I first posted this over at the si forums under my other username (bigdaddydave) and got little feedback, presumably becuase the thread was not called "super duper win everything and score loads of goals tactic" or some other overstated **** that gets attention, anyway I though i'd share it here as i've borrowed several tactics from here in the past. It has evovled to into the Razor C tactic which is a plug and play tactic
The Story.
After mixed results using other peoples tactics i decided to put something together for my own long term game, I am Hull City with a new chairman promising lots of money but expecting european qualification, the season is 2017/18. The previous season with my new chairman I spent big and only placed 7th narrowly missing out on euro qualification, my team appeared solid to me however performances were inconsisten, in my opinion tactics were to blame. Most of the downloaded tactics i'd used scored plenty of goals, but were leaky in defence, the few i tried that defended well seemed to struggle to keep possesion and result in lots of drawn games. I analysed these tactics, looking at the player roles and team instructions, some things stood out as needing to be kept such as the poacher/trequartists combination which i learnt early on with the game, otheres needed to be dumped, such as defensive full backs, for some reason defensive tactics seemed to work best with full backs set in the wing back role. Common team instructions seemed to be short passing and pressing so they were in
Like many successful tactics posted i took the 4-2-4 formation as my base, i used the inside forward/winger combination for the wide players which i had success with from minimal fuss, the result was the Razor A formation which at least for my team seems a good plug and play formation, but i need to be better against the top teams and in tight matches such as cup games this is where my two tactic system comes into play best. I dropped the trequartista forward back into central midfield and made him an advanced playmaker, i tweaked the team instructions to be a little more defensive and focus on counter attacking, and Razor B was born.
I took over match preparation plugged both tactics in, setting the focus to be on defensive positioning, I only signed two first team players, Marek Hamsik for 13.75m and in the transfer window i got Theo Walcott for 3.5m to act as cover.
The result is below
7th Place to 2nd place missing out on the title by goal difference, to a pretty dominant Man Utd Side, I was the second highest scorers and the second best defensively, I lost the least games out of all the teams and to be honest, on another season 84 points may well have won the title for me. I also won the FA Cup and Manager of the Year
I want to share this system to see how others do, whilst i continue my career game and try to win more with Hull and my new found millions.
Here is how to use the Tactic.
Make sure you have both in the match preparation area and set the focus to defensive movement.
NEVER USE OI, make sure your assistant is not setting it for you either, performing OI seems to take the focus off the players performing their role and often leads to the formation becoming unbalanced.
Use the 4-2-4 Razor A as your base, you could use it all season long if you wanted but sometimes i like to be cautious.
If you are underdogs Use Razor B to start the game, the rule here is to change to Razor A if you are losing or Drawing at half time and bring on the extra striker, The change of formation usually unsettles the opposition and leads to a goal being scored.
I started all my FA Cup games with Razor B and managed to lift the trophy using this method.
Try it out and see what you think.
Razor A http://www.sendspace.com/file/zgufzx
Razor B http://www.sendspace.com/file/15ood5
UPDATE
Razor C, the stand alone plug and play version of this tactic is ready, no need now to switch tactics, this one works better when you are underdogs although it still wont guarantee you always beat the better team it will make you harder to beat and will often result in stealing draws or sneaky wins
Razor C http://www.sendspace.com/file/68wppqhttp://www.sendspace.com/file/dq9i26
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Here are the results of a quick 10 games test with Aberdeen, Media Prediction is 7th, no signings made and we had no natural wingers either, if i had brought these in results would presumably have been even better, still i'm happy so far.
The Story.
After mixed results using other peoples tactics i decided to put something together for my own long term game, I am Hull City with a new chairman promising lots of money but expecting european qualification, the season is 2017/18. The previous season with my new chairman I spent big and only placed 7th narrowly missing out on euro qualification, my team appeared solid to me however performances were inconsisten, in my opinion tactics were to blame. Most of the downloaded tactics i'd used scored plenty of goals, but were leaky in defence, the few i tried that defended well seemed to struggle to keep possesion and result in lots of drawn games. I analysed these tactics, looking at the player roles and team instructions, some things stood out as needing to be kept such as the poacher/trequartists combination which i learnt early on with the game, otheres needed to be dumped, such as defensive full backs, for some reason defensive tactics seemed to work best with full backs set in the wing back role. Common team instructions seemed to be short passing and pressing so they were in
Like many successful tactics posted i took the 4-2-4 formation as my base, i used the inside forward/winger combination for the wide players which i had success with from minimal fuss, the result was the Razor A formation which at least for my team seems a good plug and play formation, but i need to be better against the top teams and in tight matches such as cup games this is where my two tactic system comes into play best. I dropped the trequartista forward back into central midfield and made him an advanced playmaker, i tweaked the team instructions to be a little more defensive and focus on counter attacking, and Razor B was born.
I took over match preparation plugged both tactics in, setting the focus to be on defensive positioning, I only signed two first team players, Marek Hamsik for 13.75m and in the transfer window i got Theo Walcott for 3.5m to act as cover.
The result is below
7th Place to 2nd place missing out on the title by goal difference, to a pretty dominant Man Utd Side, I was the second highest scorers and the second best defensively, I lost the least games out of all the teams and to be honest, on another season 84 points may well have won the title for me. I also won the FA Cup and Manager of the Year
I want to share this system to see how others do, whilst i continue my career game and try to win more with Hull and my new found millions.
Here is how to use the Tactic.
Make sure you have both in the match preparation area and set the focus to defensive movement.
NEVER USE OI, make sure your assistant is not setting it for you either, performing OI seems to take the focus off the players performing their role and often leads to the formation becoming unbalanced.
Use the 4-2-4 Razor A as your base, you could use it all season long if you wanted but sometimes i like to be cautious.
If you are underdogs Use Razor B to start the game, the rule here is to change to Razor A if you are losing or Drawing at half time and bring on the extra striker, The change of formation usually unsettles the opposition and leads to a goal being scored.
I started all my FA Cup games with Razor B and managed to lift the trophy using this method.
Try it out and see what you think.
Razor A http://www.sendspace.com/file/zgufzx
Razor B http://www.sendspace.com/file/15ood5
UPDATE
Razor C, the stand alone plug and play version of this tactic is ready, no need now to switch tactics, this one works better when you are underdogs although it still wont guarantee you always beat the better team it will make you harder to beat and will often result in stealing draws or sneaky wins
Razor C http://www.sendspace.com/file/68wppqhttp://www.sendspace.com/file/dq9i26
---------- Post added at 01:51 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:50 AM ----------
Here are the results of a quick 10 games test with Aberdeen, Media Prediction is 7th, no signings made and we had no natural wingers either, if i had brought these in results would presumably have been even better, still i'm happy so far.
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