Devblog #2 - Tactics and Squad Building

Greetings managers!

As the work continues towards the release later this year, its time to talk about tactics in CS Manager, and what to keep in mind to create the best setup for your team. Maps, positions, and players personal preferences all contribute to the balance of creating the perfect tactics. Lets dive into it!

Players and preferences

When building your team, you must take into consideration your players' positions and what maps they like. There are 5 offensive positions and 4 defensive ones, however, even while playing a good position, players see a drop in performance while playing maps they don't like and vice versa. Scouting and building your team to have synergy on maps and positions is crucial to success.


Tactics

With your players set, its time to check your tactics. CS Manager has a total of 8 maps, with 7 of them in the active map pool. Every now and then the map pool rotates, so no team can ever be completely comfortable in their tactical setup. Your tactics consists of two parts:


1) Map specific instructions
Map specific instructions are which players have which position on each map. When deciding defensive positions, its important to keep in mind how difficult different parts of the map are to hold. On the offensive you also choose each players individual position, as well as if you want to focus your attacks towards a certain area more often than others.

2) General roles and tendencies
General roles and tendencies apply to all maps and are things such as who the in-game-leader on your team, whether your team plays a fast or slower style, and if players have a lot or little freedom to make plays based on their own intuition

There are other things that affect how well your tactical setup plays out. A player with low consistency may not be reliable to deliver in his position, a player with low composure may crumple in a big game. Ensuring that your players can speak the same language is also important to keeping squad cohesion high. Attention to all these aspects of your team will reward you with a strong team that can punch above their weight.


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