Complete Enlisted Guide 2025: Strategies, Mechanics, and Tips

Enlisted is a multiplayer shooter. Its main differences from other games are that all events occur from a first-person perspective, and the player must command an entire squad. Unlike other shooters, the main focus here is on choosing the right strategy for fighting in different conditions, utilizing available resources in equipment and manpower, and supporting heavy weapons.

How do you play Enlisted? What are the basic mechanics used in the game? And what is the best way to level up your squad?

Main Features and Mechanics of Enlisted

In Enlisted, up to 20 people can be on the battlefield simultaneously. Ten of them are on defense, while others are attacking. The player controls an entire squad. It includes from 2 to 6 fighters of different specializations. Which ones does the player choose before starting a new mission?

The main task is to upgrade your squad and increase your own rank as a commander. This determines how many fighters you can take into the squad, what skills they will have, and what equipment will be available to them.

The player can switch between his squad’s fighters in real time or automatically after killing the current one.

The game is distributed under the scheme of free-to-play. For donations, here are available:

1. Premium subscription. Accelerates the account upgrade; the player gets more experience for each battle.
2. Premium squads. These are specially trained squads with unique skins, weapons, and skills. They also receive an additional bonus of silver for each battle. Premium squads are conditionally divided into effective, with which you can win even difficult battles, and collectible.
3. Battle Pass. For participation in it, you get additional experience points, you can get special equipment, or take part in the distribution of silver.
4. Instant increase in the level of the squad or the fighter who is part of it.
5. Special skins and weapons are available. These sales are temporary; such weapons will not appear in the regular store in the future.

Donations are not intrusive. Without it to upgrade your squad to the maximum combat power is quite realistic. And if you invest money, the best option is a battle pass or premium subscription. With them, you can speed up the upgrade about 5 times. And on the eve of the holidays, there are often sales with discounts of up to 90%.

Registering and Installing Enlisted

Our site has a detailed article on registering, downloading, and installing Enlisted and a guide to the game’s first launch.

How to Set Up Enlisted

Optimal Enlisted settings, settings for weak PCs and laptops, graphics settings, controls and interface – about all this in a separate article.

Getting Started – Enlisted Beginner’s Guide

Each battle starts with the distribution of units. It is necessary to place fighters in free cells. Each one has his specialization:

1. Regular fighters. They are weak and only use semi-automatic weapons.
2. Mortars. Use light portable mortar systems. Provide fire support for the rest of the squad.
3. Snipers. Attack from afar using rifles with telescopic sights.
4. Armor-piercers. Use portable anti-tank missile systems in combat. It can attack air targets at low altitudes and shoot down falling bombs.
5. Stormtroopers use submachine guns in combat and provide a powerful volley of small arms fire, preventing the enemy from leaving their hiding places.
6. Machine Gunners. Use light machine guns. But they have limited ammunition, so you need to save ammo. Using them to suppress enemy points is recommended while stormtroopers or fighters approach the rear.
7. Engineers. Can build shooting points with good cover. However, the structures are not resistant to mortar fire.
8. Medics. They treat squad members. And they have a special perk: they can leave crates with medicines on the battlefield to replenish their health.
9. Radiators. Call for reinforcements for air attacks and artillery fire. They give a powerful volley, but they have a long reload time.
10. Special fighters, including tankers, pilots, motorcyclists, and airborne troops, are unavailable at initial player levels.

How do you explore the map in Enlisted? The game map features recovery points. They are marked with large or small flags. The large ones are the base revival points. The small ones are those created by other players on the same team.

Another nuance: the game has active and passive transportation. The first is used in combat, and the second is a decoration. Sometimes, players have difficulties distinguishing between the two. The easiest option is to point the camera at the vehicle and press the V key. If it is an active armored personnel carrier or tank, it will be marked with a marker. If it is a decoration, nothing will happen.

Game Modes

Before selecting a map in Enlisted, specify the game mode of interest. Available:

1. Capture. Stationary points are marked on the game map in any order. The squad’s task is to capture more of them and hold them until the end of the timer counter.
2. Invasion. Two sides of players are randomly selected, and each team has up to 10 players. The first are the attackers, the second defend the stronghold.
3. Assault. The mode is similar to Invasion. But there are several fixed points. You need to attack and defend them at the same time. The mode is more suitable for experienced players because moving equipment from one point to another is important.
4. Annihilation. The mode is similar to Counter-Strike. The team’s task is to plant explosives on the enemy’s stronghold and wait for them to explode. After that, the battle is over. The enemy can disarm the explosives.
5. Confrontation. The mode is similar to “Capture”. But control points are unlocked only after capturing the previous one.
6. Armored Train. The team’s task is to cover the armored train and deliver it to a point on the map.

For all game modes you can customize and save ready-made squad builds.

Upgrading and Development

Properly distributing the accumulated experience points is the main guide to upgrading Enlisted. There are 3 main branches for upgrade.

• The first one is squad improvements. These increase the squad’s capacity and the reward that the player receives for completing the battle.
• The second is class improvement. Each fighter can be upgraded separately, opening new skills for him. For example, an engineer can build support points faster, and radio operators’ speed of reloading air attacks will be reduced.
• The third branch – improvements to a particular model of weapons or equipment.

How to quickly upgrade an account in Enlisted? The most experience is credited for “Capture” and “Confrontation”. When using a premium account and a battle pass, the rate of upgrade increases about 5 times.

Weapons in Enlisted

The game features weapons from World War II. Most of them are submachine guns, rifles, machine guns, mortars, and anti-tank missile systems. Each fighter of a certain specialization uses a different arsenal after upgrades unlock the ability to use additional weapons.

And each country involved in the battle has a different arsenal. Stormtroopers, which most of and have to play, are the best German and American. Japanese and Soviet are less convenient. Also worth reading: What weapon in Enlisted to choose—Updated top.

Technique in Enlisted

Tanks, infantry vehicles (armored personnel carriers), motorcycles, and airplanes are available in Enlisted. An armored train can still be controlled in some game modes but moves only on a set course.

Most often, players use tanks. They have good firepower but are slow. They need cover from the flanks because the enemy can quickly reach the rear and set explosives. Each such explosion completely turns off the equipment. It cannot be repaired or restored before the battle ends, essentially becoming a decoration.

Special fighters and free cells limit the equipment a squad can use. At initial levels, only light equipment is available.

Enlisted Squad Management

Everything about squads: the best squads, upgrade and managing teams, how to manage squads in Enlisted.

Tactical Tips

Basic tips for beginners:

1. Snipers are the most useless in the game. Because the battles are dynamic, there are constant assaults at close distances from the enemy. Instead of them, it is better to use armored fighters. They also attack from cover, camouflage their location, and destroy the enemy’s equipment immediately.
2. First, you need to upgrade the fast recovery of stamina and reduce the scatter of bullets when shooting.
3. When the stamina reserve is minimal at the initial levels, you must move around the map from the control points. If the running speed has decreased, it is better to slow down and continue moving in a crouch or crawl: the chance of giving away your location will decrease.
4. How do I destroy tanks in Enlisted? Small arms do not damage them. Only mortars, artillery, and air strikes are effective against them. And the vehicles need to be attacked at the start of the mission.
5. There is also close combat in the game. But they rarely have to use them. Therefore, skills associated with this branch are upgraded in the last turn.

Also, the game menu has an extended guide to all missions. It is recommended that you read it at least once. The developers have left many useful tips and tricks to help you learn to manage your squad more correctly.

How to Drop Bombs in Enlisted

Bombs are dropped from an airplane. The main peculiarity is that you need to consider the spread of bombs when diving. It is enormous, and it is difficult to hit the vehicles. Therefore, attacking only entire columns of vehicles or at least groups of 2-3 units is recommended.

The best tactic when playing on an airplane is to circle over the battlefield. But stick to the distance at which neither opponents from the ground nor other pilots can attack.

How to Call an Air Strike in Enlisted in 2025

Only radio operators can call in air strikes. Their unique ability is to place markers on the map, which are fired on with heavy weapons. In the corner of the screen, there is a reload time meter. Markers are placed using the V key.

How to Uninstall Enlisted

You can uninstall the game from the application control menu in Windows. If you use the version installed from Steam, select “Properties” and then “Delete game data from your computer.” The account is saved, as the game supports cloud saves. Progress on missions purchased weapons, and special combinations of units are also saved.

You can reset the account data from the game menu. To completely delete your profile – you need to contact technical support. Accounts are not automatically deleted, even if the player has not entered the game for over 12 months.

All in all, Enlisted is one of the most feature-rich shooters out there. It is really difficult to master for beginners. But the assaults here are the most realistic, also compared to Call of Duty or Battlefield. And there is more varied upgrade.