xCIintBeastwood
Recruit
I have the exact same issue. I've been no lifing this game too. I lost my 33hour long western empire playthrough because of this. It happened right after the patch earlier today for me. The odd thing was, it actually let me into my campaign at first. I knew something in my game was absolutely wrecked though because my emperor declared war on himself! After that, any new save I made wouldn't allow me to load. I could continue loading my 1 save, but the other 5 were crashing every time.