After a bunch of testing, I'm releasing my version of the strikerless 21.4 tactics. While the work is original, this is heavily influenced and in part based on the ZaZ Red/Blue/Cyan and Phoenix series. My main intention was to create a tactic with less variance and an even stronger setup against good teams.

With 62 wins in a 40 team/80 game test league, this has produced the best result I've seen since the release of FM21.

My suggestions for underdog teams:
- Add "Take fewer risks" to Wingers
- Set one CM to "Support" instead of "Attack"
- Start every game as an underdog with "Cautious" and then switch to Positive when you are confident
- If you are super underdog or a really weak team, switch the Winger from "Attacking" to "Support". Note that this will considerably lower your offensive power

Here are some testing results

Poacher said: I've been noticing IWBs, DM and MC always get the lowest rating among the other positions in this tactic and I don't think you can do anything about that, I think it's just the way the tactic works Expand

Most of the screens ive seen, the ratings for these positions are between 6.75 and 7...those are good ratings. It's impossible to create a tactic where everyone scores an 8 on average so not sure what you want to be honest

apparently you and me have accomplished mind-melt :p

ta2199 said: No I play with the AP/DM version by him.
The key thing is you have to keep rotate your squad during the season. Not just in the December / January to keep your player fresh and happy That's the most annoy things will happend when you go on holiday for whole season( you will see a slump during mid season ) Expand

I believe I finally might have something even better - but some testing still needs to be done before releasing it

Not very impressive quite frankly. Might be a good tactic for weaker teams

I'm happy to try it when i have some time but based on the results posted, this doesn't look incredibly promising.

Lets just say its not a MASTERPIECE...

Jawad said: healmuth can we get a one striker tactic? u are the best Expand

I haven't found a combination that can replace the effectiveness of a Shadow Striker. I've tried quite a bit in the past few days but it doesn't seem possible right now.

If you literally just changed the mentality and called it a "tweak" AND named it a different tactic altogether, that would be pretty brazen...

2nd run.

Agreed - does not seem to suit weak teams very well.

Here's first run of Early&Often

I can confirm that early crossing produces better results. I forgot to take screenshots but i simmed with for 240 games total and Early Crossing came out on top every time.

On to test Early & Often

Early crossing test - promising!

test 1

FM FAN said: I am suprised to see that a tactic that averaging 2.2 points with a 165 team apparently can score so much lower with a 140 team. It sounds like a huge different. Do you have a screen of this? Expand

i would need to run the sim again. I only grab the first page of the league table as always

looks good

Finished 32nd out of 40 teams. Basically if a tactic can’t make top20 with CA140 it’s not a very stable tactic

here ya go

FM FAN said: I¨ve been using it in FM 21 and it still create some great results allthough its created for FM 20. Lets see what FM Arena will say to it. In the mean time, who tested it? Expand

sorry i thought it was a different tactic, my bad. I'll test it!

Guidito said: Healmuth why don't you post your new version for it to be tested? Curious to see the results.. Expand

I posted it above??