WARDOGS Vehicles: Roster, Prices and Unlocks

Choose the job first

Transport, supplies, forward deployment or fire support?

A spawn vehicle and a transport are different jobs. A transport takes passengers on a trip; the forward APC creates a deployment option for teammates in pre-release play. An FOB can protect and supply that position, but is not a substitute for checking that the APC deployment is available.

The other counter

Read the vehicle vendor before spending

Use the HQ vehicle vendor to compare what your account can buy. A price, an unlock label and a level requirement answer different questions. Having enough cash for a vehicle does not remove a progression gate.

The tables below preserve the older Closed Alpha listing: 20 vehicles, including entries with unreadable requirements. They are a historical budget reference, not current Early Access prices. Match the name and variant in your build, then read its current price and gate before purchase.

Keep purchasing a vehicle separate from deploying through a friendly respawn APC. The latter uses the HQ Deployment Board in pre-release play and depends on whether that forward option is available.

Names you may see beyond the Alpha table

September community vehicle lists include M113 APC SV, Z20 Lakota and Z20 Lakota [Miniguns], which are not entries in the older 20-vehicle Alpha table below. Use the exact name shown by your build rather than assuming an old UH-1Y label is automatically interchangeable with a Z20 label.

M113 APC SV is listed as a spawn vehicle. The Z20 entries distinguish the transport name from its minigun variant. This guide does not add unverified current prices, seats or unlock levels for those entries.

BULKHEAD announced 21 vehicles as part of the Early Access launch scope. A database can contain repeated records or entries that are not in the active vendor, so its row count is not proof of the live roster. Early Access is scheduled for September 10; the September Beta has ended.

Land transport

Land transports: compare the exact variant

The Alpha table groups light transport, SUVs and trucks. Begin with the job: move your squad, carry a delivery or support the approach with an armed vehicle. A weapon suffix identifies a different entry; do not use the base model’s requirement for an armed variant.

For the HUMVEE search in particular, the historical list has three entries: HUMVEE, HUMVEE [M249] and HUMVEE [MINIGUN]. Their listed prices and gates differ. The minigun requirement was unreadable, so the table does not assign it a guessed level.

Closed Alpha snapshot: land transports with prices and unlock gates

	Vehicle	Price	Gate	Track
	BOBCAT	$500	—	—
	DUNE BUGGY	$1,500	Driver Lvl 10	Driver
	KODIAK	$2,500	—	—
	KODIAK [PICKUP]	$3,000	Unlock $15,000	—
	HUMVEE	$3,000	Driver Lvl 15	Driver
	KODIAK [M249]	$3,750	Driver Lvl 8	Driver
	HUMVEE [M249]	$3,750	Driver Lvl 25	Driver
	HUMVEE [MINIGUN]	$4,500	Locked, gate unread	—
	URAL	$5,000	Unlock $60,000	—
	URAL DEFENDER	$6,000	Driver Lvl 30	Driver
	URAL DEFENDER [M249]	$6,750	Driver Lvl 40	Driver

Heavy armour

Tanks, anti-air and artillery: different heavy-vehicle jobs

The Alpha list includes the L2A6, Flakpanzer Gepard and SPH-2. All three showed Wardog level requirements in that record. This preserves what the old vendor displayed; it does not establish how the current build awards XP or whether the same gates remain in place.

Choose the role before saving for the purchase. A vehicle supporting an infantry push, one covering the sky and one providing indirect fire solve different problems. Coordinate the route and the people supporting that vehicle instead of treating the highest listed price as the best choice.

Closed Alpha snapshot: tanks and artillery with prices and unlock gates

	Vehicle	Price	Gate	Track
	FLAKPANZER GEPARD	$8,000	Wardog Lvl 45	Wardog
	L2A6	$14,000	Wardog Lvl 35	Wardog
	SPH-2	$10,000	Wardog Lvl 55	Wardog

Air power

Combat helicopters: armed variants are separate purchases

These four Alpha entries were armed helicopter variants with listed prices but unreadable unlock requirements. Keep those missing gates open rather than inferring them from another aircraft or from a later community table.

Before taking an armed aircraft, confirm its current weapons, ammunition and controls in your build. The old purchase price alone does not describe a ready-to-fly combat loadout or a verified operating cost.

Closed Alpha snapshot: combat helicopters with prices

	Vehicle	Price	Gate	Track
	AH-6M [MINIGUNS]	$7,000	Locked, gate unread	—
	UH-1Y [MINIGUNS]	$8,000	Locked, gate unread	—
	AH-6R [ROCKETS]	$12,500	Locked, gate unread	—
	HAVOC	$18,000	Locked, gate unread	—

Air transport

Transport helicopters: plan the delivery and the return

The old Alpha record names MH-6 and UH-1Y as the transport pair. MH-6 had a plain price, while the UH-1Y entry displayed Pilot Lvl 10. Preserve that version distinction when comparing them with the names shown in a later build.

For a transport run, agree on passengers or supplies and a drop-off point before departure. A successful flight gets the people or materials to a useful position and leaves the squad able to continue; a fast arrival with no agreed destination does not solve the map problem.

Closed Alpha snapshot: air transports with prices and unlock gates

	Vehicle	Price	Gate	Track
	MH-6	$6,250	—	—
	UH-1Y	$7,400	Pilot Lvl 10	Pilot

Progression

Read the named XP track and the cash gate separately

The historical vehicle tiles used Driver, Pilot and Wardog labels. Read the track attached to the exact vehicle rather than treating every displayed level as one interchangeable counter.

A tile marked “Unlock” and a tile showing a purchase price are not interchangeable either. For example, the archived Ural entry shows a $60,000 unlock label and a $5,000 price. That does not, by itself, establish the current charging sequence or prove that the unlock is permanent.

Use the current item tooltip and progression screen to see which track and requirement apply. The old labels are not enough to infer every XP-earning action, cross-track restriction or future unlock rule.

The economy

Budget for the task and the next life

The published game design gives players a $10,000 starting balance and lets cash persist between matches. Vehicles draw from the same economy as the rest of your loadout. Transporting teammates and other team actions can reward cash, so driving and logistics can contribute without chasing kills.

Set aside the rest of your kit and a replacement reserve before choosing a vehicle. In the Alpha table, a $3,000 HUMVEE uses 30% of that initial $10,000, a $6,250 MH-6 uses 62.5%, and a $14,000 L2A6 costs more than the initial balance. Those are comparisons of the archived prices, not a promise about today’s balance or what a trip will earn.

For a supply run, ask which FOB needs a delivery and what it needs. For a passenger run, arrange the destination and a pilot or driver who can make it. Do not budget around a guaranteed payout per passenger or an assumed refund after losing the vehicle.

Before Early Access

What still needs the launch build

• The final purchasable vehicle roster and its exact prices after the September 10 release opens.
• The charging behavior of cash-unlock labels and the current progression requirement for each variant.
• The relationship between older UH-1Y labels and newer Z20 Lakota entries; this guide does not silently rename or merge them.
• The current forward-APC cooldown, deployment restrictions and purchase conditions.
• Verified seat counts, speeds, durability, weapon ammunition and running costs for the same build.
• Whether an advertised future aircraft is actually purchasable; a development plan is not a vendor entry.

Learn the controls before taking a vehicle

• HQ and forward spawn points →Check the Deployment Board and distinguish the respawn APC from the FOB around it.
• Helicopter controls →Build a predictable flight layout, separate lift from direction, and practice short landings before trying a full squad transport run.
• HOTAS setup →Build a usable flight layout around four controls, then test device detection, neutral positions and the transition back to infantry.
• Controller support →Set up a gamepad for the tasks you actually need: infantry movement, inventory, communication and vehicles. Keep a keyboard available during the pre-release builds.
• Tower codes →Treat towers as an objective your squad can use to improve its position. Read the current match interface instead of copying a number from a video.