Quick answer
Buy a vehicle when it solves an objective problem that infantry cannot solve quickly enough. Vehicles can move players, move supplies, apply firepower, break fortifications, or answer enemy armor, but they also concentrate cash risk in one asset.
What vehicle jobs exist?
| Vehicle job | Best use |
|---|---|
| Ground transport | Move players from spawn or rear routes into useful positions. |
| Helicopter transport | Cross distance, shift squads, or move supplies when roads are unsafe or slow. |
| Armor | Push through exposed ground, pressure fortifications, or hold a route. |
| Artillery support | Threaten built positions or clustered enemies when spotting and timing are available. |
| Anti-air or anti-vehicle response | Stop enemy mobility from controlling the match. |
The exact catalogue, costs, seats, ammunition, armor zones, repair rules, and spawn limits need a public build before they can be treated as final.
What did the Closed Beta reveal about pricing?
Players raised a specific concern that tanks and armed helicopters were inexpensive compared with their earning power and with the cost of a normal infantry kit. Proposals included higher prices, supply-and-demand pricing, later heavy-vehicle access, and earlier anti-vehicle tools.
Those are balance observations and proposals, not final Early Access values. Use Vehicle economy and balance to separate the beta evidence from current-build checks.
How do vehicles connect to Control Zone scoring?
The full battlefield is larger than the active objective, so movement matters. A vehicle that returns ten players to the Control Zone before the next count can be more valuable than a vehicle chasing isolated kills. A transport that arrives late is just a cash sink with wheels or rotors.
Why do vehicles need infantry?
Vehicles create pressure; infantry usually secures presence. Armor can open space, while players still need to count inside the objective. Helicopters can deliver a squad, and the plan after landing matters as much as the flight itself.
What is the spending rule?
Buy a vehicle when you can answer four questions:
- Where does it need to go?
- Who will use or protect it?
- What enemy threat can stop it?
- How will it affect the next scoring check?
Sources
- WARDOGS on Steam for confirmed combined-arms, transport, Cash, and vehicle framing.
- Prices on armed vehicles NEEDS to be increased for the Closed Beta vehicle-economy discussion.