If I'm not mistaken (BB please correct me) Task forces are scripted in GWX, and SH3 has a bug stock one and unfixable when saving in the vicinity of a scripted unit (30 km) the scriped units lost all of their waypoints, resulting in unpredictable behaviour, my first crash in SH3 (stock version) was after sinking half of a convoy and saving when the dds where hunting me, I lost the entire career
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