Newbie PBEM question

[JJ_Colorado]

Hi,

A friend (Steve) and I recently each bought this game. We would like to play a PBEM game (just the two of us) against a bunch of AI opponents. I'm not quite clear on how to do this. I read the FAQ and searched the forum but some things are still unclear. Can someone help?

Here is what I think I know. Assume that I will "host" the game:
1) Steve creates a pretender and sends his "man.2h" file from the "newgods" folder to me.
2) I put the "man.2h" file from Steve into my "newgods" folder, overwriting any currently created pretender from for man.
3) I create my Abysian pretender, thus creating an "Abysia.2h" file in my "newgods" folder.
4) I create a new game with Man and Abysia set to Human and some other races set to AI.

Now what? This is where I'm not sure about what to do next.

Thanks!
John