Venetian heavy infantry CTD

[Paladin247]

Have been playing M2TW happily since it came out, but previously as the English. After conquering the world twice as the Brits, thought I would try something that looked more challenging and started a game as Venice. It has been a lot harder. All went well technically until around 1231. I bought my first unit of Venetian heavy infantry, and the first battle that I put them in, got a CTD before getting to the battle map. The message was the usual, "M2TW has encountered a problem and will now close."
Thereafter, spent a lot of hours seaching for drivers, viruses, you name it. After much fruitless troubleshooting, I went back into the game. Gave the new heavy infantry units their discharge papers, and bingo; back in business. Just thought this might do someone else some good.

[zowrath]

It has to do with battle_models.modeldb file if you are using 1.2 patch. Download the formatted one from this website, you'll find it. Put it in your install dir under data in a folder called unit_models Make it if it is not there. And start the game with the --io.file_first argument in the shortcut. It should fix your problems.