Daniel Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 Started a new save with Villa on the new patch. First season i got 6th, but still had alot of high earners and hardly any money. Second season was more of the same. Got a Few free transfers in and got 6th again. Third season i started to get more money. Stadium capacity got increased and i got 4th. Forth season and Finally won the league. Non of the first 11 are the same from the first season. Alot of money spent, but now making profits every season with Champions league football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddywhack Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 I'd written off my Champions League dream with Villa when my group was Real Madrid, AC Milan and CSKA Moscow, but I beat Real Madrid 6-1 last night. I'm not sure whether to celebrate like mad or throw the game in the bin for being so ridiculous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 I had Barcelona in my group, lost 2-4 away and won 2-0 at home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudevillaisnice Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 Thanks, I am downloading it now. No problem, let me know how you get on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC-Prideofbrum Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 Just started a game with Villa, N'Zogbia is really good ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PompeyVillan Posted April 11, 2012 Share Posted April 11, 2012 Zoltan Steiber just signed for Swansea for £7 million on mine. He looks quite good. Is actually any good in real life. (Yes I am still playing, and yes I am doing pretty badly, but better than before 12th!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted April 11, 2012 Share Posted April 11, 2012 started it up again, playing as barca which i havent done in about 6 years, thought it might be interesting because barca skews my complaint of it being too easy to find regens, pretty much everyone is decent at best, i think hummels is the only player i scouted that they said would be better than what i had, a fair chunk of the barca youth seem to be very underrated too, tello is rubbish, cuenca isnt much better that said ive played 32 games, won 30, drawn 2, conceeded 8, scored 90 something, messi and villa both over 40 goals in all comps ive played FM for 14 years i think and ive gone unbeaten a few times (mainly with ajax games) but ive never been this dominant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Beat my best record for goals scored in a season. Was 84 with David Villa on fm2011. This guy smashed it and single handedly won the league. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 Been on this again, to pass time. Still on my Eastleigh/Hamilton/Norwich game, won FA Cup and League cup in the season just gone with Norwich and then Villa offered me the job... they have loads of overpaid players, foreigners who are past their best and a new owner... Cannot resist the challenge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giro Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 70 goals in a league season lol The game is laughable sometimes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiggyrichard Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 Right, we had a new laptop the other week so ive bit the bullet and brought this. Any tips please guys? I fancy have a bash with Arsenal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laivasse Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 Is it your first Footie Manager game? If so, I said some super basic things about the gameplay in this post and this one. As for specific tips about 2012, I'm not so hot since I only played the demo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiggyrichard Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 Ive played them before but not for maybe 2 or 3 years. Ive read your tips, cheers for those I never used to fart around with the tactics to much as they were too confusing. Have they toned them down at all? I used to just find something that seemed to work and stick with it. Am i expected to mess around with the tempo etc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laivasse Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 Probably best if you do suit the tempo and such to your tactics. Nowadays you can do it from a couple of simple drop down menus, instead of messing with those annoying sliders. The 'Strategy' drop down has like 6 options, and the 'passing' drop down has three, but changing just one of those will change a whole host of the hidden sliders. For instance setting Strategy to 'Attacking' and Passing to 'More Direct' will bump your tempo right up, as well as automatically changing all the other small settings to suit, including automatically changing individual player passing to be 'more direct'. You can do all that through the tactics creator wizard, it's pretty streamlined nowadays. You can also tweak stuff mid-game with Touchline Shouts. Eg. giving the shout 'Retain Possession' will slow the tempo and shorten the passing. It's better to have a slower tempo and shorter passing if you're trying to break a very defensive team down, close out a game or if you're generally playing a short passing game with shoddy passers. Shouting 'Get ball forward' will activate Operation Ginger Thunder aka Collins Mode. A more 'attacking' strategy fits shorter passing if you have good passers, longer passing if you have a physically beefy team. Personally I don't have much use for the more defensive strategies like 'Counter' and 'Contain'. I hardly ever select anything more Defensive than 'Standard' even when playing on the counter, because much like real life, soaking up pressure is just asking for one of your defenders to screw up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laivasse Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 Oh and one more tip, it's an old one but it still applied to the 2012 demo when I played: Under Player Instructions, the game defaults to giving your two centre-halfs the instructions of 'Attack Far Post' and 'Attack Near Post', for attacking corners. 'Attack Far Post' is fine - give that one to your CB with best Jumping and Heading - but change the guy with 'Attack Near Post' to 'Near Post Flick On'. Whoever has 'Attack Near Post' will sometimes receive the ball to feet, so it's much better if they're a forward or someone with a strong shot, rather than a CB. Meanwhile the 'Near Post Flick On' guy will almost always receive the ball in the air - better for a CB with a clever header on him - plus the 'Flick On' bit is misleading as he'll more often go for goal with a header rather than flick it on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiggyrichard Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 Cheers buddy, appreciated. So are Villa shite on it, whats the transfer kitty? Like i say, might give Arsenal a blast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiggyrichard Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 4 **** hours to install the game on Steam!?!?!?!?! You've got to be taking the piss???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eames Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 Eithern that or your broadband provider is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rino8 Posted April 19, 2012 Visiting Supporter Share Posted April 19, 2012 4 **** hours to install the game on Steam!?!?!?!?! You've got to be taking the piss???? It took me 10 hours to install the demo for FM10, consider yourself lucky. Used the editor to put a couple of players I like (that aren't particularly great) at Guiseley FC, in the Blue Square North. Scored something like 30 goals in 6 games, conceded 1. It makes a nice change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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