Football, Tactics & Glory

[h2]Partly nice game but too restricted, less "action" and too complex[/h2] Football (yes I am european) is a game of 22 players running, fighting, shooting and what else. And all at the same time. That's impossible in a turn based version. Was looking for this game for a while and bought it now at discount. I hoped to get something like in 1980's with a C64. Heart of FT&G are the matches. Play it [b]manualy[/b] or let do it [b]automaticaly[/b] (called "simulation": ai plays for you) where u get but don't see a simulation - only a text line for each goal, injury, penatly etc. Outcome can be very different to manually! About macthes played manualy: Your team players have stats, skills and talents (kind of perks). Skills are special passes, shoots and others which enhance/support your stats to overcome the stats of the defender player's "wall". (And it can be a wall with 5-6 def players + goal keeper some with a higher than u def stat early in game.) The ways to score a goal are much more limited than in real life. Most of the time only 1-2 players are moving. (So it's no wonder (all?) other football games are action or maybe rts games instead.) Outside the matches u can make player transfers and spent your little fame to "hire" (better say "buy") trainers and scouts. Trainers give u % xp boni in matches for some of your player groups only, they are not like real persons. You can hire or train young talents, but your team has no room to train young players in matches and there is no training outside of matches (no 2nd team, training camps, ... nothing!). A missed chance. For me here doesn't happen enough in a match what u can do and what I can understand at the 1st view. Even after 26h I dont know/see which of my players I can select or if it's still the opponent's move. I abort my 1st game very soon because I hang inside the "must" tutorial (= trainer test). Even at 4th or 5th time my player stuck at "hold ball". But there's an option to disable tutotials - but ONLY at start of a new game! The main reason for a negative review: I played my 2nd game with reduced randomness. Was much harder than "easy"/favored randomness. First league I ended at pos 3 after some little errors - ok. But one league higher I had (as expected) troubles and ended at 3 again - but from the bottom. Back in lowest league and with some more knowledge and a better rooster pos 1 ...no lost last 2 matches vs. weakest teams (why??) so pos 2. Matches became boring with sometimes irritating results and team improvements slow and small. Team players are aging so u have to replace them at age 32-33 and retrain the new ones regularly at age 26-28 every few years in early game. Sorry, I want more fun with a game and not for 10-20h only.

So very addictive. Just one more match you tell yourself. Nope, still playing 10 matches later. Sometimes you get really really pissed off big time at the RNG gods, that you think the game is cheating. Then sometimes you take a risk at the last play of the game, even if the RNG isn't in your favor, and the RNG gods smile at you, and you score the winning goal, and you punch your fist in the air, and shout "Yes!", only for your wife to give you weird looks. Do not play in the office. You will not get anything done.

So I've played for a while, it's fun. Started in a low division. Find it rather hard. Still got promoted. Made some money, bought better players. Lost half the matches. Decided to take my better players to a lower league by losing on purpose, got demoted. had 16 players, but was left with 22 fans ( Not even their own families were fans). FIgured these players from higher league would perform better in the lower league. Plan did not work as designed. Skill issue. Damn hard to score.

Un mélange de foot manager et de xcom, peut sembler un peu bizarre au premier abord mais au final ça marche de fou et c'est super addictif

мусор

Really love when my GK has 10 in def stat but rolls a "1" 99 times out of 100

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Football, Tactics & Glory — A Brilliant Game Let Down by Its Core Engine This game is a gem. The turn-based strategy, the resource management, the RPG progression of your players: it's clear the developers put an enormous amount of love and craft into it. It hits almost every note I look for in a tactics game, and for a long time I thought I'd found my new favourite. So it genuinely pains me to leave a negative review. But I can't recommend it, and here's why. The maneuver resolution system is fundamentally broken. The core mechanic works like this: each action is resolved by having both players draw a random number within their own skill range (so a defender with 100 in tackling rolls 1–100, while a rookie with 20 in ball control rolls 1–20). Sounds reasonable on paper. But in practice, that elite defender still fails roughly 1 time in 10; and no matter how wide the skill gap, that failure rate has a floor that never disappears. and potentially getting sent off for it. The math is straightforward: no matter how superior your player is, that failure floor never goes away. Skill improves your odds, but it can never fully express itself, the randomness always has the final word. What makes this especially frustrating is that the fix isn't complicated. A few alternatives that would have preserved excitement while respecting player investment: - Skill (minus fatigue) + 1d100 vs. Skill (minus fatigue) + 1d100: randomness stays, but the gap between a 100-rated and a 20-rated player becomes meaningful and consistent. - A skill-based floor: the random roll can't go below, say, one quarter of the player's stat (minus fatigue). Your elite players still have bad days, but they don't catastrophically collapse against beginners. Either approach would have kept the unpredictability that makes football exciting while actually rewarding you for building a strong squad. As it stands, spending big at transfer market feels pointless. Your star players will let you down in moments that feel arbitrary, not dramatic. And that erosion of trust in the system slowly hollows out everything else the game does so well. I hope the developers revisit this. The bones of something truly special are here.