i have used Jiaozhou faction and the game crashed afterthe 16th turn.i tested out again with another faction (Ma Teng) and it crashed again on the 14th turn.
05:53:29.817 [system.rpt] [always] CPU: SSE2
05:53:29.817 [system.rpt] [always] ==== system log start, build date: Aug 3 2007 version bld-medieval2-kingdoms-104 (45562) ===
05:53:29.865 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_0.pack
05:53:29.901 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_1.pack
05:53:29.930 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_2.pack
05:53:29.957 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_3.pack
05:53:30.028 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_4.pack
05:53:30.068 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/localized.pack
05:57:40.004 [script.err] [error] Script Error in mods/rotk/data/world/maps/campaign/imperial_campaign/descr_strat.txt, at line 3779, column 64
you have chosen an invalid tile(47, 146) for M-28-0085-Xm (norway)
05:57:43.092 [script.err] [error] Script Error in mods/rotk/data/world/maps/campaign/imperial_campaign/descr_strat.txt, at line 6806, column 137
you have chosen an invalid tile(19, 153) for Han-Xiandi (sicily)
05:57:43.112 [script.err] [error] Script Error in mods/rotk/data/world/maps/campaign/imperial_campaign/descr_strat.txt, at line 6812, column 129
you have chosen an invalid tile(18, 151) for J-1107-ZhongYao (sicily)
05:57:43.125 [script.err] [error] Script Error in mods/rotk/data/world/maps/campaign/imperial_campaign/descr_strat.txt, at line 6817, column 127
you have chosen an invalid tile(19, 152) for J-1106-YangXiu (sicily)
06:00:04.475 [game.script] [always] Germanicu5 ReallyBadAI v5.7 Running. Please upload log and savegames when reporting battle CTDs for SS.
06:00:05.730 [game.script] [always] Turn Start england
06:07:44.223 [system.rpt] [error] Uh oh. This isn't good. No idea why, but exiting now. Sorry pal.