Repetetive Attacking Sabaens > CTD

[Tellos Athenaios]

The title says it all. In my current campaign, I'm at war with the Sabeans and whenever I attack one of their two armies outside their towns it withdraws. No problem there, but whenever I decide to pursue and attack the same army a second time the game CTD's before the battle loading screen even pops up. So, as long as I keep attacking each army only once each turn I can keep playing, but when I feel like rounding it off, I stand no chance. It is not influenced by the EBBS script, for I have tried a couple of times with script activated and a couple of times without - and the problem persists anyway. Nor is it due to some sepcial strat map textures, for the area in which I attack them/ they withdraw to contains none of the kind.

Is there someone out there who could enlighten me (further) in this matter?

[Tellos Athenaios]

I've solved the matter by battering the Sabaens into submission (they're a protectorate now), but still:

Someone out there who has a clue as to what was causing it?