===== CHAMPIONSHIP MANAGER 03/04: VERSION 1.00 FAQ and PLAYER GUIDE: BY thy451 ===== I hope to be able to collect all the tactics and training created by CM 03/04 players in this guide. Neoseeker Forums » PC Games » Sports/Simulation » Championship Manager 03/04 » Can You Tell Me Some Good Training Schedules????? 0 Championship Manager 03/04.

Having had a spin on my cousin's laptop & his copy of CH4 (the season 03/04 update) I decided that this has to be my next addiction, remembering the fun I had with the now neolithic Premier Manager series. However, I'm not sure whether it'd worth shelling out for this newest version or if I'd be more intelligent to go for CM 01/02 for £5. I heard that CM4, which I can get for a tenner, was so buggy it wasn't worth wasting a perfectly good barge pole on, so I realy have no idea what to spend my cash on. Any advice would be reet good like. Only YOU can save St Johnstone FC!

I downloaded (uh. Legally, I think - it is seven million years old) Championship Manager 2 recently, which was quite fun. Slightly bizarre too, because it seems to be missing a few things you might think were vital (like training and stuff). Anyway, having narrowly missed out on the playoffs with Darlington I'm now in relegation freefall. Bottom of the league. And my 20-goal-a-season man has decided he can't be arsed to play well anymore.

And the board hate me. And my job is under threat.

Right, is 03/04 a standalone game? Or do you need something called Championship Manager 4 before you can update it to 03/04, or what? Because I feel like I need a version of this game that's newer than 95/96. Blank udostovereniya fsb. Originally posted by krummi This is most simple.

Did you play differently like as in you had a defensive mentality and the new dude attacked manically or vice versa? Seems to make a surprisingly big difference.

Well, I did pretty much suck. But the new bloke should've been crap too; he was using IDENTICAL tactics (such as the 'tactics' are in Champ Man 2) to me. 4-4-2 and 'direct' football. So that left me doubting how exactly one influences things in this game. How intuitive is it? I mean, I play my pacey players down the wing.

And they do bugger all. Does it recognise stuff like that? How about sticking a defender who's good at heading in the heart of defence if they're playing long-ball. Or pushing a quick striker up against a slow back 4? This stuff should surely have some effect, but it doesn't seem to at all.

My strikers NEVER score. Defenders seem to have more shots than anyone else. People with 'shooting 2/3/some crap score' tend to score far more than they ought to. MADNESS I TELL YOU! Well i was managing Inverness Caley Thistle for about 3 years (a Scottish Div 1 team) - i managed to get them into the Scottish PremierLeague, and then we qualified for the Uefa Cup. Its actually quite difficult to go the big clubs at the start, especially in 03/04, becuase the players dont know you and you have to win them over.

I usually go a small rubbishy team, do well with them then apply to all the big clubs, and thats what happened in my current game. A Scot who manages a rubbish Scottish team then goes on to manage Manchester United to glory! It'lll never happen. I don't find managing big clubs at the start difficult at all. Especially Man Utd. The game is so biased towards them that you could play Nistelrooy on goal and Gary Neville as striker, and still win the treble on the first season Actually, I find CM 03/04 one of the easiest games in the CM series ever. I use the tactics and training schedule that I developed back in CM4 (with a specific schedule for goalies, full backs, center backs, defensive midfielders, attacking midfielders, wingers, and strikers), and the results are awesome.