05 and 06. Back then, I had an excellent tactic that won me everything for pretty much 20 odd years solid. The key to keeping the run going was to tweak the tactic every 6 months or so.
This basically involved setting the mentality of the two fullbacks and the DM to alternate between Normal or Defensive and to switch counter attack on or off. What I assume was happening was that the AI realised the tac had changed and thought it was a new tactic so set about cracking it again. And then in 6 months time I would change it back and so on and so forth.
Obviously, the match engine in FM2011 has undergone something of a paradigm shift in the intervening 6 years or so. I seem to remember comment from SI that they wanted a greater variety of tactics to be able to succeed rather than one single 'uber' formation. So the question is, is it necessary to tweak tactics as it used to be or can I stick with the same formation and tactic ad infinitum (providing it works of course)?
So I have been a player of CM and FM in it's various incarnations pretty much since CM1 although I haven't really played much in the last few years apart from the odd dabble with little success. The last time I really played properly was around the time of FM05 and 06. Back then, I had an excellent tactic that won me everything for pretty much 20 odd years solid. The key to keeping the run going was to tweak the tactic every 6 months or so.
This basically involved setting the mentality of the two fullbacks and the DM to alternate between Normal or Defensive and to switch counter attack on or off. What I assume was happening was that the AI realised the tac had changed and thought it was a new tactic so set about cracking it again. And then in 6 months time I would change it back and so on and so forth.
Obviously, the match engine in FM2011 has undergone something of a paradigm shift in the intervening 6 years or so. I seem to remember comment from SI that they wanted a greater variety of tactics to be able to succeed rather than one single 'uber' formation. So the question is, is it necessary to tweak tactics as it used to be or can I stick with the same formation and tactic ad infinitum (providing it works of course)?