Barracks (LWR)

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Effect	Home of all your soldiers and SHIVs
Adjacency Bonus	None
Prerequisites	None
Other	None
Build costs	| | | |
Normal	§0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0
Quick	§0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0
Maintenance	§0
Power	1

The campaign starts with 40 soldiers, unless starting with France's "Foreign Legion", in which case you start with 60 soldiers. The capacity of the Barracks is 100, this is including SHIVs. There are following options:

• View Soldiers. 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 fire them. However, unless the Barracks' capacity is full, there is never reason to fire your soldiers, as they draw no salary.
• View the Memorial. Here you can see information about the soldiers who died in combat, as well as the cause of their death.
• Hire Soldiers. Each new soldier costs §25 on all difficulties. They take 9 days to arrive.
• Officer Training School. You can buy officer training programs here. See Officer Training School (Long War).
• 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 officers' school. Officers should have high will stat, as they share it with the rest of the squad via the Lead by Example perk.
• Visit the Psi Labs. Test soldiers to discover their psionic ability. Each test lasts 5-8 days, this depends on soldier's will, which also determines the success chance. See Psionic Labs (Long War).

Effect	Increases to squad size and Officer training programs
Adjacency Bonus	None
Prerequisites	None
Other	One Soldier ranked as Corporal
Build costs	| | | |
Normal	§200 | - | - | - | 7
Quick	§300 | - | - | 10 | 4
Maintenance	§10
Power	1

Compared to vanilla XCOM Enemy Unknown/Within, the Officer Training School has changed dramatically. Many of the vanilla upgrades have been removed and instead replaced with Officer training programs.

Cannot be torn down once built.

Officer training programs

In addition, upgrades are unlocked based on the total ranks of living Soldiers during the game, instead of the vanilla requirements of a single soldier at a specific rank.

Increases to squad size and Officer training programs (Long War)
Upgrade	Effect	Prerequisites		Cost
		Upgrade	Total Ranks
Squad Size I	Increases the maximum squad size by 1, to a total of 7, allowing 1 additional Soldier, MEC Trooper or S.H.I.V. on most missions.	-	40	200
Squad Size II	Increases the maximum squad size by 1, to a total of 8, allowing 1 additional Soldier, MEC Trooper or S.H.I.V. on most missions.	Squad Size I	115	200
Tactical Officers	Allows the promotion of 3 Soldiers to Lieutenants.	-	20	100
Company Officers	Allows the promotion of 2 additional Lieutenants, and allows the promotion of 2 Lieutenants to Captains.	Tactical Officers	45	200
Field Officers	Allows the promotion of 2 additional Lieutenants and Captains, and allows the promotion of 2 Captains to Majors.	Company Officers	75	300
Regiment Officers	Allows the promotion of 2 additional Lieutenants, Captains and Majors, and allows the promotion of 2 Majors to Colonels.	Field Officers	110	400
Commanding Officer	Allows the promotion of 1 additional Lieutenant, Captain, Major and Colonel, and allows the promotion of 1 Colonel to Field Commander.	Regiment Officers	150	500

Soldier ranks

The total ranks are determined by adding the rank count of all living Soldiers together. Keep in mind that Privates have a rank count of 0, so hiring a ton of Privates will not unlock any upgrades.

Each Officer rank requires a minimum Soldier rank. In addition, the Soldier must have completed at least 5 missions since the last promotion (3 with the "Dynamic War" second wave option).

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.

Soldier ranks (Long War)
Rank	Rank count	Officer rank available
Private	0	None
Specialist	1	None
Lance Corporal	2	None
Corporal	3	Lieutenant
Sergeant	4	Captain
Tech Sergeant	5	Major
Gunnery Sergeant	6	Colonel
Master Sergeant	7	Field Commander

See also

• Officers

Long War: XCOM Facilities
Static Facilities	Overview Mission Control Research Engineering Barracks Hangar Situation Room
Constructible Facilities	Access Lift Alien Containment Elerium Generator Foundry Fission Generator Genetics Lab Gollop Chamber Hyperwave Relay Laboratory Officer Training School Psionic Lab Repair Bay Satellite Nexus Satellite Uplink Thermo Generator Workshop