Okay, first let me say this is another scenario (I also recently finished 9) where the Japanese have little to do but roll dice. They are in entrenchments waiting for the Marines. There is very little maneuver for them. In fact, there's not a tremendous amount for the Marines, either. Solitaire, it wasn't bad, as a 2 player game I'd probably give it a 2 rating.

The Japanese had their 2 entrenchments at the top of the 80 meter hill with 2 HMGs and an infantry platoon, with another HMG and infantry platoon in an entrenchment near it, and the remaining HMG and INF dug in behind the hill. Early on, I reinforced the entrenchment with only 2 units with another INF platoon. In retrospect I should have set it up with 3 units in each entrenchment. The uphill and entrenchment modifiers easily cancel out the penalty for 3 units in a hex.

The Marines sent one force right up the gut, and one to flank, and put the 2 HMGs in the town where they could rake the lower entrenchment. The Japanese started taking 16 and 11 shots at the Marines, and while they weren't really killing anything, they were keeping enough units disrupted to prevent assaults, because the Japanese advantages in being uphill, Japanese and entrenched (first fire) would shred any weak attack. The Marines did catch up to the last HMG and assaulted it, although it hung tough for several turns before breaking and losing a step when it fled. Eventually the Marines assaulted one of the entrenchments, getting the entire group disrupted for their troubles. The next turn the assault went worse, and the Japanese actually counter attacked out of the entrenchments. Trn 11 marked the end as the Marines lost 5 steps between bloody assaults and a 12 against 3 units which were setting up to assault the other entrenchment.

In the end, the Marines lost 7 steps, the Japanese 2. The Japanese held on to both entrenchments for an easy win.