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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 pacific during World War II. They must go from deadly foes to reluctant friends in a compelling anti-war story with great acting and very meaningful cinematography. The end result is more like an overly-lush stage play than any of the epic war films we've seen in previous weeks… totally unexpected, to say the least!

While Hell in the Pacific was absolutely the prototype for Enemy Mine and at least three Star Trek episodes we could not find the Wing Commander connection. We're going to make the extremely rare claim that there isn't an apparent one. Chris Brown, VFX director on the Wing Commander movie, cited Hell in

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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… except this week in which the movie did not inspire Wing Commander in any way. Tonight's film is Showgirls and you can find details on why we're watching it in the announcement post here. You can find details on that as well as how to watch along with us in the announcement post here. The movie will start about 7 PM PST/10 PM EST but feel free to drop by and hang any time!

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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 created literally oodles of cool animation to show off the ship… and his fantastic presentation and serious treatment of Wing Commander's lore is already converting casual observerse to our universe! You can find the Hellcat video here (embedded below) and be sure to check out Mac's previous work here.

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An Imperial strike force has launched a surprise assault against the Archon Delaine's flagship, the Mictlan, in what many are calling a long-awaited act of retribution.
The offensive took place in the Beta-3 Tucani system, where Delaine is believed to have attended a gathering of notorious underworld figures. Witnesses reported intense fighting around the Mictlan, with Imperial vessels engaging both the pirate dreadnought and its escorts.
Casualty reports are unconfirmed, but several pirate affiliated ships were destroyed or forced to flee.
A brief statement from Emperor Arissa's spokesperson confirmed Imperial involvement:
"Let this serve as an answer to the provocations of August last year. Those who threaten the Emperor or her citizens will be dealt with using proportionate force."
The attack appears to be a response to Archon Delaine's boasts following previous assassination attempts on

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We've updated the Cockpit Reference to include the redrawn versions of the four original Wing Commander ships as they appeared in the Super NIntendo (SNES) port of the game! If you've only played one or the other, you might be surprised by how different the other looks beyond having distinct aspect ratios… the Scimitar's layout in particular is totally rearranged! We've put together a 'normal' and 'alarms active' version for each of the ships.

I also made some new notes about differences between the two platforms:

• The SNES version does not have damage states; your cockpit never sparks or scars, there are no exposed wire or scorched panel graphics.
• The hit indicators and the fuel warning lights are either non functional or removed entirely in the SNES version.
• The 'sides' of the Hornet cockpit aren't actually clear; you can't see the skybox through them.
• The afterburner speeds are significantly

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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 deal. The patch works on both actual hardware and in DOSBox which means that anyone, anywhere can finally play the original Wing Commander the way it was meant to be played. The project also adds a host of bug and even content fixes (no more Dart and Joker!) and adds support for 4-axis, 4-button joysticks... which means Wing Commander should play great with a controller! AllTinker writes:

The most critical thing it does is introduce game-wide sync-to-blank-based speed limiting. To do this properly required a huge number of code changes as many "scenes" in the game are coded slightly differently, requiring