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Everything posted by daniel.camponovo
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I don't know why I never thought of using a Top 160 Home and Top 120 Away approach (even when playing as a top team) -- I like to keep the same formation in all tactics to make recruiting easier, and looks like there are 4-2-0-2-2s in both Top 160 and Top 120, so I'll try that out for a bit and see how things go!
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Looks like this is the new leader according to the score in column N (which is what I usually use as a tie-breaker when comparing similar tactics) -- @knap, always been curious to hear how you decided on the weights of each input in the score formula, like how Points get a 0.64 weight while Goal Difference gets 0.3, less than half!
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It looks like team reputation is still very important in this year's game (and slow to build up) -- I'm doing a VNS to Prem League save with Buxton and am currently in League One, last season (first after promotion from League Two) was a slog and even the top-rated Beowulf 424 tactic was inconsistent and barely kept me up, finished 18th. But after surviving relegation, club gained some stature and reputation, and after my usual off-season business of marginally upgrading my team, I'm off to smashing people to start this new season, first place after 8 played, 7-1-0. So I expect the entire process will repeat itself as I get promoted to the Championship and then the Prem league, but it seems like stature/reputation are still pretty slow to increase and lag behind actual player upgrades you make to your squad (and can make Knap's tactics look worse than they are). I assume I eventually will be as high-reputation and dominant as Liverpool using these tactics, it'll just take a while
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Like the look of this one, going to try dropping the mentality to Cautious and using it as my Away tactic. Using Beowulf 424 IF VOL P104 as Home tactic so basically dropping an AF into the CM A spot and dropping mentality, because I agree with @burnum above, away games seem to be especially tricky this year.
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Want to just re-emphasize how important mentality appears to be in this ME, and how viable lower mentalities are to still win -- I'm in my first season in the Bundesliga after winning promotion from B2, so pretty clearly a bottom ~3 team in terms of roster talent, and I've been having decent success playing home games as Cautious and away games as Defensive (default Positive mentality on Knap's HGF 451 was giving up too many goals). I'm not gonna win the league, but I'm gonna avoid relegation and get stronger next year -- definitely seems like "defense" is still a bit bugged and the key to winning is scoring a ton of goals, but lower mentalities can absolutely let you hang on in tough games!
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If I'm looking for a tactic to win right away, I'll just pick the highest points/goal differential. If I'm picking a tactic for a long-term save, I'll pick anything I want (even down to aesthetics, or if I prefer one role to another) and just gradually get guys to fill those roles. Your team might start out with no suitable SS players, but if you sign one in your first transfer window, a whole bunch of 4231s open up for you!
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Curious to see @knap's response, but I've started taking this approach in my longer term saves -- I used to always be chasing the "best" formation that could find immediate success and like win the EPL with Brentford, but I think basically all of Knap's tactics can be basically unbeatable if you build up your team to be one of the best in the world (which is usually the goal in my long-term saves). So I've started just kind of picking formations I like, with player roles I like, knowing that as long as I keep signing better players to fill those positions and developing my youth players and rising up the ranks, the tactic will work even better for me!