Nope. What worked was deleting my steamapps\common\Civ V\ folder and redownloading everything. idk what I changed but it must have been something. Will post first impressions after my game!
Edit: regarding crashes: it took me a really long time to figure out that if you spawn Barbarian Cities on the map, there are two bugs in the DLL that will crash the game unless you address them:
-CvStrategyAI.cpp : Altered CityStrategyAIHelpers::IsTestCityStrategy_GoodAirliftCity to return if Player is Barbarian to prevent crash (Barb have no Capital)
-CvReligionClasses.cpp : Altered CvGameReligions:

oPlayerTurn "& kPlayer.GetCurrentEra() < GC.getInfoTypeForString("ERA_INDUSTRIAL")" -> && kPlayer.GetID() != 63)
Cleaning these up in my own mod went a long way towards stability.
Edit 2: Played a lot, got to Info Era as Egypt. Had a blast! Felt very dynamic, and the Collapse mechanic really makes it feel like the civs are splintering into sub-civs.
I couldn't take the BNW tech tree, so I deleted techs.xml and techtree.lua and used Stones to Stars, which was perfectly compatible. Similarly I just had to change one line in all of Empires Ascendant to get it to be compatible.
Crashed once, not sure if catapult or my own mods. Nothing obvious in any logs or vs crash dump.
My Settlers seemed to get stuck, and I was unable to settle more than three cities because my settler units were denied movement.
Atilla made peace with me? Was that supposed to happen?
It would be very easy to make a simple edit to the gandhi model to remove his glasses if you want to make him look more modern. In that note, idk if you know, but there are around 20 3d leaderscreens that exist in the community, some of which are quite good.
Will play and report more soon.
