Barracks (LWR)

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In General

This facility houses your soldiers.

Soldier List

Here you can see the statistics and current status of your ground forces, and you can also customize them, change their equipment, promote them or retire them.

Officer Training School

Upgrades are unlocked based on the total number of successful missions during the game.

XTP and Officer training programs (LWR)
Upgrade	Effect	Prerequisites		Cost
		Required Upgrade	Successful Missions (Modified by Campaign Length)
XTP I	Institutes the XTP: Soldiers autopromote to SPEC and gain 4xp each day	-	10	400
XTP II	Institutes XTP II: Soldiers autopromote to LCPL and gain 8 XP and 2 Psi XP each day	XTP I	20	800
XTP III	Institutes XTP III: Soldiers autopromote to SGT and gain 20 XP and 4 Psi XP each day	XTP II	70	1200
Lieutenants	Allows the promotion of 3 Soldiers to Lieutenants.	-	15	150
Captains	Allows the promotion of 2 additional Lieutenants, and allows the promotion of 2 Lieutenants to Captains.	Lieutenants	30	300
Majors	Allows the promotion of 1 additional Lieutenant and Captain, and allows the promotion of 1 Captain to Major.	Captains	45	450
Elite Recruits / Colonels	Unlocks Elite Recruits (+1 HP, +2 aim, and +4 will) that are Spec Ops capable. Allows the promotion of 1 additional Lieutenant, Captain and Major, and allows the promotion of 1 Major to Colonel.	Majors	60	600
Field Commander	Allows the promotion of 1 additional Lieutenant, Captain, Major and Colonel, and allows the promotion of 1 Colonel to Field Commander.	Elite Recruits / Colonels	75	750

Note: XCOM Training Programmes (XTPs) grant their xp and promotions at midnight each day and only apply to active or fatigued soldiers

Psi Labs

Test up to 2 soldiers to discover their psionic ability. For more information click here: Psionic Training

The Memorial

Here you can see information about the soldiers who died in combat, as well as the cause of their death.

Recruit Soldiers

Each new soldier costs §140 and takes 12 days to arrive.

Every month that passes increases the cost by §20.

Every dead soldier reduces the cost by §5.

The minimum cost is §100.

You can only hire up to 10 soldiers at a time and the barracks limit is 99.

Note: Soldiers have daily salaries. For more information click here: Salaries

Officer Promotions

Here you can choose which of your Soldiers should become an Officer and to what rank they should be promoted. You can only assign titles that have already been purchased at the Officer Training School.

Each Officer must have completed at least 2 missions (modified by campaign length) since the last promotion.

Psionic Soldiers, MEC Troopers and S.H.I.V.s cannot be promoted to officers and officers cannot discover or develop psionic abilities or be augmented into MEC troopers. The only exception is where the 'Super Soliders' second wave option is used.

Soldier Ranks Required for Promotion
Solder Rank	Officer Rank Available
Private	None
Specialist	None
Lance Corporal	None
Corporal	Lieutenant
Sergeant	Captain
Tech Sergeant	Major
Gunnery Sergeant	Colonel
Master Sergeant	Field Commander

See also

• Officers

Long War Rebalance: Soldiers
Soldiers	Soldiers Assault Infantry Rocketeer Gunner Sniper Scout Medic Engineer
MEC	MEC Troopers Marauder Goliath Jaeger Shogun
Sub-classes and abilities	Officers Psionics Gene Mods S.H.I.V.s