I just want to add that I always have CTD with this message.

Anyone out there???

So, I was able to figure out to post screenshot of this problem in the technical problems thread stickied above. You can see the full "Assertion Failure" message in that thread.

<r> Unfortunately, I have had significant problems with the game in Windows 10, which is a real shame. This is, without question, still the best Napoleonic Grand Strategy computer game of all time. Nothing else does what this game accomplishes, still after 11 years. So, fixing this for me would just ...

<t> Unfortunately, I have had significant problems with the game in Windows 10, which is a real shame. This is, without question, still the best Napoleonic Grand Strategy computer game of all time. Nothing else does what this game accomplishes, still after 11 years. So, fixing this for me would just ...