OK Guys - Listen up. I am 99% certain that this sprite problem is causing the pre-Battle CTDs we've been experiencing! So if you make both of the changes above, that will help prevent these occurrences.

BUT. There are probably others with the same problem. So until we can be certain that all have been found, this bug may continue to exist. Now the good news is that all the new sprites appear in the data/sprites folder. The bad news is there are 5 subfolders (aedui, arverni, rebel, merc, & sweboz) and they are chock full of new sprites - and simply looking in them won't tell you if something is missing. THAT requires a check, sprite-by-sprite, of all the unit entries in describe_model_battle.txt (DMB) in order to confirm they are located where indicated. Gahhh. So until that is finished, if you guys could hunt around these boards and post links to all the reported pre-battle CTD's I'd appreciate it (that will also help in case we find some, god forbid, which can't be linked to sprites).

When you find these, please do one more thing. Ask the posters to go back and look in their save games in order to give us EXACTLY which units were in the opposing armies. Thanks guys!