I have included the save game. I load it, I have 3 active stacks, I give them all orders and they march off, then I hit next turn, the turn processes, I reach my next turn, I finish my research and get the breakthrough dialog box, then the program crashes. Windows 7 Professional, 64 bit. I've put the files here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17772198/Elemental1_1-2010-12-31T23-40-40-6
Ok, I've figured it out, at least in my case. It appears I had loaded an old saved game (from before the 1.08 and patches) to look around. Based on something else I read on the forums, I decided to close the program, and then start a new game without loading any of my old games. The new Sov I created works just fine now. Don't know if that helps anybody else.
I created a Sov last night, I'm seeing the same problem, all spells miss. All the spells of her children and imbued champions miss. "Spells" from monsters hit quite nicely. Doesn't seem to matter whether I have shards or not. Intelligence 15+ (depends on the hero), I can't even hit a wolf or a bear. I spend a lot of time casting Deflect and Heal, cuz nothing offensive works. I just checked impulse, no updates available, should I be checking for beta updat