Good day...or night, I guess that depends. In anycase, wanted to point out that the mission for the Byzantines to recover Antioch always crashes.
Made multiple tests to isolate that it was in fact VeF that causes it.

VEF: Played enough and managed to reach antioch, when I click on the option to finish the mission "recover antioch" the game, unfortunately, CTD.

Vanilla: I launched the game and used console commands to conquer, convert and get the necessary pre reqs to get to antioch. IN vanilla the mission works just fine and doesn't CTD.

I thought it may have been the save that its bugged? So unsubscribed and redownloaded the mod, launched a brand new campaign with the BYZ. I used console commands to, again, gain the necessary pre reqs and once again, when pressing the mission button, the game CTD.

Hopefully you can help me, or fix it in the future.