🪂 Deployment Guide: How to Deploy & Use the Board

The deployment board is where your squad locks in before a match. It handles three things: team selection (which of the three factions you all deploy as), loadout confirmation (everyone sees what each member is bringing) and insertion coordination (where the transport flies and where you jump). The squad leader initiates the deployment sequence; once the plane is in the air, each player decides when to jump. The board is also where you see whether a squad slot is filled or empty — if you are solo queuing, the board fills with randoms from the matchmaking pool.

• Team selection: the board assigns your squad to one of the three factions (LONESTAR, MANTICORE or VALKHYRA). All four squad members deploy on the same team.
• Loadout visibility: every squadmate sees what you are carrying — rifle, armor, items. Use this to avoid stacking the same role.
• Insertion path: the transport follows a flight line over the map. The board shows the path; the squad leader picks the jump window.
• Squad size: up to four players per squad. You can deploy with fewer (duos or trios work), but four is the coordination sweet spot.

• Queue or form a squad: invite friends via Steam, queue into matchmaking, or join a public squad. The deployment board fills as members join.
• Build your loadout: pick your rifle, armor tier, magazines, backpack, smokes, bandages and revive items. The deployment board shows your total cost against your bank balance.
• Board the transport: once all four squad slots confirm, the plane takes off. The flight path reveals the Control Zone location.
• Choose your jump zone: the squad leader calls the drop. Aim for the edge of the Control Zone, not the center — the center is where the fight finds you first.
• Parachute in: steer your chute toward cover. Land, regroup with your squad, and push objectives.
• Play the match: survive, capture towers, deposit cash and matériel, and extract with your gear intact.

A WARDOGS squad holds up to four players. You can deploy with fewer — duos and trios work — but the full four-slot squad is the community standard for a reason: it maps cleanly onto the class roles (one Assault, one Medic, one Support, one flexible slot). Solo queuers fill whatever slots are open on a random squad; the deployment board shows you which roles are covered before the plane takes off.

When you die in WARDOGS, everything you were carrying is gone — there is no insurance and no gear recovery. Redeployment means starting the next match from scratch: your persistent cash balance (minus what you lost), your progression levels intact, and a fresh loadout screen. The deployment board works the same way every match: queue, loadout, transport, parachute. There is no mid-match redeploy — once you are on the ground, you fight with what you brought until you extract or die.

• Death is permanent for that match: your rifle, armor and items are lost. The cash you earned during the match is also gone.
• Your bank persists: the $10,000 starting balance (plus earnings) survives between matches. That is your redeployment budget.
• Progression survives: class levels, unlocks and achievements carry through death and seasonal wipes do not affect them until the wipe timer hits.
• Next match, same process: queue, build loadout on the deployment board, parachute in. The game does not penalize you for dying beyond the gear loss.

• Parachute to the zone edge; the center is the kill box where all 100 players converge first.
• Land near cover, not in the open — the moment you touch the ground, you are visible.
• Regroup with your squad before pushing. Four players moving together capture towers; four players scattered are four free kills.
• Send one Recon or Scout forward before committing bodies — information before aggression.
• Never deploy into the Control Zone without smokes and a parachute in your loadout — the two items every community thread agrees on.