Admirals,
if you experience issues with starting a combat in the game, please make sure you have the latest VC Redistributables installed.
install Visual Studio 2015, 2017, 2019, and 2022 from the Microsoft website, both versions:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=msvc-160
https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/vc_redist.x86.exe
https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/vc_redist.x64.exe
If you still experience the problem, please post in this topic