I had same problem. It was disappearing (but only for a while) after pushing several times the "ignore" button. Never happened after applying the patch. Are you using version 1.1 ?

<t> Lets stick to reality, in your way maybe not 30, but for sure 40 or 50 english ships could blockade 80 french ships in Brest with a good chance of beating them if they would try to exit port without wind favor. Historically this is not very accurate, with wind in their favor the french would go ...

<t> The easiest way has always the big advantage of being the easiest way, even when it is not the best way. Anyway this would make to easy for small forces to blockade large fleets in port and it could unbalance all naval warfare in the game. But you are right, there are already so many random ...

<t> Please consider that for obvious reasons the blockaded fleet could try to leave port and fight only if and when wind was in favor. The blockading fleet would in fact generally not stay very close to port leaving the surveillance to light ships that anyway had to stay out of reach of the port ...

<t> The point is not to use the last saved file or autosave you used when the game crashed , but the previous most recent one (there should be maximum ten to chose from). If you keep trying loading the same corrupted file it will always give you CTDs, maybe not at the first battle or the second but ...

<t> Maybe someone has already found a way to continue a campaign compromised by repeated crashes, but, for those who didn't, I feel it could be usefull to share what seems to work everytime at least in my experience.<br/>
I have been playing the game since the first day it came out and I'm quite ...