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[The_Hawk]

Playing last night, I set up a ballista (in the hopes of using it to kill my dragon neighbor), and then saved and backed up my save.  At the time, my siege operator, a carpenter, was going to get the ballista arrow and load it.  Later, my dwarves fired the ballista arrow at nothing, so, annoyed, I reverted to the old save and went to bed.

Today, I loaded up the game.  Knowing from last night that my siege operator would decide to sleep before finishing the loading process, I jumped to the next step and designated another guy to be a siege engineer and siege operator (and nothing else), without stopping the carpenter/operator from doing his thing.  About a minute later, I had a crash to desktop.

Reloaded, tried the same thing again, and got the same result.  Loaded a third time, and didn't designate the other guy to be a siege engineer or siege operator; this time, I haven't seen any problems.  What I suspect is that for some reason multiple siege operators try to load the same ballista arrow into an unloaded ballista at the same time, and this results in the crash.

Save available upon request.  

[The_Hawk]

And then, just to embarass me, ten seconds later the game crashes anyway.  So maybe it's something else entirely.  Ballista arrow construction, maybe?

[Toady One]

I'll be able to tell you when I get the save!  It could be any number of things.  Send!  Send!