I have the same issue and have also stopped playing for now. My first "cursed" unit is also usually a general. It's definiitely a code problem. CA has acknowledged it as such and is working to address it. These kinds of crashes happened a lot more often at release. The first patch took care of the cause of several of them (read the patch notes), but there are still a few of these bugs left to squash. I inevitably run into a situation where:
- one of my units will become cursed, and if I try to move him, the game will crash
- something happens with the AI nations (perhaps one of their units gets cursed), such that, during the AI turns when all the national flags flip by at the top of the screen, the game will crash when a certain flag appears.

I'm reasonably certain it's got nothing to do with hardware since two people with identical hardware may or may not have the problem, and that it's very clear that there's something with a particular unit that will cause the crash, since, if you can avoid the unit(s), the game will continue to run fine.
Mine usually start with a general or some other named unit. Sometimes I can isolate the unit and just ignore it, moving every other unit out of their stack and continuing on, but it seems like the number of cursed units increases significantly after the first one appears, so that soon you've got half a dozen units on the map you can't touch or you'll CTD.

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