SC: Novice Level question

[SirWilliam]

Finally got the game working, set everything to novice with all stations auto crew. I'm finding that, at least in the initial campaign mission, it is impossible for the sonar auto crew to ID targets or even to display on the map where they are consistently, they can just jump back and forth to positions 10k yards apart and even when the voice suddenly says "Mission cannot be completed" because I'm too close to one of the FFG's, they never even show up anywhere near 8k yards. Even when visually looking at something in the periscope it can suddenly change to something else altogether I'm finding. Is this normal for this game?

Is the game just unplayable with auto sonar crew? If so this isn't the game for me, I didn't want the game "Sonarman" heh, there's a reason they have special schools for that rate!

-SW