[Wine] Re: Victoria II Play Failure - Encountered Serious Problems. . .

[DanKegel]

To work around http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24422, I had to do
winetricks d3dx9_36

To work around http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24217 , I had to do
winetricks dsoundbug9612

Try those and see if it helps.