WARDOGS vehicles: the 27 at launch, the 14 with published prices or unlock levels, and what the changelog says about flying

The wiki's Gameplay page: 'Vehicles form an important part of WARDOGS' combined-arms gameplay. Players can purchase vehicles as part of their loadouts and use them to transport players, engage opposing teams, or support their team.' The Steam description gives the three archetypes — 'ferry supplies to teammates by helicopter', 'tear your way through towns in heavily armoured tanks', 'man an artillery tank and rain down destruction'. And the money system pays for transport directly: 'transporting friendly players' is on the wiki's list of cash-earning actions, and PCGamesN adds that passengers' assists after drop-off pay the driver a bonus and that players can tip.

Squads get vehicle features too. BULKHEAD's FAQ: squadding up 'provides additional UI, communication tools, and vehicle locking for better coordination', and the wiki notes 'access to squad voice communication and vehicle-related features'. So a squad can lock its $50,000 helicopter to its own members — the sources do not describe how.

Search interest — 'wardogs huey', 'wardogs humvee', 'wardogs kodiak', 'wardogs lakota', 'wardogs ural', 'wardogs z20' — maps almost exactly onto the changelog's names, which is a sign that players are learning the roster from the same document.

The Season 1 changelog lists price changes and unlock-level changes. The table merges both. A dash means the changelog did not mention that value — not that it is zero.

Transport is the one vehicle role every source agrees pays. The wiki lists 'transporting friendly players' among cash actions; the Steam description's example is 'transporting friendlies to the zone'; and PCGamesN spells out the mechanics: 'Ferrying people to and from the zone earns you a decent chunk of change, and any assists your passengers get after you drop them off award you bonus cash… Players can tip you if they enjoyed the journey, rewarding good driving or piloting skills.' Progressing 'the Driver or Pilot progression tree' lets you 'ferry more and more passengers' — the guide's words, which imply seat counts rise with the vehicle tier, though no source lists seats.

The mobile spawn point is the transport role's endgame: drive it into the zone, park it somewhere safe — ideally inside a FOB — and collect 'a decent wedge of cash' on arrival plus more for every spawn. The Supporter Pack's 'Littlebird Helicopter Taxi Camo' is BULKHEAD's own acknowledgement that the taxi pilot is a recognised job.

Three changelog lines concern flight. 'Z20 Lakota balance pass, and a fix for sluggish pitch.' 'Helicopter input damping now applies to every input device.' 'Brought the Z20 Lakota chase camera rotation rattle down by 6 dB.' The Lakota also got cheaper, from $50,000 to $35,000, while the armed Little Bird doubled to $50,000 — read together, BULKHEAD made the transport helicopter more accessible and the gunship less so.

The Steam guides list on 13 September had two flight guides trending — 'how to fly helicopters' and 'How to FLY in Wardogs' — and search data shows 'wardogs best helicopter controls', 'how to land helicopter' and 'joystick support' as live questions. BULKHEAD's May 2026 devlog claims 'real-world… flight models'; the Season 1 note that damping 'applies to every input device' implies controllers and possibly sticks are recognised, though no official input list exists. We cannot give control bindings from a source, so we do not.

The changelog says Driver 'has been rejigged to give a satisfying escalation through attack vehicles', and the unlock order shows it: URAL (3), Kodiak Assault (6), Dune Buggy (8), Kodiak Flatbed (10), Large Supply Crate (16), URAL Covered (18), Music Tape H (23), URAL Attack (25), Humvee with minigun (30), Heavy Tank (35). Transport first, then logistics, then armed trucks, then armour. Driver 35 is 500,000 XP on the Season 1 curve.

Two Driver vehicles do jobs beyond fighting. The Kodiak Flatbed and URAL Covered are the supply carriers implied by the FOB's three supply types, and PCGamesN's mobile-spawn method — 'drive the mobile spawn point to a safe location inside the zone' for cash on arrival and per spawn — refers to an APC the guide does not name. Which vehicle is the spawn point is not stated in any source we have.

The Heavy Tank moved from Career 35 to Driver 35 — same number, different ledger, so a player must drive to earn it. The Artillery Tank moved from Career 55 to Career 90 and from $400,000 to $500,000. BULKHEAD's explanation is the 'big ticket items' paragraph: median players reach level 20 in 20–25 hours; 'those wanting the big ticket items, the top 5%, will need to grind.' Two related changelog fixes: 'Fixed a DPI issue affecting tank aiming' and 'Vehicle turrets now have a maximum operator rotation speed', the latter a deliberate nerf to how fast a gunner can traverse.

For most players in September 2026, indirect fire means the FOB mortar (Support level 8) rather than the Artillery Tank. The mortar guide covers it.

Vehicles are not fire-and-forget. The wiki's FOB list includes 'Vehicle repair facilities' and 'Vehicle refueling facilities', and its supply list includes 'Fuel Supplies' as one of the three types a base consumes. A team running helicopters and trucks needs a base with both bays and a pilot or driver keeping fuel supplies stocked — the same logistics loop that pays the supplier when teammates buy from a crate. The FOB guide has the full list.

Patch 0.11 added one more vehicle-adjacent fact: 'More GPU crashes addressed' sits next to 'Various cash exploits have been fixed', and the Season 1 notes fixed 'a crash when firing a weapon whose owner had left' — if a vehicle gunner leaving mid-burst was crashing your client, that is the line.

Two lines in wardogs.com's enforcement policy touch vehicles indirectly. 'Deliberately exploiting bugs, glitches or unintended behaviour for advantage, including damage, movement, spawn and progression exploits' covers vehicle clipping and spawn-vehicle abuse; and team killing has a cash consequence visible in a launch-week Reddit post titled '-250 team kill assist' — a number we cite as a player report, not a published rule, because no source documents the team-kill penalty. Squad vehicle locking (BULKHEAD FAQ) is the sanctioned way to stop a teammate taking your $50,000 helicopter.

The wiki's Vehicles page was a stub on 14 September 2026 — a category page with no entries. The 27-vehicle count is PCGamesN's, and the names we have come from the changelog and BULKHEAD's marketing (the Supporter Pack's 'Littlebird Helicopter Taxi Camo' confirms a transport Little Bird; the press kit's screenshots show a Humvee, a main battle tank and Little Birds). Search terms like 'wardogs huey', 'wardogs jets' and 'wardogs humvee' are real questions: the Steam Early Access Q&A says 'new vehicle types including fighter jets' are planned, not present; a Huey is not named in any source; the Humvee with minigun is Driver 30.

When BULKHEAD or the wiki publishes speeds, seats, armour or health, this table will grow. Until then, the 14 rows above are the entire public dataset.