Championship Manager 4
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Cullhaven
Hernes Son
In cm2, playing 3 defs 4 mids and 3 strikers in a 3-3-1-3 formation with direct ball as tactic we took Leyton Orient to the European cup final in 7 seasons from division 4 and one season Sam Ayorinde got 87 goals! (I think the formation was a "cheat" one put in by the pogrammers that we stumbled upon by accident.). U had to play it a few times for trial and error to know which players to get. Danny Murphy, 2 of the Spaniards from Wigan Ath, a young welsh striker who's name escapes me now. Using those tactics most games scored 5 or more goals too 
Treebeard
Ranger of the North
Played 3 seasons now, just did the treble with the Arse, and I'm not as hooked as I was with the previous games. Maybe it was playing too much 01/02, but it just dosen't seem to have that magic this time around.
Going to try with a third division team and work up. Thats normally where things are more interesting.
A couple of niggles.
Players don't seem to have as much of an impact as I seem to remember in previous CM games. Its all about tactics which is fair to a point, but I just played Newcastle in the Champions League final and because of nearly all of my squad away on international duty (another stupid niggle) I had to play the game with two goalkeepers in outfield and mostly all second string or youngsters and still won. It just feels that I could stick anyone in the first 11 no matter who and get a result as the tactics seem to work. Players seem to lose a bit of their personality because of this as they all seem generic.
Players constantly miserable for no reason. Don't know why after being so successful but a lot of the players morale is always v. poor. Maybe its a bug.
Still, this season one of Spurs' imaginery summer signing targets is Ronaldo. Good to see some things are spot on and Spurs continue to delude themselves.
Going to try with a third division team and work up. Thats normally where things are more interesting.
A couple of niggles.
Players don't seem to have as much of an impact as I seem to remember in previous CM games. Its all about tactics which is fair to a point, but I just played Newcastle in the Champions League final and because of nearly all of my squad away on international duty (another stupid niggle) I had to play the game with two goalkeepers in outfield and mostly all second string or youngsters and still won. It just feels that I could stick anyone in the first 11 no matter who and get a result as the tactics seem to work. Players seem to lose a bit of their personality because of this as they all seem generic.
Players constantly miserable for no reason. Don't know why after being so successful but a lot of the players morale is always v. poor. Maybe its a bug.
Still, this season one of Spurs' imaginery summer signing targets is Ronaldo. Good to see some things are spot on and Spurs continue to delude themselves.
Eggs
No no no
Got it a couple of days ago , having not played CM for a coupe of years im well enjoying it.
Played my first season with bournemouth (my local team) was expected to have a respectable finish , had zero cash for transfers and a huge bank loan, had to sell a couple of players to bring wage bill down.
Anyway made it only to 3rd round of FA cup but i did beat Cardiff City in 2nd round, Season didnt start so well until i got in a couple of loan players and a couple of free transfers and reverted to my old CM formation of 4-4-2 attacking with 2 midfield generals.
Somehow managed to pip 3rd place in divvy 3 and get auto promotion. Season 2 has started and only 2 games in with a 6-1 away win over tranmere hehe and then a 3-2 defeat to cambridge after being 2-0 up. I have aqquired for the season on loan Luke Chadwick from Man U and mikeal forsell from leeds so things are looking up and the bank loans are going down.
I actually got a budget of 40k to spend on players too, gonna try not to use it as Bournemouths finances are looking a bit dodgy still.
Played my first season with bournemouth (my local team) was expected to have a respectable finish , had zero cash for transfers and a huge bank loan, had to sell a couple of players to bring wage bill down.
Anyway made it only to 3rd round of FA cup but i did beat Cardiff City in 2nd round
, Season didnt start so well until i got in a couple of loan players and a couple of free transfers and reverted to my old CM formation of 4-4-2 attacking with 2 midfield generals.Somehow managed to pip 3rd place in divvy 3 and get auto promotion. Season 2 has started and only 2 games in with a 6-1 away win over tranmere hehe and then a 3-2 defeat to cambridge after being 2-0 up. I have aqquired for the season on loan Luke Chadwick from Man U and mikeal forsell from leeds so things are looking up and the bank loans are going down.
I actually got a budget of 40k to spend on players too, gonna try not to use it as Bournemouths finances are looking a bit dodgy still.