About Wardogs Frontline

What it is

Players join Lonestar, Valkyra or Manticore and vote on which neighbouring sector their faction attacks next. The attack becomes a battle, and every real match played while it lasts adds points: 3 for first place, 2 for second and 1 for third. When the battle ends, the side with more points holds the sector. At the end of the season, the faction with the most sectors wins.

What it brings to WARDOGS

• Every match counts beyond itself: it moves a front that the whole community can see.
• A reason to come back between sessions: a battle to win tonight, a vote to settle tomorrow.
• A shared story for each season, made by the players, that the community and streamers can follow and talk about.
• It builds on the stronger seasonal meta game you have announced for Early Access, without touching the game client.

How this demo works

There are no real results yet, so bots vote and a simulated match is played every 10 minutes. Here votes last 1 hour and battles 3 hours; in a real season they would last 24 and 48 hours. Pull “Skip 1 hour” on the front page to watch the war move.

Connecting real matches

For each finished match, the war only needs to know how the three factions placed. On your side, that is one webhook; everything else already runs. It would send one small message when a match ends:

{
  "matchId": "7c9e6679-7425-40de-944b-e07fc1f90ae7",
  "endedAt": "2026-10-01T20:14:05Z",
  "placements": {
    "first": "valkyra",
    "second": "lonestar",
    "third": "manticore"
  }
}

• No player data: only the match id, when it ended and the faction placements.
• Signed with a shared secret, so only your servers can send results.
• Each match id counts once, so retries are safe.
• A read-only endpoint, such as “matches finished since a given time”, would work just as well.

Rewarding the winning faction

The war becomes a long-term goal inside the WARDOGS economy if the players who win it get something for it. At the end of each season, the faction holding the most sectors wins, and its players are rewarded in proportion to what they contributed.

• When: at the end of each WARDOGS season, or every few weeks as a shorter campaign if seasons are long. The cadence is yours to choose.
• Who: players who played matches for the winning faction that counted in the war. You measure each player’s contribution with the data you already have (matches played and, if you like, cash earned in them), so combat, support and logistics all count.
• What: rewards that survive the seasonal reset and do not affect balance, such as gold bars or a faction victory cosmetic. Never gear or cash that would make anyone stronger.
• A minimum number of counted matches, so switching to the winning side at the last minute is not worth it.

At the end of the season, the war would send you the winner and the ids of the matches that counted for it:

{
  "seasonId": "season-1",
  "endedAt": "2026-11-05T20:00:00Z",
  "winner": "manticore",
  "countedMatchIds": [
    "7c9e6679-7425-40de-944b-e07fc1f90ae7",
    "1b4e28ba-2fa1-11d2-883f-0016d3cca427"
  ]
}

You already know who played each of those matches and for which faction, so no player data leaves your side. It builds on the stronger seasonal meta game you plan for Early Access, and it rewards the time and impact players bring to a match.

Built to production standards

• Clients only read. Every write goes through server functions with App Check, validation, authorization and rate limits, and the database rules are tested.
• Over 200 automated tests, including the database rules and the server functions running against the Firebase emulators.
• Designed for cost: the whole map is a single document and every live query has a limit.
• Accessible (factions are told apart by texture as well as color) and translated, English first.
• Respects the WARDOGS brand: no official logos or art, a fan-made notice on every page, and no real money of any kind.