Tactics for 08

Just thought id start a thread for people to put in what tactics they use ehich has brought them success and hopefully it will stop the forum from being filled up with loads of different tactics

Jambo Daves

http://community.sigames.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/4892031102/m/8122065763

A good sweeper tactic

http://community.sigames.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/4892031102/m/8792032763

bugels home away tactic

http://community.sigames.com/eve/forums?a=tpc&s=2101905...672017073#6672017073

My tactic with Man.Utd, this has won me the league 2 seasons in a row each time by 12= points.

formation 424

Team Instructions:

Attacking, Normal, Normal everything else no

player instructions

passing - all team

tackling - cm hard rest all team

pressing - all yes except keeper and defenders

pass to - stayed the same

set pieces - neither have changed

free role - yes to wingers no to rest

forward runs - yes to everyone except keeper and both DCs

run with ball - Yes to strikers and wingers no to rest

hold up ball - all no

long shots - yes to everyone except keeper and defenders

Through balls - yes to CMs no to rest

Cross ball - yes to wingers and DL,DR no to rest

Marking - keeper and strikers none, DL DR AML AMR zonal, rest man

this has produced these stats:

played - 134

won - 96 71.6%

drew - 21 15.7%

lost - 17 12.7%

scored 296 2.21 p/m

against 110 0.82p/m

titles - 2

cups - 1

points - 1381

Let me know what you think of it

Originally posted by ridley99:

My tactic with Man.Utd, this has won me the league 2 seasons in a row each time by 12= points.

formation 424

Team Instructions:

Attacking, Normal, Normal everything else no

player instructions

passing - all team

tackling - cm hard rest all team

pressing - all yes except keeper and defenders

pass to - stayed the same

set pieces - neither have changed

free role - yes to wingers no to rest

forward runs - yes to everyone except keeper and both DCs

run with ball - Yes to strikers and wingers no to rest

hold up ball - all no

long shots - yes to everyone except keeper and defenders

Through balls - yes to CMs no to rest

Cross ball - yes to wingers and DL,DR no to rest

Marking - keeper and strikers none, DL DR AML AMR zonal, rest man

this has produced these stats:

played - 134

won - 96 71.6%

drew - 21 15.7%

lost - 17 12.7%

scored 296 2.21 p/m

against 110 0.82p/m

titles - 2

cups - 1

points - 1381

Let me know what you think of it

good stats i may try this out

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the bugles home tatic isnt working for me so i would advise not to do the home tatic

Kieran94 are you serious that is all i stick to the away is rubbish, the home one is quality i was like not doing well in the premiership with chelsea and went to the home through out the rest of season and won the league and won league cup knocked out in qtr final champions league and semi final fa cup i would say go for the HOME tactic all the way...

to be honest since i started my new game i ditched the away tactic as the home formation creates far more goals. im glad it works for other people, i dont think iv finished a season with this tactic scoring under 100 goals

just to say that using my tactic ive won the league 3 seasons in a row 12+ points and im currently 10 points clear in my 4th season and its only december

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3-5-2.

Team Instructions

Emphasis-normal

Passing-short in summer/good weather.

direct in rain/ wind.

Tackling-hard

Pressing-yes

the rest no.

Player instructions

Tackling- 3 cm's hard rest team.

Pressing-all yes apart from defence

Free role-middle cm.

Forward runs-all midfielders, rest no

Run with ball- yes to ml, mr and middle cm. rest no

Long shots-3 cm's yes, rest no.

Cross ball-ml mr only

Marking-all man apart from middle cm and strikers who are none

this is similar ish to jambo dave's 3-5-2 but slightly modified.

This tactic got york into the prem with me with back to back titles.

don't worry about conceding goals, unless you have an amazing back 3 plus keeper, you tend to get a lot of 3-2 and 4-3 results.

good luck

jambodave 3-5-2 won me the PL with west ham first season

i then used it for Juve Stabia and got relegated :S

Can I just say, following two years of success with Man Utd winning the league both years plus all other cups, I then moved to thebugel home tactic (I didn't bother with the away one) and it has improved my team no end.

A couple of examples of player stats:

Wayne Rooney First season: P46, Goals 13, assists 6, 7.58 rating. Second season: P46, goals 22, assists 7, 7.54 rating.

Third season with thebugel home tactic: P39 (season not over), goals 23, assists 12, rating 8.48.

Paul Scholes first season: P22 (injured a lot), goals 5, assists 2, rating 6.90. Second season: P28, goals 7, assists 2, rating 6.82.

Third season with thebugel: P31, goals 10, assists 9, rating 7.16.

Brilliant, brilliant tactic.

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with a half decent striker my home tactic can give him 30-50 goals per season.

in my 1st season with leeds i loaned jon macken for the seaon and played him along side torre andre flo, macken got 52 and flo got 29. i always play with the away tactic , i now play with a am/sc (i.e tevez) on the left of attack and a sc on the right.this means when i swicth to my away tactic teves will drop back and play as a amc

i tested this tactic with crawley town (below average BSP team, starts with -6 points)

very poor start, took me 7 games to get out of minus points. all of a sudden the team clicked and i went on to finish 9th, winning the league the season after.

this tactic may not get you promoted/league champs in 1st season but with all teams me and my mates av tested it with its got a 90%+ pass rate season 2 onwards

Apologies everyone, have just realised now I got myself confused with my earlier post (which I can't edit).

It is Ridley's tactic (a very attacking 4-4-2) which has improved my player stats no end.

Apologies again for the confusion

Can't help it... always a 4-1-3-2. seems to work a treat for me! First season i won the league and the fa cup with the mighty tottenham - it's nice living my dreams through my psp!!! After that I came 2nd/1st..won the uefa cup, Chapions league and super cup. I always look for a good DMC who can score goals, amazingly Tom Huddlesone is doing a very good job there! My team is always lined up with attacking midfielders and the worring thing is I don't care at how many they assist I always look at how many they score.Giovani dos santos (who I got on a free in jan 08/09 along with theo walcott) is doing alright at the moment. so is Jermaine Jenas 47 games 26 goals!! Tottenham have a good attackng line up with Berbatov - who almost scores in every game, Darren Bent's ok. I sold robbie keane and defoe and brought in vagner love and bojan who i got for £875 as soon as i started! he's now worth £20 million! I got jo on a free but haven't yet played him but as i've read in past posts he seems to do alright!!!

Originally posted by bugle:

Apologies everyone, have just realised now I got myself confused with my earlier post (which I can't edit).

It is Ridley's tactic (a very attacking 4-4-2) which has improved my player stats no end.

Apologies again for the confusion

I use 424 not 442

Hence the reason I called it a very attacking 4-4-2 Ridley, they are listed as two MCs with AML and AMR, not two MCs and four SCs.

Anyway the point being it's a great tactic and has brought my players on in great leaps and bounds.

Thanks

glad someone has has succes with it, you look like the only person who has tried it

Tried your tactic Ridley and it only works if you start at a very good club. Jambo Dave's tactic works for every club. Has anyone managed to develop a defensive tactic so you can win 1-0 instead of 3-2? Prefer clean sheets to goals.

I'll give your tactic a shot ridley, just scribbled it down and will try it later when i get time.

good man abertie

Ridley i've completed my first season with liverpool using your tactic.

JUST won the premier league, chased it all season and somehow finished 2 points ahead of Chelsea!

Beaten in the Champions League final on penalties by Chelsea!

Knocked out of the League cup third round and FA cup fourth round.

A little inconsistent, either win or lose, not a draw in sight! beat Man Utd 3-0 at old trafford then stuffed by Blackburn 4-0!

I'll carry on and see how it pans out in a second season.

this is my coventry team any1 reccomened a dececnt tactic?

Gk:almunia

DL:celestine babyaro

DR:John heitinga

DC: Amorebieta

DC: Elliot Ward

ML: Zinho

MR: wilson palacios

MC: Derek Boetang

MC: Felipe

CF: MICHAEL MIFSUD

CF: Montella or Bojan

please help!!

Hello

Been trying out a tactic that I firts used on cm00-01.

It's a 21412.

---fc-fc---

----amc----

ml-mc-mc-mr

----dmc----

---dc-dc---

----gk----

Team instructions

Emphasis - Attacking

Passing - Short

Tackling - Normal

Pressing - Yes

Offside - No

Counter Attack - No

Men Behind Ball - No

Player instructions

Passing - all set to team

Tackling - all team except 2 mc's and amc set to hard

Pressing - all yes except gk, 2 dc's and dmc

Pass to and set pieces unchanged

Free role - all no except ml and mr

Forward runs - ml,mr and amc yes. rest no

Run with ball - ml,mr and amc yes,rest no

Hold up ball - all no

Long shots 2 mc's and amc yes, rest no

Thru balls - all no

Cross ball - all no

Marking - all man except dmc (zonal) and amc (zonal) gk none

Only tries it with Liverpool and here are stats:-

Played - 66

Won - 58 (87.9%)

Drew - 7 (10.6)

Lost - 1 (1.5%)

Scored - 186 (2.82 p/m)

Conceded - 41 (0.62 p/m)

League titles - 1 (Premiership)

Cups - 3 (FA,League and Champions League)

Players bought 12 (70m)

Players sold 3(7m)

Will try it with some other clubs to see how it goes.

Feel free to try it out and post back to tellme of any success.

i can confirm that bugels home tactic def works won everything in my first season quite easily

been using the bugle tactic, but i'm clearly doing something wrong.

i'm letting in LOADS of goals. it's around february time in my fist season, and i've scored about 60 (pretty impressive) but let in about 65 (diabolical).

i completely abandoned the away tactic because i was getting seriously trounced every match

anyways, i persisted with it, and was eventually sacked (i was manager at west ham)

Originally posted by ridley99:

i can confirm that bugels home tactic def works won everything in my first season quite easily

2nd season the tactic seems to be struggling a bit, got beat of Hull in the league cup

Jambo's works brilliantly, until I make it to the prem, then I seem to beat lesser teams but lose heavily to the big guys.

However after switching to Ridleys things are looking up.

Ive just beaten Man U twice and won 4-1 away to Arsenal, I am currently undefeated using this tactic.

I'll let you know at the end of the season.

has any 1 got a decent tactic for a mid table side as i keep gettin really inconsistant results

Originally posted by ashash10:

has any 1 got a decent tactic for a mid table side as i keep gettin really inconsistant results

Have you tried any tactics on here as these are the best tactics around for FMH08 and should turn your team in to title contenders

yeah the 352 by jambo dave but i need a gd 442 coz my full backs r unhappy

try my tactic or bugels home tactic

Is there any godd tactic in 4-4-2 Diamond??? I can't find any but i want to play this system because of my good playmaker...

Thanks for answering

i really reccomened the bugel - won the prem on first attemp with coventry

Originally posted by Sash83:

Is there any godd tactic in 4-4-2 Diamond??? I can't find any but i want to play this system because of my good playmaker...

Thanks for answering

Attacking

Direct

Hard

Yes

No

No

No

Passing - All team DM long

Tackling - All team

Pressing - GK and DF's no, everyone else team

Pass to - All r/l/c

Set Pieces - Leave as they are

Free role - Initially no, but if either your DM or AM have high creativity, give them a free role

Forward Runs - Full Backs, Wide Midfielders, AM and Strikers

Run With Ball - ML, MR, AM

Hold Up Ball - DM

Long Shots - Wide Mids, AM and Strikers

Through Balls - DM and Wide Mids

Cross Ball - ML, MR

Marking - DL DR DM ML MR Zonal - DC DC Man - AM FC FC none

I made a tactic after struggling with newcastle, i was 16th after 12 games but at the end of the season after using this tactic i got to 3rd in the prem and won the fa cup it looks like this

GK

DR DC DC DL

DMC DMC

MR ML

AM

FC

try it out

get it from... http://rapidshare.com/files/94624003/FMH_Tactic.zip.html

I then went on to win the league, champions league, fa cup and league cup for the next 3 years!!

If you don't get off to a good start with the tactic, stick with it and at the end of the season you say to yourself you made a good decision!!

4-4-3. I've never failed with this tactic.

The left & right midfielders run wide (one space) & the central midfielder runs back (one space)

Emphasis - Normal

Passing - Direct

Tackling - Hard

Pressing - Yes

Offside Trap - No

Counter Attack - No

Men Behind Ball - No

Passing: All team.

Tackling: All team, except 3 midfielders - Hard.

Pressing: GK,DCs - No, all else - Team.

Pass to: No change

Set peices: No change

Free role: No change

Forward runs: Yes to ML, MR & 3 forwards, all else - No.

Run with ball: Yes to ML, MC, MR, R & L forward, all else - No.

Hold up ball: Yes to MC & central forward, all else - No.

Long shots: Yes to all 3 midfielders & forwards, all else - No.

Through balls: Yes to all 3 midfielders, all else - No.

Cross ball: Yes to ML, MR, forwards L & R, all else - No.

Marking: GK - None, DCs & centre of 3 midfielders - Man, all else - Zonal.

The key to this formation is assuring that the central striker has a good heading & movement attribute & the 2 wide attackers have good crossing, shooting & movement attributes.

The centre of the 3 midfielders can be either a defensive or attacking player but should have a good attributes for heading, passing, shooting & tackling.

I've always felt 4-4-3 was the ideal tactic too. It just leaves such a gaping hole in goal though!

I tried your tactic, Ridley. In my first season as Chelsea I won the Premier League by about 10 points and got to the semis of all the cups. First season on 08 for me though. Either way, nice tactic mate!

Any other feedback, anyone? Be interesting to know what works best.

Originally posted by bbuullddoogg:

I've always felt 4-4-3 was the ideal tactic too. It just leaves such a gaping hole in goal though!

Yeah...best try the tactic as a 4-3-3 then!

Well spotted!

Yeah...best try the tactic as a 4-3-3 then!

Well spotted!

Hey have you been remotely controlling my FMH08 game? Look:

http://community.sigames.com/eve/forums?a=tpc&s=2101905...932039383#1932039383

Originally posted by scotisgreat.:

3-5-2.

Team Instructions

Emphasis-normal

Passing-short in summer/good weather.

direct in rain/ wind.

Tackling-hard

Pressing-yes

the rest no.

Player instructions

Tackling- 3 cm's hard rest team.

Pressing-all yes apart from defence

Free role-middle cm.

Forward runs-all midfielders, rest no

Run with ball- yes to ml, mr and middle cm. rest no

Long shots-3 cm's yes, rest no.

Cross ball-ml mr only

Marking-all man apart from middle cm and strikers who are none

this is similar ish to jambo dave's 3-5-2 but slightly modified.

This tactic got york into the prem with me with back to back titles.

don't worry about conceding goals, unless you have an amazing back 3 plus keeper, you tend to get a lot of 3-2 and 4-3 results.

good luck

Wow... I just tried this with Luton against Ipswich and I won, 6-1!

Im Using A 4-4-3 Formation With Newcastle That Is Working Well At Home, And Okay Away From Home.

Gk

Dr Cb Cb Dl

| |

| |

| |

| Cm Cm Cm |

V V

Sc Sc Sc

Team Instructions

Attacking

Short

Normal

Yes

No

No

No

Player Instructions

Gk- Short, Team, No, R/L/C, Normal, Normal, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, None.

Dl- Short, Hard, No, R/L/C, Back, Back, No, Yes, No, No, No, No, Yes, Man.

Dr- Short, Hard, No, R/L/C, Back, Back, No, Yes, No, No, No, No, Yes, Man.

Cb- Short, Hard, No, R/L/C, Forward, Back, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, Man.

Cb- Short, Hard, No, R/L/C, Back, Back, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, Man.

Mc- Short, Hard, Yes, R/L/C, Forward, Back, No, Yes, Yes, No, Yes, No, No, Man.

Mc- Short, Hard, Yes, R/L/C, Forward, Back, Yes, Yes, Yes, No, Yes, No, No, Zonal.

Mc- Short, Hard, Yes, R/L/C, Forward, Back, No, Yes, Yes, No, Yes, No, No, Man.

Sc- Short, Team, Yes, R/L/C, Forward, Back, Yes, No, Yes, No, Yes, No, No, None.

Sc- Short, Team, Yes, R/L/C, Forward, Forward, No, No, No, Yes, Yes, No, No, None.

Sc- Short, Team, Yes, R/L/C, Forward, Back, Yes, No, Yes, No, Yes, No, No, None.

well that formation messed up,

basically its 4-4-3 with the two wing backs making runs all the way up the line.

For the second time in this thread....you can't have 4-4-3 unless you plan on having no goalie!

after i posted it i realised that i had written 4-4-3 twice instead of 4-3-3!

sorry