Roster planning · Verified August 12, 2026
Warhounds Classes and Squad Planning
Five class names are confirmed. Their complete skills and specializations are not, so this page stays mission-first and evidence-limited.
The five officially named classes
These names come directly from the Steam store. The official description instructs players to combine classes, choose gear for each mission, treat and extract personnel, and protect key operatives. It does not provide a complete skill tree or a versioned table of class abilities.
Plan around mission needs, not a permanent tier list
Use four questions before deployment: which ranges must the squad cover, how will it create or break cover, which tools are needed for information or concealment, and which operative is essential to the plan? The class names imply broad battlefield functions, but this guide deliberately avoids assigning unverified abilities to them.
- Check the current in-game class description and loadout restrictions.
- Cover more than one engagement range when the mission briefing is uncertain.
- Account for extraction and medical consequences, not only damage output.
- Re-evaluate after patches instead of treating a launch-week composition as permanent.
Veterans and recruits
The official game website advertises ten unique veterans with distinct traits, stories and abilities, plus a wider recruit pool. Steam’s public achievements include “Gang’s All Here” for hiring all veterans and “All the King’s Men” for hiring the maximum number of soldiers. Those facts support roster breadth, but not a claim that every veteran can be fully customized.
Questions still waiting for reliable documentation
Players are already asking about specializations, character customization and veteran customization. The sources checked for this edition do not provide a complete, current answer. Those topics will get dedicated coverage only after official documentation or reproducible full-game evidence is available.