Well, it's December 1940 and I'm in my ninth patrol (first one after upgrading to my new Type IXB), and I finally spot my first real convoy of this entire career (I have encountered a couple of pairs of ships, but that's not the same). It's a real beauty spread out across the horizon with only 2 apparent escorts, with me waiting smack in front of them about 10,000m away. It was getting a little too late last night to start such a battle so I decided to save the game and start the attack tonight.
Practically drooling in anticipation, I start loading up the saved game and WHAM - CTD
Hoping it was a freak one-off, I rebooted and tried again, same thing - CTD
So, apparently, I'm not gonna get to clobber this convoy after all
IIRC I've seen some posts around here a while back about not being able to load saved games - this is the first time it's happened to me in a year of playing, so I didn't pay much attention to them then - maybe if I can find those threads I can figure out how to fix it without trashing this patrol or career. Anybody got any ideas for fixes?