Doc,

This savegame problem is very disappointing. I'm thinking about moving on to some other game at this point. You can't loose an RTW SP campaign game, and you don't even have to use diplomats, assassins or spys at all or ever look at character traits, offices or retinues. In comparision to that, I've played about 6 SP campaigns as Takeda using STWmod for MTW/VI on normal difficulty, and lost every one of them.