FM18 Tactics guide

Welcome to this tactics guide for Football Manager 2018. FM18 is a huge game when it come to the tactics and it takes most people ages to master it. This is what I have learned during almost 150 hours in the FM18 beta combined with the experience from playing the manager games for about 20 years.

Football Manager 2018 tactics guide

Tactics is a huge and very important part of Football Manager 2018, finding a good formation, making it even better by setting it up with the correct team instructions and individual instructions combined with how you analyze your opponent ant making the right changes based on their strengths and weaknesses could be the difference between winning that fancy title or getting sacked in the morning.

This is a three part guide where each part will focus on a specific thing, part 1 will take a close look on what to do when you start a new save with a new team, how to analyze your own team and finding the right formation for the team. Part 2 will focus on the days before match day, how to analyze your opponent, getting tactical advices from your assistant manager and the new tactical briefing function in FM18. Part 3 will focus on match day, how you do your team talks, how to respond to different things that may happen during the game, how to use different tools in the game to analyze what is going on and identify problems.

I understand that this guide is massive and that it will be to long for some people. I’m okay with that, this guide is not for everybody, but I rather have the guide to be a bit too long than skipping out on important aspects of the FM18 tactics, I already feel like I have skipped to much even with its current length.

If you are a very experienced FM player who is face rolling your way through FM18 you will probably not learn much new from the guide, but you know what, the FM community is a great one so spread your knowledge in the comment section below this guide, tell people about your best tips and tricks and let us know about the things in this guide that you don’t agree with and why, together we can all help each other to become better football managers.

Part one

What to do as a new manager, how do you use squad depth to learn about your teams strengths and weaknesses? How do you find a formation suitable for your team? How do you get the right instructions for that formation? What about mentality and team shape? And how do you get individual players to work even better by creating individual instructions for them?

Part two

How you prepare for match day, getting scouting reports about your next opponent and getting tactical advices from your and assistant manager. How do you change your tactic and formation based on that information to counter your opponents strengths and try to exploit their weaknesses? And of course are we going to take a look at the tactical briefing which is a new function in FM18.

Part three

This part will focus on match day, the team talk before the game starts, how to react to what is going in the game and make changes to your formation and tactics to respond to what's happening. How to use different tools in the game to analyze whats going on in the game and identify problems. How to talk to the team during half time and how to make does important game changing subs.

[Dora]

I can't thank you enough for this guide!

[thefatdudeuk]

its really blurred?

[大铁棍子医院捅主任]

lol

[=UD= Flamepreacher]

Thanks for the guide, really useful for a new player

[Ater]

BRAIN EXPLOSION: It was the 5th season. First season I managed to get promoted from the Championship, then four seasons in PL finishing a little better each one. For the next season I was thinking about completely changing up the formation to something else, but it's only one week left of the transferee window and the players I need for that formation just haven't been available, at least with my limited budget.

[👹MR GHETTOSMART👹]

Like 20 seasons in?

[Ater]

BRAIN EXPLOSION: In my current save I just won the Premiere League with Hull not playing 5-2-3 as my main formation.

[👹MR GHETTOSMART👹]

"Tactic GUIDE?" are you fucking serious ...Tactics were a thing of old football manager before 2017...Its not a question of guides anymore...its a question of playing 5-2-3's or taking a cock in your mouth

[Aitor]

Amigos

[也曾梦想仗剑走天涯]

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