Complete WARDOGS Building Guide

Complete WARDOGS Building Guide Quick Summary:

• Building is one of the main systems that separates WARDOGS from other tactical FPS games.
• FOBs give your team a protected spawn area, a supply hub, and a way to control Hotzone pressure.
• Builders rely on different hammer types, and each one unlocks different structure options and build speeds.
• Most serious construction happens around an FOB, while smaller defensive tools can be placed more freely.
• Strong building is not just about placing walls. It also depends on supply management, smart FOB placement, and team protection.

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How Building Works in WARDOGS

Building is an essential part of WARDOGS and is one of the key elements that makes everything click. Without builders, you either won’t win or it’ll be the sweatiest match of all time. Builders create FOBs (Forward Operating Bases). FOBs are key to victory in many ways:

• Protection to Spawn Vehicle: Just like in Battlefield, you can spawn in vehicles. Usually, people put a vehicle behind a fortified FOB for their teammates to spawn in the heat of the battle, instead of waiting for a Little Bird Taxi at the initial spawn point.
• Supply Camp: FOB stores ammo, fuel, vehicle repair stuff, and building resources needed to expand and protect the Operating Base. It doesn’t resupply itself, so it’s your logistics player's task to bring more resources to it.
• Draws a Hotzone to It: If you buy a large hammer, you can build a drill rig that attracts a Hotzone to its location, as long as you have enough fuel to keep it running. You can also hack towers by inputting codes into them to immediately attract a Hotzone to your location.

If you are confused by all the terms you see here, check out our WARDOGS Beginner’s guide, cause if I explain every single thing as we go along, this article will be much longer than it needs to be. What I wanted to say with this section is that you need to protect your builders cause they’re doing the dirty work. That’s not to say they can’t protect themselves, cause they can build mortars, CIWS, and AA launchers. Basically, an FOB is your fort that you hold and protect for as long as you can, so be sure to take your best guns with you. 

Building, much like every other gameplay element in WARDOGS, brings you class points. To be more specific, Support class points, so if you thought that you won’t unlock anything because you don’t kill other players, worry not. In any case, FOBs attract the enemy team like it’s a flame to moths, so you’ll have your own fair share of kills.

How to Build in WARDOGS

Now let me explain how to build stuff. An in-game tutorial explains it pretty decently for you to learn the ropes, but in case you clicked through it, you’ll find this section useful. As a builder, you can create barriers and infantry protection by putting up sandbags, but it’s not really building, it’s closer to using a field upgrade in COD. You’re pretty limited if you don’t build around the FOB area. Here’s a step-by-step building guide for WARDOGS, read and learn:

1. Buy an FOB: To start building something serious, you first need to set up an FOB. You can purchase it from a vendor in the Equipment tab, under Building. You need to equip it from your inventory, and then set it up in any place you deem fit. By default, FOB contains a Medium and a Small hammer, two wrenches for vehicle repair, signal grenades for supply requests and for indicating a landing zone, and bandages for quick healing.
2. Buy a Hammer: Small, Medium, or Large hammers can build different types of buildings. Large hammer can obviously build it all, a Medium hammer can build Large and Basic buildables, and a Small hammer can only build basic stuff that you don’t always need an FOB for. They also differ in speed, with Large being the fastest for building.
3. Choose a Structure: Click the right mouse button to open a menu where you can select a thing you want to build. Underneath it, you’ll see how many building supplies the building will use.
4. Place the Structure: Once placed, exit the building menu and start hitting it with your hammer. You’ll see that it’s quite a slow process, but if you look around, you’ll also notice that there are yellow Xs on the building. Hit them to speed up the process significantly.
5. Repeat Until Done: That’s it. You just place stuff, hit it till it’s done, and maintain the supplies.

Building, while being simple, is quite a mesmerizing process. You always have something to do and someone to help as a builder, so it’s a very fun role, despite sounding boring on paper. Plus, it’s a very easy and safe way to make money. I recommend you try it.

 

 

Building Supplies Cost for Every Structure in WARDOGS

As I mentioned before, each building requires a certain amount of building materials. Some don’t need much, while others can go well over hundreds of them. There are a total of 22 buildings available in the game. Below, I’ll provide a short list of costs for each of the buildings and what you need them for. Here’s a table with building supplies cost for every building in WARDOGS:

Buiding	Supplies Cost	Explanation	FOB Needed
Recon Tent	5	Hides your Recon from infrared vision	No
Hedgehod	14	Blocks passage for vehicles	No
Barbed Wire	5	Slows down and hurts enemy infantry	No
Sandbags	10	Builds a waist-level cover	No
Builder’s Radio	13	Plays music. Just for funzies.	Yes
HESCO Block (Small)	10	Protection from bullets and grenades	Yes
HESCO Block (Large)	14	Tall, but same as above	Yes
Door	14	Access point usable only by YOUR infantry	Yes
Gate	52	Same as door but for your team’s vehicles	Yes
HESCO Wall	46	Four tall HESCO Blocks. Cheaper than a single large HESCO Block	Yes
Bremer Wall	10	Narrow tall wall with barbed wire on top	Yes
Bunker	61	Good protection from fire	Yes
Recon Tower	61	Elevated position to shoot from. Good for outposts	Yes
Indirect Fire Shelter	61	Same as bunker but with four doorways	Yes
Refuel Station	121	Lets your vehicles refuel, granted you have enough fuel in the FOB	Yes
Repair Station	121	Lets you repair vehicles if you have spare parts stored in the FOB	Yes
Drill Rig	1351	When activated, attracts Hotzone to it. Requires fuel to operate	Yes
Stingray	91	Mortar against armored vehicles. Buying ammo requires Mechanical components or money. Holds one active UAV at a time	Yes
Loudspeaker	61	Lets your voice be heard across vast distances to command your team or to just make fun of your enemy	Yes
Mortar	91	Unlike Stingray, it doesn’t damage armored vehicles and is mostly against infantry or light transport. Doesn’t require a separate ammo purchase	Yes
CIWS	901	Manual anti-air system. It’s a Gatling gun. Requires ammo supplies for reload. Extremely long to build and only progresses if you hit Xs.	Yes
Talon	601	Heat-seeking missile launcher. Requires ammo supplies for reload. Long to build, only progresses by hitting Xs.	Yes

As you can see, turning your protected point into a true fort requires a lot of building supplies, which ideally should be transported to you by logistics players. Try placing your FOBs somewhere where it makes sense. Usually a bit removed from the battlefield. Otherwise, you spend your resources in vain, and no one comes to see your cool fort.

Read our other WARDOGS guides:

• Vehicles Guide
• How to Unlock Weapons

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