Artillery Tank
OVERVIEW
The artillery tank is named in the official WARDOGS description as one of the ways a player can choose to spend a match: if you are feeling destructive, you could man an artillery tank and rain down destruction on the enemy. The same passage names heavily armoured tanks separately, in a sentence about tearing through towns. Both appear on the Steam store page and the Team17 game page, read at the source on 4 September 2026. The word that matters most in the first sentence is man, because it implies a vehicle that is occupied and operated rather than driven past, and because it sits in a list whose point is that no one is assigned to anything.
HISTORY
Indirect fire is an unusual thing to hand to individual players in a shooter, and it makes sense here for a structural reason the same sources establish. WARDOGS scores by presence: the team with the most players inside a control zone of two kilometres by two earns the points, and the first to one hundred wins. A weapon that can make a position unpleasant without being in it is therefore aimed at the one thing that actually decides matches. The publisher pairs the vehicle with the destruction layer in the same passage — apartment blocks coming down, towns torn through — and both the Steam page and the Team17 page describe the battlefield as destructible. BULKHEAD’s official Season 1 changelog of 9 September 2026 now publishes selected price, unlock and XP changes. These are announced adjustments, not an exhaustive catalogue or measurements of the released version; they do not settle every other rule discussed here. For wider vehicle context, PC Gamer's Morgan Park reported on 23 September 2026 that, in a Humvee, popping one tire cut the vehicle's maximum speed by over half and popping two slowed it to a crawl; the report cites a Min Max Lab test and is not a test of this artillery tank or of the released game's general behaviour.
WHAT IT CHANGES IN PRACTICE
The official description gives tanks distinct uses: advancing through built-up terrain and striking a distant position, with the latter described as an artillery tank. Using fire to deny an enemy position is a tactical interpretation, not an effect measured here. Team points depend on player presence in the Control Zone, not shells landing there. This article does not establish accuracy, range or firing interval for a verified model; those details require dated evidence or a direct check.
WHAT PLAYERS GET WRONG
The buying mistake is the one the cash economy makes costly: spending big on the most spectacular thing on the list. Money carries from match to match, so an expensive vehicle bought for a bad position is a debt carried into the next round, and the official description is explicit that spending big is a bet with the potential to turn a battle or to cost you. The second mistake is thinking artillery answers a defended zone. It does not, on the published rules: it can punish a position, but the team with more players inside still scores. The third is assuming what is not written — that both tank mentions describe one vehicle. They may; the description names them differently and we are not going to merge them on its behalf. Our entries on destruction and on the control zone carry what is established about the ground this vehicle is used on.
Launch balance changes
Selected changes announced in the official changelog dated 9 September 2026. These are published changes, not a complete price list or an independent check of the current game build. Item and progression-track names retain the English spelling used in that source.
Artillery Tank · Career — Price (in-game money)
Before : $400,000 → After : $500,000
Artillery Tank — Unlock level
Before : Career · 55 → After : Career · 90
Selected changes relevant to this page; see the source for the complete announcement.Official changelog.
THIS ENTRY WAS LAST CHECKED 27 SEPTEMBER 2026