Instant Saba CTD

**Kugutsu** · 12-30-2006, 20:31

Saba have just declared war on me for the first time. Now whenever I attack them or they attack me, I get a CTD. Its totally repeatable, as it has happened 6 times in a row now. It crashes the minute you try to attack, before the pre-battle screen pops up. I tried with all the Saba armies in sight:

The only thing the three have in common is pantopodoi, but I have faced those many times with the Seleukids to no effect.

I have also attacked the Seleukids, Ptolies and Epirots to see if that did anything, and there was no crash. It seems to only happen with the Saba.
Is there anything I can do to find out why this is happening?
And if its not fixable, is there any way to stop them ever attacking me? (obviously I can not attack them, but it crashes both ways).

**Moros** · 12-30-2006, 21:20

Can you autoresolve battles? Then you can use the auto_win defender/attacker cheat...

**Kugutsu** · 12-30-2006, 21:22

nah, it crashes before the pre-battle screen. the minute I right click on the enemy to move my army there it crashes.

**Tellos Athenaios** · 12-30-2006, 22:28

Hey, did I recognise myself in the picture? By any chance, have you attacked them multiple times in a row? Like I described in this thread?

**Kugutsu** · 12-30-2006, 22:38

nope. I have tried attacking various armies, on consecutive turns with different armies of mine. I did read your thread, but mine seems to be ongoing. It even crashes when they attack me.

Question: If I make them a protectorate, does that prevent them from attacking me? Cos I could try bribing them with vast quantities of gold (although they wouldnt accept a million, so I will have to cheat to get enough...). Its very frustrating, as I am now their only neighbour, so they have no one else to attack but me.

**MarcusAureliusAntoninus** · 12-30-2006, 23:03

I've had a similar CTD. I was besieging a Sabaen town and when I went to attack it, I got a CTD when I hit the little attack sword in the "continue siege/attack/lift seige" option.

**Tellos Athenaios** · 12-31-2006, 01:46

Originally Posted by Kugutsu

Question: If I make them a protectorate, does that prevent them from attacking me? Cos I could try bribing them with vast quantities of gold (although they wouldnt accept a million, so I will have to cheat to get enough...). Its very frustrating, as I am now their only neighbour, so they have no one else to attack but me.

Well, I have solved the issue by battering them into submission, they're now a protectorate of the mighty Seleukid empire!

They are now a quiet, peacefull protectorate

adding each turn the exact amount of 0 Mnai to my treasury... (The same counts for the Saka, they too are a protectorate of mine, and they too add nothing to my treasury.)

Too bad that you can't even have them attack you, or attack them at least once: weird that that didn't happen to me.

Well, if you can't beat them with swords, you've got to try words instead I suppose. Good luck!

PS, if you siege all their towns and place decent forces as obstacles in the way of any 'relief' force; that will build up enough pression to make them sue for peace, and then you could propose them to become your protectorate quite succesfully.

**fish** · 01-16-2007, 00:50

Hi, I've had the exact same problem, instant CDT whenever I attempted to battle the Saba. I tried the recommended fix, but it doesn't seem to work for me. Double checked, of course. Any ideas?

My bad, I looked into the RTW\Data\text folder rather than EB\Data\text. Will tripple check in future before making a fool of myself. My apologies, and thanks for the fix!