ko2fan, can confirm, the game crashing when choosing autoresolve for the air battle is with Wine v1.7.19.
It has meanwhile been updated to v1.7.20 but I haven't tried that yet. I may give the game another whirl tonight. Would it be helpful for you to have the crash report?
I will download the .deb package tonight and give the game with the Wine version included by you guys a try and see if that works better.