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#294891 FM16 Steam Achievement Hunter
BigBadBaerni
Superb Strike
All Job Applications
Takeover Survival
Best in Europe
Club Legend
#294603 FM16 Steam Achievement Hunter
BigBadBaerni
Best In The World
Unlock Son Generated
Golden Boot
#294504 FM16 Steam Achievement Hunter
BigBadBaerni
Unlock No Transfer Windows
Full Faith
Unlock No Work Permits
Unlock No Loan Restrictions
Comeback King!
Highlight Reel
Freedom Of The Country
Unlock All Players Interested, Trophy Hoarder
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Unlock Unlimited Scouting, Part Of The Furniture
Double Hat-Trick
Confederations Winner
On Top Of The World
International Superstar
#294464 FM16 Steam Achievement Hunter
BigBadBaerni
I play celtic with a 4-2-3-1 WIDE (Ball Winning Midfielder / Wingers / Shadowstriker / False Nine). Control Mentality.
Instructions are: Shorter Passing, Pass Into Space, Run at Defence, Work Ball into Box, Whipped Crosses, Tighter MArking, More Expressive, Lower Tempo, Close Down Much More.
Given this, I always won the league in february / march with +/- 100 points.
Main Transfers in the first 3 years:
Year 1 : Harry Souttar (Dundee UTD) / Andrew Robertson (Hull) -> BOTH superb, still playing 10 years into the save
Year 2 : Jordan McGhee (Hearts) / Scott Bain (Dundee)
Year 3 : David Syme (Hibernian) / Blair Spittal (Dundee UTD) -> Spittal was PotY as Winger more than once
Then A LOT of scottish 4-5 star regen players to unlock "No Work Permits"
Even as Swiss, I know that Scott Brown is a VERY commited player on the pitch. But I can't imagine that he's red carded that much in RL as playing as BWM in my Save (2-4 times / year)
#294215 FM16 Steam Achievement Hunter
BigBadBaerni
Top of the Class
He's Signed, Record Signing
Parked the Tank
On a Roll
The Boss
Unlock International Management
Unock Foreign Influx
Invincible!
Cup Glory!
Unstoppable Force
Unlock No Sacking
Irresistible Force, Attack, Top Form
Legend, Best in Business
Undercover Agent
National Service, Headhunted
Loyality Card
#293817 FM16 Steam Achievement Hunter
BigBadBaerni
Thumping
Unrest at home
Session 6 - Top Division Underdog
Top Division Underdog
Session 7 - Financial Storm
Record Sale
Goal Machine
You're on Fire
Financial Storm
#293666 FM16 Steam Achievement Hunter
BigBadBaerni
Bayern Munich, Full Season, FMT
Iron Curtain
Shrewd Spender
Champions!
Unlock Attribute Masking
You can't win anything with kids.
#293664 FM16 Steam Achievement Hunter
BigBadBaerni
Bayern Munich, partial Season FMT.
Tremendous Trio & Star Man & Fantastic Five
The Invincibles
#293661 FM16 Steam Achievement Hunter
BigBadBaerni
Bayern Munich, partial Season FMT.
Parked the Bus
Hat-Trick
Injury Crisis
#293658 FM16 Steam Achievement Hunter
BigBadBaerni
Celtic Glasgow, partial Season FMT.
Back Of The Net! & First Victory
Clean Sheet
Unbeatable! & Scoring Streak
Team performance
What a goal!
He's sold!
I'm the Boss!
The Saviour Cometh
#293655 FM16 Steam Achievement Hunter
BigBadBaerni
BUT BOY I DO LOVE THEM !!!
This "career" is only a logbook of every Steam achievement I unlocked, and when/how it was done. Due to the nature of the achievements, more than one savegame is needed. Some are also in FMT as the unlockables and challenges are FMT based. In FMT I tend to quick simulate games when things go fine, as I only care for the achievements (who want's to play 20 seasons in FMT anyways? )
Last year, I was able to unlock 93 out of 105 ... this year I target 100+ achievements
My FM 2016 achievements list (soon)
My FM 2015 achievements list
My FM 2014 achievements list
#225813 FM15 Arbroath FC
BigBadBaerni
As planned, I wanted a good "False Nine", and I found one in person of Lewis Small, and a good goalkeeper too: Robbie Brown.
As we started to the league, the goal was promotion, though we've lost the two first games!
But soon, things were getting better, and by the end of the year, we were even able to defend the (sadly underrated) League Challenge Cup!
Direct promotion was becomming obvious after new year, and it was easier as we predicted (or the press expecting us to land on place 8 have thought).
Statistics:
Notice: Celtic Glasgow defeated us twice in League Cup and Scottish Cup by a two goal margin. But in the future, we'll see who can't get enough of whom
Until then, I remain the man in blue underpants
#225534 FM15 Arbroath FC
BigBadBaerni
The transfers are again very young, though Marcel Neuer (what a name!) and Dean Hawkshaw made their way into first team football right away.
The first half of the season we realized, that again, we wouldn't be affected by relegation, and we've done very good in the (sadly ignored by our management) Challenge Cup! (See video before).
In the second half, we managed to even reach place four (not bad for a media prediction of place 10) by the end, and were nominated to play promotion playoffs!
We knew, we weren't meant to be promoted, though the two losses by one goal each were hard to swallow. Especially when we had more and better chances
Second game, away:
The statistics looked good, especially in goal scoring:
It's been a great year for Arbroath, and with the right one or two transfers (Looking for a good "False Nine" and perhaps better goalie), we could try to go for promotion next year
#223635 FM15 Arbroath FC
BigBadBaerni
We managed to win the Scottish League Challenge Cup 2018!
After being 1:0 down after first half, we came back to level the game and win the cup with a breathtaking goal from our new & beloved greek winger Tryfonas Kazviropoulos (called John Smith by his team mates)!
#223630 FM15 Arbroath FC
BigBadBaerni
It was quite a hard first half into the season, but we've been able to avoid relegation places for quite the whole season:
At the end we reached a noteworthy place 7! That said, I was under the impression that if we wouldn't have always lost a couple of games in a row, it could also have been place 6 or better :/
I've uploaded the usual screenshots and statistics to the career section at http://sortitoutsi.net/careers/season/645
Twitter account: https://twitter.com/3bfm15_arbroath
#220566 FM15 Arbroath FC
BigBadBaerni
For the first time, i didn't try to fix something but to really improve the team. We've done some good & important transfers. Ian Smith & Cem Felek, despite their age, played a *great* sason, and also the new Goalkeeper Ryan Goodfellow (+1 for name) did impress me.
But, the season started like always: Early and shamefull exit in all cup competitions:
Though, for most of the time I was in the top 4, which lead my management to think of winning the promotion. WTF ? But, (again) we did good in the second half of the year, and we landed safely on a playoff spot being 3rd after qualification:
The first leg game went REALLY wel, we won 4:0 against East Fife at home:
The second game started really bad: 0:2 down after twenty minutes, and I was really affraid to fail again in semi finals, but .. everything ended fine:
The finals we played against Stranrear, and we've won the away game 1:0 :
The home game was pretty much under control. 0:0
The stats:
After more than a decade, Arbroath will play in the second highest league of Scottland again! It shall rain full time contracts soon!
#220363 Career Stats
BigBadBaerni
Bernhard
#220358 FM15 Arbroath FC
BigBadBaerni
The transfers: Again I was tryinng to bring more stability to the defense and attacking midfield.
During the frist part of the season, the team did good, and the dreaded relegation was most of the time a good piece away.
In the second half, we did even better, and thanks to great finish with 3 wins out of 3 games we even made it into the playoffs! But the dream of a second promotion in two years was gone soon, after loosing the first leg match at home playing Dunfermline with 1:3.
At least we managed to play 2:2 away, and ended the sason with a smile
Again, no luck at all in Cup ...
The team / player stats:
#220343 Career Stats
BigBadBaerni
I try to upload my manager history html to a season, but I'll always get "Whoops, looks like something went wrong."
Version: FM 2015
Language: English
Currency: UKP
Anything else I've got to check?
Thanks for any hints!
Bernhard
#214903 FM15 Arbroath FC
BigBadBaerni
Well, Arbroath is a decent team for Scottish League 2 and I thought about rushing through the season, grab enough wins to earn (deserved) promotion and head for better things! I've even transferred some players, to make things more stable in defence!
Though coming christmas, things looked bad, and club management wanted to have a chit chat!
They: "Well boy, you're doing really bad! We'll fire you!"
Me: "That's not fair! I just flew in from Switzerland, and didn't even had a pint in every pub around!"
They "That would take years! We still fire you!"
Me: "But I've hired Owen Hargreaves as Under 20s Coach! That has to count for something!"
They (smiling): "Yes, he'll make a good first team coach, but we'll give you a chance: 10 Points in the next 5 games or you're history!"
So I checked what was going wrong, and after going through the tactics, I thought to myself: "I would have definitely fired me!"
A main problem was, that my left/right backs tried to do some wide crossing during triggering the next attack. Having crossing attributes in the range from 2 to 4, this was looking particularly stupid on the pitch, and we were loosing possession over and over again. I even told them to cross less often, do shorter passing and so on. THEN I realised, that I've set them to support duty and telling them to do exactly so
So, after we've fixed that, and did train "Match Tactics" before every single game (oh they ain’t fast learners I can assure you), things changed ... A LOT!
We won pretty much EVERYTHING, with great stats for wingers & strikers.
Yes, we ended up winning Scottish League 2 with a margin of 8 points, and both, Owen Hargreaves and Club Management had a fight who was allowed to sit next to me during promotion celebrations
#213250 FM15 Arbroath FC
BigBadBaerni
We're a couple of swiss guys playing FM for almost a decade now. Every year we select a lower league team and try to lead it to the top league of a country and check out who's performing better.
This year we decided to take over Arbroath FC in the Scottish League Two. Why Arbroath FC? Well, speaking for me: While traveling through Scotland I've had lunch there once, and I like the stadium being so close to the sea
While this is meant to be a long term save, I don't intend to post updates much more than twice a year, but to keep the end of season statistics up to date with uploaded screenshots.
Find much more updates at the automatic twitter/youtube feed for this save here...
PS: Yep, I'm not natively english speaking :/
22 (twenty-two!) countries in europe seem to have a better top league than the Scottish Premiership! Even Austria and Switzerland (when the hell did that happen Scottland?!) So, we add the top leagues of these countries as VIEW-ONLY leagues to our game. Mainly to get their best players and getting rid of our worst grass hoppers
Since FM 2015 we're allowed to customise our attributes, and I do exactly as proposed by the FM for a club like Arbroath.
#208300 Achievements Sync
BigBadBaerni
I've linked my Steam account with this site, to get achievements synched. First my profile was "private", though now public. But still achievements are not synched.
What can I do?
Thanks for any hints & greetings from Switzerland,
Bernhard
EDIT: Solved automatically meanwhile