The Japanese are entering from the north and want to push the Australians out of the village and kill as many of them as they can. When on turn 6, an Australian stack rolled a 12 DF against the stack with the Japanese LTC, I thought things would go their way. A step loss, and everything else in the Japanese hex failed morale so they sat there demoralized. Half of the remaining Japanese leaders failed their own rolls under the decapitation rules, and lost the rest of their turns. On turn 7, another Australian DF roll gave the rest of the Japanese in that stack the opportunity to fail another morale check. 2 more steps lost. Alas, the Australian HMG in the firing stack failed his low ammo roll and became a rifle platoon. That sort of spelled the end for the Australians, who tried to do a fighting withdrawal, but as they took casualties and the Japanese won the initiative in bigger and bigger ways, the Japanese managed to keep up and assault again and again. The Australians kept backing out from assaults but usually with a step loss in the process. The Japanese force that was trying to flank the Australians never did manage to get ahead of them. In the end, the Japanese stalled with a diminished Australian force, both sides doing little or no further damage in the last Japanese assaults. In the end, the Japanese won with 18 points against a score of only 3 for the Australians.