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The official Wing Commander movie club is BACK!... and for the record, we did find Showgirls pretty fascinating. But now we're back to movies that have been credited with inspiring Wing Commander and this week's film is a big one, at least visually: it's Firefox (1982). The legendary Clint...

It was Cobbs all along?! :D

Here's a case of escort duty you DO want to pull: AEdwardBaker is back with another fantastic piece of Wing Commander art! This one is called Exeter Escort and it shows a mighty Exeter battleship escorting the famed Tiger's Claw. Maybe it's the Formidable! You can find the original on DeiantArt...

What's in a name? One of the great, small innovations in Wing Commander II is that any ship can be assigned a custom name. The game's mission designers took great advantage of this, naming all sorts of background spacecraft… including 23 different human transports across the three campaigns! WC2...

Greetings WingNuts, The Wing Commander movie club is back from Hell in the Pacific and we were surprised by how interesting this movie we had never heard of before was! Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune are the only actors in the film, enemies unable to communicate abandoned on an island in the...

Mac is back with more lore! This time he's taking on the very complicated subject of the F-90 Hellcat V medium fighter, the middle-of-the-road ship that kicks off both Wing Commander III and Wing Commander IV "prepped, primed, loaded, locked and ready to kick some ass." As always, Mac has...

The cat is out of the bag… the WCAT, that is! AllTinker has released the first public beta of his monumental Wing Commander AllTinker overhaul mod! This is a patch for the original DOS version of Wing Commander that adds the speed limiter it has been missing all these years. This is a big, big...

Back in February when we watched Battle of Britain, people jokingly complained that they would rather watch Paul Verhoeven's disasterpiece Showgirls instead of another war movie. I responded that if we watched all four remaining war movies in the series then we could take a break from Wing...

Hehe there's actually this odd meta that evolved from Wing Commander Academy's marketing bullet points... for years it was classified as a "rescue game" by some prevalent SKU system out there because there was this specific language about picking up ejected pilots and escape pods...

Super cool! Welcome to the Wing Commander universe, we're happy to have you!

It's awesome work, thank you for making them!

For sure - a mission that generates 3 skill 4 Retros is going to pay more than one that generates 1 skill 2 Pirate and so on. Mission generated enemies aren't specifically different in Troy but the environment is nerfed so the random encounters are less dangerous (lower numbers, lower skill...

I don't think so, the idea that cloaking devices have expendable crystals doesn't show up until Wing Commander IV. The manual does explain the mining bases, though! The entire sector was built up to support the war effort... so the mining bases are where Confed is getting the durasteel to build...

What's the buzz? More Hornets! An artist named ulimann644 has built a new CG model of the Hornet and posted some wondeful compositions on DeviantArt. You can find a wonderful gallery of their other work here... and we can't wait to see what the next Wing Commander ship will be! F-36 Hornet...

I believe space itself is 3D but individual objects are 2D sprites (the engine is called 3Space!). I believe this is purely mission type, number of waypoints, number of enemies and number of jumps.

Greetings WingNuts, It's no secret that most of us love Star Trek and we generally felt that The Motion Picture is a film that becomes more and more compelling the older it gets. What was once decried as slow and moody now feels impressive and relevant. And it's really the only of the Star Trek...

Oh yeah, we talked about that during the screening! Really interesting that they chose this very intentional slow and steady throwback to 2001 in a movie that's coming in the wake of Star Wars being very fast.

This is a reminder that we have another fun #Wingnut movie night planned on Discord this evening! The ongoing theme will be movies that inspired Wing Commander in some way. Tonight's film is Star Trek: The Motion Picture which inspired the music in the original Wing Commander. You can find...

CountvonSchnaps has a whole fleet for you! They've continued their wonderful redesigns of classic Wing Commander ships with a trio of designs from the original game, the Scimitar, Hornet and the Tiger's Claw herself! These are so well done... a true artist's work! You can find more of their...