Quote Originally Posted by bovi
The patch is generally incompatible with older savegames. It might work with old saves to a degree, but weird stuff like that may happen, as may CTDs. I suggest you install 0.8 again to finish up your campaign, or - a lot better IMO - start a new campaign in 0.81. Don't forget to delete map.rwm before you do start!
Have the recruitable mercinary Gaesatae been completely removed though?

I will just install a fresh EB version 8.1.

Sigh, I was really enjoying that campaign too.