Question about the Reliability of radio messages

[messageboy101]

Question about the Reliability of radio messages, while i was patrolling the bismarck sea in august 5th 1942 i recieved a message that a IJN taskforce departed from turak and enroute to rabual near the bismarck sea they would arrive on august 7th, so i set sail to to the port of rabual. I got there right in time and waited but nothing came no increasing air activitie no increased surface activitie

So now im wondering are the radio messages accurate

Im running sh4 1.5
Rsrd v300xxx
Tmo 2.5

Greeta MB101

[fred8615]

How long did you wait? I find the game for some reason is about 14 hours off in time settings. When I put radio messages in my Pre Pearl Harbor mod missions I had to subtract those 14 hours to get them to display at the time I wanted them to. And using RSRD, I find the shipping alerts they use will show up much later than given in the message.

[messageboy101]

I waited around something like 24 hours and did some patrolling around the area

[World_Devastator]

I have stumbled on this also, received same messenge and was in the area, never saw a thing. Pretty much open sea's. I am curious to this as well

[Fish40]

I find the radio messages in RSRD pretty accurate. Don't forget, your clock on board unfortunately always records "Base" time. When in the combat area, you must allow for the time difference.

[merc4ulfate]

Fish is correct. Not only that but Task Force and Convoys will have a spawn point, end point or way point. If it was scripted to despawn 2nm from the port then that is as far as it will get. I have had convoys disappear on me just as I was getting into range because of this.

If it is a waypoint then the Task Force may come with 10 or 20 nm of the port and then turn and continue down another track. I too have seen this one happen.

Unless you have them running into a narrow straight and your using a long range radar and sonar it is pretty easy to miss them if they are on the outskirts of your detection area.

You also can not track them long range unless your playing the German side. I use the air search a lot as a U-Boat because I can then track and plan an attack on TF and convoys that may be 300 miles away.

[messageboy101]

That could be it, still i was playing early war and s-18 class so i dindt had powerful sonars and sensors and i was in about 900 yards of port.

Altough i did pick up a distant contact but it disapeard before i got his range so i discarded it as a passing ship maybe that was the tip of the taskforce

Thanks for all of your replies and lesson learned