All this game's issues with menus/font rendering seem to be fixed and
working wrt wine-1.1.31 -- you will need winetricks to install corefonts,
directx runtime and vcrun6 into wine before installing the game itself,
but that's it really - the game then installs and runs correctly.
Hopefully, some future release of crossover-games will pull in changes
from the latest devel wine branches, then this title should start to
work 'as expected' in COG.