Hardest FM for tactics?

[Djibril Cisse]

Actually i feel tactics are easier this year, defence is improved, man managment (morale) is a little more difficult.

 

[bravo433]

It does seem to be getting much more difficult to defend each year which is good. Also you can easily lose the dressing room now leading to poor momentum and a very short tenure as manager. Again this is realistic.

I have found with each version by using Extended Highlights and watching games closely I eventually find an all conquering tactic. It takes longer every year.

 

[rvallant]

haha you know mate, the thing is, the tactics that work that people post on this forum, wouldnt even work in real football.

its ridiculous, even trying to make a simple tactic, the players dont do what you say anything, it just random, FM is getting worst every year since 11

That is what ****** me off the most.

People slap on a 4-2-3-1 with no midfield (Ball winning mids who don't sit), two IF's, an AP, an AF, and 2x wingbacks, all of them on attack duties. And they win everything 5-0 and have fun and enjoy the game.

Here's me doing a 4-1-4-1 or a 4-2-3-1 with sitting midfielders, like an ACTUAL realistic tactic, and ****** Conference teams will just dominate the midfield and batter me 3-0 when I play as Barcelona/United/Chelsea.

That's what aggravates me the most. The game seems to just punish you for doing a sensible thing.

 

[ChivuStoica]

I actually found FM15 to be harder than this year's version as far as tactics go, but that might be because the team I use was one of the weakest teams in the First League last year and got relegated IRL so now we're one of the best teams in the Second League.

 

[bravo433]

I actually found FM15 to be harder than this year's version as far as tactics go, but that might be because the team I use was one of the weakest teams in the First League last year and got relegated IRL so now we're one of the best teams in the Second League.

I actually have managed to crack my 4-3-3 narrow tactics and break the game on previous versions when managing lower level teams and getting promoted. When you go a big team the players' quality can win you games with bad/average tactics. When you are one of the worst team in the league your bad tactical roles and instructions get exposed a lot more so you can see where you are going wrong more easily.

My Madrid Beta tactics gave me undefeated seasons. I moved to lowly AC Milan and the same tactics were a complete disaster.