Not sure..Did you stay late through 8/9 and morning of 8/10?

I'm using TMO, but I think all the battles script the same regardless of supermod.

The large US invasion fleet shows up I think the night of 8/8 along with the US TF.
You see this?

The JP TF will go around Savo and go back up the slot if they all don't get sunk.

I entered the Savo Island area early on 8/8 and stayed to the east of the island stopped until midnight on 8/9 - 8/10, pretty much where I expected the invasion fleet to anchor. I have a save before I steamed into iron bottom sound to try again. I was getting many drops out of TC, but no contacts. I'll stay longer and see.

Do you have radar...Check your sonar for a bearing where the JP TF is coming and see if you can hear anything.

If it doesn't show, must be a difference with RFB, but I wouldn't think he would change the historical date for the actual battle.

Just loaded the save (8/6/42 6:00am) and will see what happens. I'm in USS Swordfish (SS-193) so no radar yet.

Well it just doesn't happen in my universe. Lot's of planes but no fleet action and I stayed through 8/12. :wah:

Must be a RFB thing. You are running the correct RSRD and the latest patch. Leave the patch out it screws up traffic...you probably are, just checking...

Course you could peek in the mission editor.

Still something is strange, cause I don't think Lurker would change the historical dates for mod...I don't think he did.

Just reinstalled on a new system in February, so it was all correct at that time and I haven't noticed any strange behavior. I started a new career at the beginning of the war at Manila and am on my third patrol. I've only encountered single ships except for an invasion fleet at anchor off Vigan and some CL's and DD's racing through the Jawa Sea. That seems normal for the period. I did get a signal about a convoy enroute to Rabaul from Truk which never showed up, and I don't see how I could have missed it as I was stationed to the NW of Rabaul at the bottleneck, but that might not mean anything.

Anyway, it's not a big deal but would have been fun to watch the battle.

Don't know, why I asked if you had the RSRD patch installed. I missed it for awhile and my traffic layers were screwed up until I installed it. Something doesn't sound right, you running any other mods, list them and we can see if anything is up.

RFB_2.0
RFB_2.0_Patch1
RSRDC_RFB_V575
RSRDC_V5xx_Patch1

That's it in order.

Looks good to me....guess RFB changes it or it's just getting by you somehow..Lurker stated once he didn't change historical dates for battles, but who knows.

Well, there are other battles...Try Leyte Gulf, you can't miss that one.

SAme issue. I spent all night last night preparing for this battle today :)

I got to the location and NOTHING! I had TC stop me at 8, but no contacts either..

I stayed till the 13th and nothing but "PLANES"

Im using TMO as well..

If you're running RSRD, if you're at the right place, right time Aug. 9, 1942. You can't miss it.

SS says right after Midnight, so it's early Aug 9. If you were there Aug 9 at night, you'll miss it.
Best just get there Aug 8th and wait.

Either the 7th or 8th, a large allied convoy and TF will show up east of Savo, the TF will head up near Savo, the convoy more west at GC.

If RSRD is set up correctly, it's there. It's not like it changes or they change their mind, it will always show up. I believe you're running RSRD.

Yep running rsrd, and i was there on aug 1st till the 15th.. Nothing but planes

If you know you were there, you either missed it or your RSRD install is messed up.