Problem with EA'42 Volcano Mod

[Radetzky]

gents

i just installed El Alamein 1.03 for the third time and the game
still keeps crashing to desktop after a few minutes of play.
to make things worse, this happens only after i added
Volcano's excellent art pack. it seems the .exe file causes
the game to crash but i can't imagine why that is - every
other HPS title i own runs fine with any mod i've installed.
i'll try to gather more information on this annoying bug but maybe
i'm not the only one having experienced this kind of trouble?

any help welcome,

good gaming
jan