WARDOGS Ballistics Calculator

How these figures are calculated

Damage per hit starts from the round's base damage, then multiplies by the hit-location multiplier, the range falloff, and armour. Each step is a real number from the game files and each gets its own column, so any figure can be checked rather than taken on trust.

Hit-location multipliers differ by weapon class, which most calculators miss. A headshot is × 2.35 with an assault rifle and × 1.50 with a shotgun, and an SMG does more to the arms and legs than a rifle does. The multiplier shown beside each location updates for the weapons you have selected, and reads "varies" when they disagree.

Armour is coverage first, then a plate that wears out. Each piece states which locations it protects, and only a piece covering the location you picked applies at all — Levels 1 to 3 cover the torso, Level 4 adds the pelvis and upper arms, helmets cover the head with Levels 3 and 4 adding the neck. A shot to an uncovered location ignores armour entirely, however heavy it is.

Plates break, and that is why the shot count is not just health divided by damage. Every plate has finite durability, so the fight is worked out shot by shot: while the plate holds, the target takes the reduced figure and the plate takes its own separate damage; once it fails, every later round lands at full strength. The Plate column shows what one round takes off it and either how many rounds it survives or the shot it breaks on. The hit-location multiplier is deliberately not applied to the plate — a headshot does not wear out a chest plate faster — but range falloff is.

Ammunition is four numbers, not one. Each load carries a multiplier against bare flesh, a penetration scalar that scales the plate's own reduction, a separate multiplier for each armour tier, and its own figure for damage dealt to the plate. That is why hollow point against a Level 4 vest is close to useless — its tier multiplier and the scaled reduction compound — while armour piercing gives up damage on bare flesh to keep it against a plate.

Time to kill includes time of flight. It is the interval between shots times the shots after the first, plus how long the last round spends in the air — integrated from the projectile's mass, diameter and drag model against its muzzle velocity. A round still travelling has not killed anything, and at long range with a slow load that difference is bigger than the firing interval.

Shots and time both divide by infantry health, the one figure not in the data. No health attribute ships in the cooked files. 100 HP is inferred from a full-heal consumable restoring exactly that much — good evidence, but an inference, and the panel at the top of this page says so. Damage per hit does not depend on it.