Skipping scenario 16 for the moment, I got this short 9-turn fight on the table today. Japanese enter from the north and need to take a specified route of trail hexes while eliminating as many Australians as possible, the Australians need to hang on to those trail hexes and eliminate more Japanese units. Looked simple. Australians defend forward and lock up the Japanese as much as possible, giving ground grudgingly while depending on their marksmanship and nearly equal morale to survive long enough to keep trail hexes and kill Japanese units. Japanese enter, the Major, a Captain and 2 LTs in 3 stacks taking advantage of chain of command and moving south down the trail, while the rest, a Captain and 2 LTs enter in line further east and slog through the jungle to flank the Australian defenders and take trail hexes with little or no contest. Australian luck failed them for the most part and Japanese plans worked well. The forward defense got hung up immediately with assaults and failed time after time to do any damage in DF but disrupting assaults while taking occasional casualties. The Australian commander and 2 infantry units were holding the one village hex to the rear, thinking to act as a stop gap to anything that got through the forward defense, but the Japanese line got to the trail before him and started taking hex after hex. On turn 8, the LTC and his men valiantly threw themselves into an assault, trying to keep the last trail hex in friendly hands, but he died when the Japanese got a 2X result followed by a 2 result for leader loss. His surviving troops died on the final turn to another 2X result that cleared all but one contested hex, which fell in a last turn of assault, with another leader loss taking the LT after the single HMG step he still lead died. Japanese held the entire trail and took 6 steps of Australians in the process to only 2 steps of Japanese who died for thier emporer. Great little game.