by JoelCFC25 » January 9th, 2020, 1:16 am
VASSAL comes with a User's Guide. Look for it in the Help menu after launching the application--it has a section on PBEM play.
Generally, you'd open a module, choose a scenario, select your player side, and then start recording a logfile for your moves. This is sent to the opponent, who opens the logfile, plays it back to review what happened, then records his own logfile. Players merely exchange logfiles back and forth. Unlike Cyberboard, there is no need to keep a saved game file in addition to logs.