The situation: in my recent Saba campaign, I've just made an invasion of Africa. The nearest Ptolemaic city (Ptolemais-Theron or something) is besieged by my feeble skirmisher army. The enemy, instead of coming running out to fight them, is waiting for backup, which arrives, even though it's not long before the city falls. On the very turn in which the battle will be fought that will decide the fate of my tiny empire's attempt at expansion, the Ptolemaic jerks deploy their most powerful weapon: the technical problem.

The problem: when the game tries to load the battle, the little loading bar stops moving and the whole thing just sits there and does nothing. Basically the game crashed, or refuses to load, or something. You have to alt-ctrl-delete to get out of it. It's a pisser.

The solution: is there a solution?