Conquest mode does not load, crashes the game

when i try and start conquest i get the following error in a text box
Invalid char " at position 0

Called from haxe.Unserializer.unserialize (D:\projects\shiroTools\haxe\std/haxe/Unserializer.hx line 460)
Called from haxe.$Unserializer.run (D:\projects\shiroTools\haxe\std/haxe/Unserializer.hx line 471)
Called from $NGSave.loadData (NGSave.hx line 29)
Called from $NGSave.load (NGSave.hx line 47)
Called from $ConquestFile.load (ConquestFile.hx line 61)
Called from $ConquestFile.load (ConquestFile.hx line 60)
Called from $ConquestFile.getAllSaves (ConquestFile.hx line 36)
Called from $HConquest.getConquestSaves (HConquest.hx line 241)
Called from $HConquest.getConquestSave (HConquest.hx line 232)
Called from ui.menus.conquest.ConquestMenu.initContent (ui/menus/conquest/ConquestMenu.hx line 115)
Called from ui.menus.IMenu.init (ui/menus/IMenu.hx line 97)
Called from ui.menus.IMenu.rebuild (ui/menus/IMenu.hx line 158)
Called from ui.menus.IMenuManager.changeMenu (ui/menus/IMenuManager.hx