rferry Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 Came back from vacation to find a string of terrible and unpredictable losses. I suspect because the club was playing an inappropriate formation: a 4141-DM. We have no DMs on the roster. No one is even rated as capable at the position. The players that were forced to play the position (generally a ball-winning M© from the reserves/youth) received less than a 6.0 match rating while one of our regular AM©s and M©s sat on the bench. Our three tactics are a 4231wide, 4411 and 451, and while I didn't restrict the Assistant Manager to follow current match tactics, he chose the random 4141-DM formation. The AM's favorite formation is a 3-5-2. The only staff whose favored formation that includes a DM is our Head of Youth Development (and he hasn't brought in any DMs in years), a fitness coach, and a U21s coach. Most of the staff prefers a 442 or 4411 formation. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
daylight Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 The assistant managers in the game are lunatics! I am guessing if this was real life I would get to about 40 minutes into my first game and the police and stewards would have to pull me off him! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andu1 Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 AI managers have 4 formation they use. Favorite, second, Attack and Defend tactic. It certain used one of those other 3 options. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
calcal Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 Lesson learnt, Don't go on holiday lol Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
podunkboy Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 Next time, set him to use your tactics, if you leave it up to him you have only yourself to blame. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andychar Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 Why did you go on holiday in the first place when there were games to be played, unless they were friendlies, i'll let you off! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
daylight Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 Are you actually telling someone how they should play the game? I would wager there are many many players that skip the matches, unlike the OP though people set the assistant to use the formation the player uses, that was the only 'mistake' the OP made. If my team has already won the league or are sitting mid table with nothing to play for I have sometimes set the assistant to manage the games using my tactics for the remaining games, it is a means to an end to get to the new season quicker. Everyone plays their own way. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andychar Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 Are you actually telling someone how they should play the game? Nope not in the slightest. I've never skipped a game in my entire FM life. Just find it weird that people do. I wasn't having a go at all. But like you said everyone plays their own way, each to their own. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott MUFC Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 you can get the assman to use your tactics if you set up the match THEN holiday which i resort to doing when I can't be bothered.... they also have an annoying habit of fielding players you don't want to use Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rferry Posted March 6, 2015 Author Share Posted March 6, 2015 Because I was crushing the league and should've won the rest easily. The only thing that could've slowed us down is some stupid formation. Still made promotion in the end. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Hook Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 you can get the assman to use your tactics if you set up the match THEN holiday which i resort to doing when I can't be bothered.... they also have an annoying habit of fielding players you don't want to use The problem is, they do screwy things with the roles you've set in your tactic. I sometimes holiday through useless cup games (using a downloaded file that has Aberdeenshire Cup for example; after a couple of promotions, what's the point!?!) and was surprised to see, looking at the analysis, the bizarre roles/duties the assman chooses. If I set up that way, it would be a blood bath. Just strange. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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