The Aussies had best get used to losing this scenario. There seems to be no chance for the two companies to successfully run the gauntlet of Japanese forces. I tried all sorts of tactical maneuvers and still lost every Aussie step. I was playing this as the first scenario of a KT campaign so the fact that the Aussie leaders all survived was a good thing. Obviously, in reality, the Australians would have been massively disorganized and fleeing the area but many would still have been alive at any rate. I get very little comfort from the thought...