My steps were:
1/ Install VCMI from Play
2/ Run VCMI (it created no dir)
3/ Run VCMI again (it created the app-data/eu.vcmi)
4/ Copied only the Data folder into it (I assumed wrong, I know now)
5/ Run VCMI, I see the main screen, but it crashes when trying to start a game.
6/ Copy all files into app-data
7/ Fails with an error "cannot create file Config/… something, sorry I dont rememebr"
8/ I delete Config dir
9/ Run VCMI, it writes config file OK but crashes again.
Error:
Cannot open /sdcard/app-data/eu.vcmi/config/settings.txt
…
Loading .lod files: 651
Reading OBJNAMES
Reading …
Reading CRGN4
General text handler: 39
At line 1, position 0 error: Unexpected end of file!
and the rest is garbage.