Did you get the 'kingdoms.exe not found' message? The ancient way of fixing that was to use a DLC directory as you describe. The latest, and way more...
In my game it happened that trying to recruit AOR units in Corsica caused an immediate CTD, just click on the AOR unit in the recruitment tab -> CTD....
Because the Romans are White colonizers except when they are Blaque. Kinda crazy how they are even getting White people to say all this stuff in this...
I've added numerous changes to the map, removed the old unit models and added my own with different upgrade variations and lots of other things (some...