Thank you to VPaulus for a quick, and an unerring solution. I can not help but be reminded of Occam's Razor. I can only hope that others may come here in the future, and find this solution.

While playing Time of Fury, version 1.06, through Steam, when the game was switching from AI opponents to the active German player, all units have blinked, and then permanently disappeared. Changing the unit sprites, and changing the map backgrounds in Preferences has yielded no results. Uninstallin...