Moving your squad and supplies.

A vehicle is a purchase, not a pickup

Vehicles sit in the same buy menu as weapons and gear, bought from your current cash balance. Your journey starts with $10,000; that balance is not replenished at each respawn. That single design decision is what makes the logistics role real: a helicopter is somebody’s money, and losing it costs them, so a pilot who ferries a full squad to the zone is spending on the team’s behalf rather than picking up a free toy.

Transport is one of the paid actions

BULKHEAD names transporting friendlies to the zone alongside reviving and holding the objective as actions that reward cash. Its wider description lists transport and logistics as roles in their own right, next to combat ones. So driving is not a supporting hobby in this game’s reward structure — it is one of the named ways to earn.

What is actually visible in official footage

Across the published screenshots and trailers: light helicopters carrying troops on the skids, a helicopter cockpit with a working instrument panel, a door gunner on a minigun, wheeled armoured transports, a main battle tank, and towed or self-propelled artillery. The store copy adds the categories in words — tanks, helicopters, an artillery tank — and describes ferrying supplies to teammates by helicopter as a way to play.

• Light transport helicopter, troops seated on the skids
• Helicopter cockpit with instrumentation — a flyable aircraft, not a set piece
• Door-gunner position on a minigun
• Wheeled armoured transport
• Main battle tank
• Artillery, described in the store copy as an artillery tank

The flight model is claimed, not shown

BULKHEAD has said publicly that WARDOGS uses real-world ballistics, audio and flight models. That is a claim about fidelity, and it is the studio’s own — but a claim of realism is not a control scheme. Nothing has been published about how a helicopter is actually flown here: no keybinds, no mouse-versus-stick behaviour, no autohover, no HOTAS support statement. Anyone publishing a WARDOGS helicopter control guide today is describing a build they have not documented.

The roster is empty and will stay empty until it is not

BULKHEAD has published one vehicle name, the Littlebird, and no price, speed, armour value or seat count for it or for anything else. A beta guide fills in three more names — the Mi-28 Havoc, the Huey and a since-removed Flakpanzer — with a beta price and unlock level for the Havoc alone; treat every one of those figures as a beta report, not a launch fact. A vehicle count circulates from a devlog video and appears in no official text, so we do not print a total either. Our vehicles table has four rows now, and no confidence higher than a beta observation for three of them, which is the honest state of the question today.

Before you fly anyone anywhere

Editorial preparation. Agree the destination before people board — an aircraft full of players who each expected a different drop is worse than no aircraft. Think about where passengers regroup if you go down on the way, because in a mode scored by presence in the zone, a squad scattered short of it has cost more than the vehicle did.

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