Combat Commander, Vol II: Coral Sea.

1. When you start a new game, you must choose a side or "Solo" if you wish to play solitaire. There is more solitaire information below.

2. Before doing anything else, set Preferences under the File menu item. The following items (except password) are under the General sub-menu.

· Choose a password if you have not already. Do not change it once you start a game.

· If you trust your opponent and are playing by email, you might enable "opponents can unmask my pieces." This lets your opponent reveal your blocks in case you forget.

· Enable "Mark Moved Pieces" if you want to track which units you or your opponent moved.

· I like to enable "Moving stacks should pick up non-moving pieces." It means when you put units on a stack, they automatically create a new stack.

3. Every card or piece in a Vassal module has its own command menu. You see it if you hold the cursor over the object and click your right-mouse button.

Initiative chits and Operation chits.

4. Each player's initiative chit is located in his respective "hand" window, which cannot be seen by the other player. Instead of a double-sided chit, there are two different chits. After you select the one that you want ("map" or "cards"), then mask it (right click and select "Mask") and place it on the board for the reveal stage.

5. Each player has a copy of the operation chit in his "hand" window. This is double-sided, so when the player places it in the map area that he wishes to activate, he can flip it to the correct side to show if the operation is a land or sea operation.

6. If the player right-clicks on the chit, he can return the initiative or operation chit to his hand.

Working with the card deck

7. When drawing cards, open your "hand" window and drag the card from the top of the deck to your hand window. Your opponent cannot view this window.

8. If you discard a card in order to take a resource point, right click on the card and select "Discard." It will send the card to the discard deck, where it will remain upside down so your opponent does not know which card you discarded.

9. The draw deck is always shuffled.

10. Each player has a card that allows him to search his deck. If you play this card, then right-click on your draw deck and send it to the "Select-A-Card" deck which is located in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. From there, right-click on the card, select the card that you wish to take and drag it to your hand. Then right-click and send your cards back to your draw deck.

Combat chits

11. Each player has a specific combat chits window. The window can be viewed by either player. The left side of the window shows the land battle chits and the right side of the window shows the naval battle chits. This window also displays the requirements necessary to add a combat chit to the cup (example: an LS naval unit is required to use the "Torpedoes" chits), as well as the number of each type of chit.

12. Each player also has a specific cup that only he can view.

13. During combat, open up "Chit cup" window and place the correct combat chits in your respective cup by placing them on the logo of the box cover on the side of the cup. When you draw them out of the cup, they come out masked. To unmask them, right-click and select the "Mask / Unmask" option.

14. After combat has completed, right click on the chits in the cup and select "Draw Multiple Cards" and select a number larger than the number of chits (ex: 50) and pull them to the board. Then right-click on the stack and select "To Chit Window" and all go to the Combat Chit Window in their respective locations.

Victory Points Track

1. The Victory Points Track is a quick way for both players to tell how the game stands at any point, by adjusting his marker on the track. It was not part of the original game, which explains the homemade graphics. I also added the numbers to the Victory Points control panel on the board because they are not easy to see on the screen. Sorry, graphic design is not my forte.