[Quickfire Questions and Answers Thread (Tactic and Training Questions Only)]

Just as an update. I found a better way to do it.

If you alter the player positions in a match, then save the tactic. You can then import that tactic after the match and it will have remembered the new player positions.

[Quickfire Questions and Answers Thread (Tactic and Training Questions Only)]

EDIT: I see this has been asked about twice on the previous page. So I will do as suggested, seems a pain in the back side to have to start creating the tactics again from scratch.

I have a stupid question that has got me baffled.

I have got three tactics that I would like to switch between on the fly during a match to mix things up or counter a specific threat.

Now all three are set in my tactics overview. But one of them swaps my player positions.

For example, my Striker jumps to my Left Full Back position and my Full Back is in my center of defence and so on. Now if I drag those players to the correct positions and save the tactic, when I switch back to one of the other two tactics the players end up in the wrong positions on those two.

I have tried emptying the team and trying to move the player positions there, but that also does not work.

What have I done wrong? And how can I set it so that the base positions for each tactics are always occupied by the same player in all three tactics?

Been doing my head in for a few days now.

[Mr Hough 10.3 Tactics]

I was working on my own 4-1-2-0-3 formation for a while with fairly good effect, it got me European football on my return to the premiership and I won the FA cup in season 1 and 2. But I decided to download yours to have a look how different it is from mine. It gave me an improvement in results, so I stuck with it, but slowly adjusted it to suit my individual players with tweaks each game based on my opposition, the pitch size and the weather.

Now I am Newcastle in season 3 and I am a heavily changed squad, very heavily changed, only Steven Taylor still plays in my first team, everyone else is new:

http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r197/andrewhedley/Newcastle10squad.png

As you can see, the squad is impressive, not the best in the world but pretty strong by any ones standards. Ruben De la Red has been exceptional in my right midfield slot, Huddlestone impressive all season as my DM, Thiago has been good in my left midfield slot, but is unsettled and I am going to have to sell him this transfer window.

It was the addition of Hulk to my forwards line up (he plays in the centre) that was the stroke of genius, he is totally awesome on this game in this position. I still struggle with the two full back positions and have yet to get some one I really like in either of those slots.

Of my starting line up, Jo, Vagner Love and now Vela and Hart where all transfer listed by request so I got them at cost. De La Red was a free transfer. But the rest have cost a pretty penny, Hulk, being by far the most expensive at £20 million, but he has scored 25 goals this season so far.

Total spend over 2.5 season:

In: 58.55 million (This figure is hidden by many players being over 48 months and in reality is probably closer to 100 Million).

Out: 61.25 Million

Here are my results this season so far:

http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r197/andrewhedley/Fixtures.png

Of great importance is the 12 match run where I did not concede and the 10 match run where I scored 3 or more goals in each match.

So far I am unbeaten and top the league by 11 points.

I have scored 65 goals compared to 35 from the next top scoring team (Only 2 goals from corners, which is pretty poor).

Only Chelsea have conceded fewer goals, 8 verses my 12.

So a big thumbs up for creating a pretty legen.... wait for it....DARY tactic.

I do wonder how well I will do next season when I improve my 2 full backs and start the season with (touch wood) a pretty established team. Although I really didn't expect to be strolling to league success this season.

[Mr Hough 10.3 Tactics]

I seem to also remember Zonal also suffers more from language barriers, so if you buy an GK or Defender who can not speak your language he is better off on man marking.

Regarding Tugs Training. Unless there is a 10.3 version of TUGS, I recommend knocking both of the physical training bars down a notch on everything apart from the Goal Keeper, I do not redistribute those points. This helps with condition at the end of matches immensely. I don't alter the youth ones at all.

[Best CM/FM-player all time? And favorite player all time?]

Eddie Johnson (sp?), the American with awesome physical attributes on FM08, he was like a goal machine and the first person I would always sign.