I have a save with them in my group; but not the turn that resulted them in being in my group. Unfortunately I've had so many crashes I started saving before just about each 'big' fight and blew away the save before thinking about it. I probably get crashes due to reloads but not sure - just speculation since no one else seem to be complaining about crashes; but at least one crash was without any saves (I think the dx error; i enter a city with about 15 defenders (didn't count so might be off) and a hero in the middle was trying to move and couldn't.

I just had a similar experience on .992 and updated your original thread with a screen cap and my saved game.