Having some problems with the mountain stages this year.. Having a career with Fabio Aru as my best climber and it doesn’t make sense how bad I do with him so far.. Got a lot of experience with previous versions, but cant seem to figure out how to the best of it this year in the mountains. If I’m the fourth best climber in the peloton with great form I still manage to lose my powers when its 25 riders left...
What is the best tactic do you guys think?
- Train? Aru follows Kreuziger, who follows Costa, who follows Taaramae
- Shielding? Aru gets shielded by Costa, Kreuziger by Taaramae.
And what effort level when driving early in a mountain? And what button?(hold position, lead the group, set effort) not sure about the english names, playong with norwegian language...
I only started playing a few days ago and was struggling with climbing finishes as well (and still am to some extent), I managed to take my first win with Dumoulin today, had Hindley and Hamilton (Mountain 68) and Vervaeke (Mountain 77) in a train in front of him.
At the start of the about 12km finish mountain, I used Hindley and Hamilton at around 75 effort point drive (just enough to keep the train somewhere near the top) until they were done and then used Vervaeke with slowly rising effort (up to 85ish) until 3km from the finish. At that point I let Vervaeke go all out 99 point until his red bar was gone and then sent Dumoulin (Mountain 80) sprinting like 1km from the finish. Was enough to finish like 3-4 bike length before the 2nd placed Latour (Mountain 78)
Not sure that this is the best way to do it, but it worked. I think the biggest mistake I made at my first attempts was to use riders with no mountain skill in the train. Hills doesn't seem to do have much impact there. I think you need guys with at least 67-69 mountain and a leadoff "sprinter" with >73/74 for an effective climbing train.
what I did so far is more or less the same as CDrake. Get one or two good climbers before your best climber. Just do 85 dot or maybe higher and keep pacing up enough to stay in front (follow with your best climber). At some point some other good climbers will attack. If your helpers are still good then just let them ride at dot 90 or something. Most of the time the other climbers are death because of attacking and you can profit from this in the last km.
DemareTrico wrote:
Thanks for the answers! What is DOT? How does it looks?
its that dot with an arrow the the right. It means the rider rides on its on pace (which you can set between 0-99). And ofcourse the higher you set it the sooner he will get exhausted/out of energy.
