Squad New Player Guide: From Tutorial to First Match
A practical beginner's guide to Squad — setup, roles, squads, spawning, communication, and the habits that make experienced players glad you joined.
Game: Squad
Squad guides & training
Everything we have written about playing Squad well, in one place — from your first ever match to running an armour squad. Written by people who run the servers and play every week. No login, no fluff.
The four most useful pages
- New Player Guide — tutorial to first match.
- Communication — the skill that changes everything.
- Squad Leading — the hardest job, made approachable.
- Squad server rules — five minutes, and the authoritative version.
Start here
Your First Squad Match: What to Expect
A minute-by-minute walkthrough of your first Squad match — staging, spawning, moving with your squad, dying well, and finishing the round wanting more.
Playing and leading
Squad Communication Guide: Mic & Callouts
How communication actually works in Squad — voice channels, the callout formula, radio discipline, and the habits that make squads effective.
How to Squad Lead: A Practical Guide
Squad leading demystified — what the job actually is, your first time with the SL kit, giving orders, rallies and HABs, command net, and recovering from chaos.
Squad Roles & Kits: What to Pick and Why
Every infantry role in Squad explained — what each kit does, which suit new players, and how to pick a role your squad actually needs.
Squad Vehicles: Etiquette, Crewing & Server Rules
How vehicle claims, crewing, and etiquette work in Squad — and the specific vehicle and helicopter rules on Command Squad servers.
Our servers
How Squad Server Seeding Works (and Why It Matters)
What seeding is, the special rules that apply during it, why every full server owes its evening to seeders, and how Command Squad rewards consistent help.
Finding & Connecting to Command Squad Servers
Every way to join a Command Squad server — one-click Steam links, in-game browser search, direct connect, and fixes for the most common connection problems.
Squad Training Videos
Command Squad's staff-reviewed Squad training video library — curated, credited, privacy-conscious, with written key takeaways for every entry.
Remote Seeding Setup with Chrome Remote Desktop
Securely remote into your gaming PC with Chrome Remote Desktop to launch Squad and help keep Command Squad's servers seeded — even when you're away from home.
Rules and support
Rules Explained: The Intent Behind the Rules
Plain-language explanations of Command Squad's most-asked-about rules — main camping, vehicle claims, squad baiting, locking, and seeding — with examples.
Also worth reading
- Start Here — the cross-game onboarding pathway.
- Frequently asked questions — quick answers across the whole community.
- Player support — reports, appeals, reaching staff.
- How to play Galactic Contention — our Star Wars mod server, which runs on Squad.
- WARDOGS guides — our other game, if you play both.