Warhounds Walkthrough: Opening Missions and Campaign Loop

Complete the Guided Opening

Warhounds opens like a chain of tactical lessons, then hands you a ship and turns those lessons into a campaign. Your first task is to locate President Canindo during the attack and extract him if he is alive. Follow the live objective markers and use the sequence to learn movement, cover, flank angles, area overwatch, high ground, and grenades.

Do not assume that every map ends when all visible enemies are dead. The objective panel determines success. During the opening hours, the game can ask you to locate a person, protect an operator, reach an evacuation point, or clear a sector.

Take the Ship and Unlock the Base

After the president sequence, the Warhounds need a secure headquarters. The solution is a captured ship that can operate as a mobile base. Clear the ship operation and complete each updated objective until control of the vessel is secured.

The base unlock changes the structure of the game. Tactical missions become one part of a larger command loop. You can recruit operators, improve facilities, purchase equipment, manage logistics and medicine, handle downtime, choose contracts, gather intel, and run covert operations.

This is the point where the walkthrough opens up. Official material says your choices affect access to missions, equipment, and allies, so later campaign order can vary. Use the objective and contract information in your own save instead of expecting every mission to appear in one fixed sequence.

Set Up the Campaign Before the Next Fight

Fresh recruits are the initial hiring option shown after the base opens. Build enough depth to field a squad when the opening veterans are tired, then make every operator deployable.

1. Hire the available recruits so one tired or wounded veteran does not block deployment.
2. Equip body armor and grenades before sending rookies into a combat mission.
3. Check fatigue, wounds, treatment needs, and available downtime across the roster.
4. Review contracts and covert operations for money, intel, equipment access, and campaign consequences.
5. Spend only on improvements that solve the next clear bottleneck in squad readiness.

Keep a rotation. The official campaign description includes medicine and downtime because a small group cannot take every assignment at full readiness. A recruit who survives early combat also becomes useful depth for later operations.

Use a Repeatable Campaign Loop

For every operation after the guided opening, use the same preparation cycle:

1. Read the contract reward, enemy preview, difficulty, and exact objective.
2. Choose rested operators whose classes and equipment solve that objective.
3. Confirm armor, grenades, weapons, and any mission focused tools.
4. Enter tactically, reveal limited ground, and finish one contact group before finding the next.
5. Stop fighting unnecessary enemies when an extraction or protection objective says to leave.
6. Return to base, treat injuries, rotate tired operators, promote survivors, and reinvest the reward.

Official systems include five combat classes and tools such as drones, combat scanners, smoke, and optical camouflage. Add those capabilities as the campaign grants access, but keep the same underlying loop: gather information, choose a squad for the task, preserve the roster, and let the objective decide when the operation is complete.

Continue After the Opening Hours

The selected full release walkthrough covers the opening, ship base, recruitment, strategic systems, and several early operations. It establishes how the campaign works, while it does not prove a universal chapter list for every choice.

When two missions compete for attention, compare their time pressure, reward, faction effect, and roster demands. Run covert work for intel where appropriate, prepare a rested combat team, and maintain enough money and equipment to recover from a difficult result. Campaign progress depends on decisions across missions, allies, contracts, and base management.