100% reliable CTD. Playing as Maratha. Mughal spawned two separate fleets, one with a sloop, another with a brig. I build two sloops (in separate ports). I engage the enemy ships, as soon as the sails deploy, CTD. Every single time. I've tried engaging both (with one in range of the other. I've engaged single vs single, for both the enemy sloop or the enemy brig. I've cranked the graphics settings down to the lowest setting, as well as the highest (I run with the highest settings). No difference, CTD.

I have 1.3, with the hotfix (Steam says I'm up to date, current date is 7/10/09).

I have a savegame. If a Creative Assembly developer wants it, I can email it to them. It looks like it's around 14meg .zip-ed.

This bug is really annoying, since I prefer to fight my sea battles myself than autoresolve. I never had a crash while playing the Independance campaign, but i never used a sloop by itself in battle. I'll try using a brig in the future (or a 6th rate or better). Hopefully I'll actually be able to fight naval fights in this campaign.