Career Orders and Tutorials

**Career Orders** are tasks meant to assist new players in mechanics of the game. Some of them come with accompanying **tutorials** directly linked using a 'drill sergeant' symbol.

All of them provide rewards of 2000 and some of them provide Boosters. In total 92,000 is rewarded (though some Career Orders require buying items which negates the reward), 5 Rank XP Boosters and 7 Combat Ribbon Boosters (Battle, Combat Movement, Tactical, Infantry Assault, Recon, Physical Training, Defense)

## Career Orders

### Join a battle

Rewards: 2000 Credits, Rank XP Booster

Click the TO BATTLE button.
By scoring points in the game, more game modes unlock as your Player Level increases.

### Activate a Ribbon-XP booster

Rewards: 2000 Credits, Combat Ribbon Booster: Battle

### Purchase a weapon

Reward: 2000 Credits

To purchase an unlocked weapon for your soldier, click the silver- or gold- colored price buttons to purchase it using either credits or gold.

### Equip a weapon

Reward: 2000 Credits

On the Soldier screen you will find your soldier's current loadout to the left and his inventory to the right.
Your soldier has 3 loadout slots (4 with Veteran Membership) for weapons and equipment.
Note that only weapons unlocked and owned by your soldier will be available for use. New weapons and equipment will unlock as your soldier progresses.
The more equipment points are used up, the faster your soldier will lose stamina in battle. Your loadout cannot exceed your soldier's total amount of equipment points.

### Join a War faction and observe a contested town on War map

Reward: 2000 Credits

### Recruit a second infantry soldier

Rewards: 2000 Credits, Rank XP Booster

No matter what faction you selected initially, you will be able to own - and play as - soldiers from any faction.
As new classes become available, not only will you be able to recruit and play as tank crewmen, pilots, recons or paratroopers, but also switch between them during battle.
Having the ability to switch between different loadouts mid-battle gives you a substantial leg up and allows you to quickly adapt to any situation.
Alternatively, you can click the Store and select the Soldiers category.

### Repair a weapon

Reward: 2000 Credits

As a weapon wears out, the background bar fills up and becomes increasingly more red. Once a weapon breaks, you will not be able to use it in battle until it has been fully repaired.
To repair a weapon, click the maintenance icon.
If you prefer to have your weapon automatically repaired after every battle, click the appropriate checkbox.

### Resupply weapon ammo

Reward: 2000 Credits

To resupply a weapon with ammo, click the maintenance icon.
To automatically resupply after every battle, tick the appropriate checkbox.

### Play any "Quick Battle"

Rewards: 2000 Credits, Rank XP Booster

While certain game modes can take longer to queue up for, Quick Battles gets you to the action faster by allowing the matchmaker to find a suitable battle using any soldier in your roster.
To start a Quick Battle, click the TO BATTLE button and select a Quick Battle option from the game mode menu.

### Check your in-game mail

Reward: 2000 Credits

To check your in-game mail, click the mail icon.

### Join a chat channel

Reward: 2000 Credits

To join a channel, click the chat icon to expand it.
Channels with a padlock are open by invitation only.

### Redeem a daily reward

Reward: 2000 Credits

There are even special bonus rewards which grow bigger for each consecutive day played!
To redeem your reward, complete your first battle for the day and hit the Redeem button after the battle ends.

### Complete "Combat Training I"

Rewards: 2000 Credits, Combat Ribbon Booster: Combat Movement

### Complete "Tactical Training I"

Rewards: 2000 Credits, Combat Ribbon Booster: Tactical

### Progress to level 3 on any ribbon

Rewards: 2000 Credits, Combat Ribbon Booster: Infantry Assault

Levelling up a ribbon unlocks new weapons, vehicles, upgrades and equipment.
To see all available ribbons in the game, click this button.
To see more detailed progress as well as item unlocks associated with a ribbon, simply select a ribbon and click the View Progression button.

### Reach Player Level 10

Rewards: 2000 Credits, Combat Ribbon Booster: Recon

### Repair a vehicle

Reward: 2000 Credits

As a vehicle wears out, the background bar fills up and becomes increasingly more red. Once a vehicle breaks, you will not be able to use it in battle until it has been fully repaired.
To repair a vehicle, click the maintenance icon.
If you prefer to have your vehicle automatically repaired after every battle, click the appropriate checkbox.

### Resupply Vehicle Ammo

Reward: 2000 Credits

To resupply a vehicle's ammo, click the maintenance icon and choose to resupply using either credits or gold.
If you prefer to have your vehicle automatically resupplied after every battle, click the appropriate checkbox.

### Switch to another soldier in battle

Reward: 2000 Credits

Tanks causing you trouble? Having a second infantryman with anti-tank weaponry in your roster might be just the ticket to even out the odds.
In order to switch to another soldier, click the Soldier Switch button.
If the resources are available in battle, you can even switch to a different soldier class. Note that changing to a different class than the one you entered into battle with will incur a higher maintenance load.
The maintenance load determines how fast you can deploy a new soldier after one gets killed. If your soldiers get killed too quickly, the maintenance crew becomes overloaded and you may need to wait before you can deploy again. For every soldier, the maintenance load is depicted as a circular bar.

### Equip a vehicle

Reward: 2000 Credits

To equip a vehicle, make sure the vehicle tab is selected in your soldier's loadout. Then click and drag a vehicle from the inventory into a slot in the loadout. To remove it, drag it back.
Note that only vehicles unlocked and owned by your soldier will be available for use. New vehicles and equipment will unlock as your soldier progresses.

 **Note:** This in-game tutorial is copied-over from 'Equipping a weapon', a soldier actually has 4 vehicle slots regardless of Veteran Membership status
### Deploy with a vehicle in battle

Reward: 2000 Credits

Should you have the need to deploy on foot, simply click the boots.
Your vehicle's armor (shown as four quarter circle) deflects some of the damage, but will protect less and less as it wears down.
Component damage will affect the handling and capabilities of your vehicle, but will not destroy it. Direct hits to ammunition compartments or the gas tank will generate a lot of damage, however.
Once the total vehicle health nears zero, it's advisable to get out as it's likely to explode and kill you in the process.

### Invite a friend

Reward: 2000 Credits

To get started, open your Friends list by clicking the friends icon.

### Create a squad

Reward: 2000 Credits

Squads not only let you join battles with a team of friends - they also provide XP bonuses for everyone. The bigger the squad, the higher the XP bonus.
In addition, the Squad Leader is able to issue commands to his squad mates and switch attack lines during battle if new ones become available.
The maximum size of a squad is also determined by the class and ranges from 2 to 4 players.
To create a squad, make sure you seclect a soldier with the class you want to create a squad for. I.e. to create an infantry squad, select an infantryman. Then click the squad icon.
Customize the squad name to your liking or leave it as is. Once your squad is populated, close the dialog.
As the Squad Leader, you decide the game mode. Click TO BATTLE as usual to select one.

### Equip an anti-tank weapon

Reward: 2000 Credits

Sticky grenades require you to get up close and personal, but makes it easy to target specific internal components of a tank.
Anti-tank mines are safer and require a greater deal of luck, but are great for protecting higher traffic areas, inroads or bridges.
Rocket launchers provide a decent compromise of safe distance and precision.
Each tank is different, however, so do your research and figure out where internal components are located and where the armor is weakest.

### Play any "Capture & Hold" game mode

Rewards: 2000 Credits, Combat Ribbon Booster: Physical Training

Each faction starts at opposite access points and may attack the objective points in any order.
The faction that holds the most objective points will gain victory points.
Each team's access point (starting point) on the map will determine by which supply route their assault teams arrived from.
The first faction to fill the bar wins.
The icons beneath the bar indicate which objective point is being held by which faction at any given time.

### Equip a weapon upgrade

Reward: 2000 Credits

To manage your upgrades for a weapon, click on the icon as shown.
To apply an upgrade, select one from the list and tick the checkbox next to it to activate it.
Note that the list shows all upgrades - even ones your soldier has not unlocked yet. An upgrade needs to be unlocked and owned by your soldier in order to be applied.

### Equip a vehicle upgrade

Reward: 2000 Credits

To manage upgrades for a vehicle, click on the icon as shown.
To apply an upgrade, select one from the list and tick the checkbox next to it to activate it.
Note that the list shows all upgrades - even ones your soldier has not unlocked yet. An upgrade needs to be unlocked and owned by your soldier in order to be applied.

### Equip custom ammo on a vehicle

Reward: 2000 Credits

Same tutorial as 'Equip a vehicle upgrade'

### Play any "Assault" game mode

Rewards: 2000 Credits, Combat Ribbon Booster: Defense

## Other Tutorials

Some tutorials are not linked to Career Orders and are found by navigating to the help button in the options menu.

To deploy your soldier, click an available point on the battlefield overview map and then select a deploy zone.
Infantry Support Vehicles are of particular strategic value because they act as mobile deploy points. Parking such a vehicle near an enemy control point will give your team the ability to deploy right in the enemy's backyard.

Early career orders are designed to help teach you the ins and outs of Heroes & Generals as well as providing you with rewards for each completed order.
Your orders are accessible from the top right corner of the Soldiers screen.
Click them to open the full list of orders.
As you progress, orders will eventually get tougher and rewards will get bigger.
Many career orders also come with tutorials to help you out. Click the tutorial-buttons to get help.

Every battle fought in this mode is visible on the war map and you can follow the tides of war in real time.
Glowing points on the map are battles that can be fought by you and other players. Click a location to see more info.
Winning the war requires one faction to capture 15 of the 23 major cities.
Clicking a battlefield occupied by your faction will show you information about the assault teams located there.
The battles you fight in other game modes take place outside of major battlefields and will not be visible on the war map.
The outcomes of those battles do contribute to the war in an indirect way though, as salvageable resources left on the battlefield by retreating enemies get added to your faction's resource stockpile.

To view all your progression in a single place, click the Progression tab.
From the Progression overview you can keep track of upcoming Player Level unlocks by scrolling along the horizontal axis.
Each soldier class also comes with a host of specializations and each one can be clicked to open the Specialization overview.
To return to the Progression overview, click the arrow button.