It crashes regardless of whether I'm near it, or on the other side of the map.
Playthrough 1: 1.12, found a unit like this, only turned on the cheat menu to teleport around when it started crashing to try to find the cause
Playthrough 2: 1.2, edited gold and stats to match previous playthrough, never found a glitched unit
Playthrough 3: 1.3, edited gold and stats like before, never found the glitched unit
Playthrough 4: no cheats, till I turned them on to find the unit. Found the glitched unit (the above screenshot)
In all playthroughs, the crash was the same though. In the 1.12, it would crash whenever I spoke to the unit, or it reached it's destination. In the most recent playthrough, I could talk to it (see my first screenshots), but the dialogue options, would be obviously glitched, as well as show my character model, and name, in place of the npc's