Feinder
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I'd suggest playing at least a month or so (of game time) against the AI before tackling PBEM. First off, if you haven't gotten the game yet (seems so), your head will explode when you see the detail. After you finished scraping the grey-matter off the walls, your next phase is the "OMG, how can I handle all of this! My head has exploded already, and... Awe crap, there it goes again..."
Ker-splat.
So that's why playing for a month or so vs. the AI is a good thing. You'll get some (very) basic understanding of the game.
When you -do- take the plunge to PBEM, post that you're new.
A benefit of going against another new player is that, you both really have no idea what you're doing, and you can make mistakes together (you will many times say, "Holy shiznit, I never knew you could even do that!" - and chances are, your oppenent just happend upon it by accident a turn ahead of you). The bad thing about playing a new player is, in the inevitable inital carrier battle, somebody is usually get completely clobbered, and new player is tempted to walk because they think the game hopeless. It's not, but that doesn't stop a lot of folks from doing so.
Playing a more experienced player guarentees that you're going to get killed. The benefit is that, you're going to lear alot, so the next time game you play you'll be so much the wiser (most folks have 2 or 3, or more games going concurrently). A more experienced player is also less likely to throw his hands up and walk away.
Since you seem to be waiting for the game to arrive, amuse yourself by reading some of the AARs. You can get a reasonable feel of what to expect by seeing some of the longer running games. Some read more like a book (Hibiki), with a limited scope of the war; some are simply a good read and are great reference points for strategy, and some are just down-right hilarious (Eternity). And in my own AAR vs Bilbow - I won an initial CV battle that many would have written the game off as over; except that 6 months later he kicked my butt in a similar Midway type encouter, and the game really is "anyone's ball-game" at this point. So even when you're sure you've lost, hang in there. If anything you'll learn more of "what not to do".
Welcome aboard (pre-emptively),
-F-
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Another newbie question: How does PBEM work exactly? - 
Japan player starts the game....enters the password he wants to use (cap-sensitive). For non-historic, Japan player does moves...executes turn and save to a slot (ex.: slot 10). Japan player emails save slot 10 to Allied player. Allied player loads slot 10....enters password....does move....executes turn and saves to slot 10....emails slot 10 to japan player. Japan player load slot 10....combat starts....Japan player does moves....executes and save to slot 10.....email slot 10 and slot 001 (combat replay) (and I would suggest the combat report.txt, also) to Allied player. Allied player loads and watches slot 001....loads slot 10....does move....executes and save to slot 10...email slot 10 (only) to japan player.......etc. 
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