The Japanese set up in the village and on the north-south trail to slow the Aussie advance. The Aussies entered the board on the eastern edge in order to use the jungle to gain as much cover as possible while trying to advance to the trail. As they slowly moved south, the Japanese platoons in the village used the trail to cut off the Aussie advance while the other Japanese units approached the Aussies in the jungle from the west. The two sides met a couple hexes north of the road. The Aussie HMG's were effective and eliminated a half dozen Japanese steps. One of the full strength Japanese stacks was very effective in assaults and eliminated a number of Aussie steps. The Aussies were able to survive lots of opportunity fire to move their platoons onto the trail by games end and secure an 16-8 major victory. It was a fun, close scenario and I could easily see it going either way.