VMF 214's Worst Day - The Matrix Games version of Rising Sun

Based on the television series, "Blacksheep Squadron". The Island of Vella Lacava was a very strategic point in the Solomons. The airstrip there was of great value to the Americans, and a constant threat to the Japanese navy. Admiral Yamamoto of the Japanese Imperial Navy knew this. His plan was to send the largest force in the lower pacific to take the Solomon island chain, and put the American island hopping campaign to a screetching halt. As Yamamoto's fleet prepared for the new campaign, the islands were slowly being probed and prodded with retaliatory strikes by his elite SNLF troops based out of Yokosuka Naval base Near Yokohama, Japan. The Americans, through having gathered intelligence on the campaign, figured that the only way to stave off the fight was with superior air power. The navy was just too tied up to worry about some "tiny islands". Air power could not be used if they had to take off from enemy held strips, so therefore, it is essential that this island, (if you are the Blacksheep) be held at all cost. If you are the Japanese, The island holds great potential for the use of her aircraft, and will ruin the Americans dreams of Japanese defeat!