Japanese enter from the north end of the map trying to take the village and trail as far as possible in 20 turns. Australians set up with 5 Infantry, 2 HMGs and 3 leaders on board in or around the village and another similar group enter from the south. The northern group of Australians held the village for 6 turns before falling back to avoid being surrounded, which gave the reinforcements time to get up the trail and fan out to extend a defensive line to either side of the trail. Both sides took turns exchanging casualties, but the Australians got the worst of it as they kept the Japanese from getting much past the middle of the board. The Japanese that did manage to flank the defenders got bogged down in assaults and didn't get into contact with the trail. Several Australians managed to maintain their strength to the last, even doing step losses and demoralizations to larger forces of Japanese infantry in assault, even after losing their leaders. In the end, Australia lost 12 steps and 2 leaders and Japan lost 7 steps and no leaders, but there were many units on the board in rough shape that would not be moving any time soon. With a couple of trail hexes contested in assault, the Australians controlled 9 to the Japanese control of 12 more, so a victory point total of 24 for Japan to 16 for Australia, leading to a minor Japanese victory. With a bit different results in several attacks, it could easily have gone the other way.