Thanks for a quick answer! ;)

@Lampros If there is a problem it will be.

Will this be updated to be DLC-compatible?

i needed this so much a while ago...thx bro

LW 2 has a XComGameCore.ini with that value defined at 20. Try un-subbing and re-subbing to the More Starting Soldiers mod to get its value back.

Any way to make this LW-compatible? :(

Thank you for your answer. I actually want only my character pool, that's why I ask.

@Johnrenicus It will start you with a mix of CP and RNG Soldiers if you use "Character Pool and Random" for soldiers generation, iirc.

The starting 40 soldiers are taken from my character pool, right? Thing is, I only have a character pool of 40 soldiers. What happens afterwards? Are they taken randomly, or does the mod cycles my pool again?

No, it works- just not for LW2.

So, the mod doesn't work anymore I take it?

@falloutguy2999:
You probably don't need this mod if you're running LW 2.

@CastledCard is this mod working? i only ask because i am running LW2 and i do not want to fuck up my game

@OhDC Thanks alot.

:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\workshop\content\268500\844674609\Config - XComGameCore.ini
First line of this file has the starting barracks number fyi

yeah I cant find the barracks number in the ini anywhere

@Kizkut Long War 2 probably has the number changed somewhere in its ini files.

anyone else not having this mod work with LW2? I only get 20 soldiers in barracks at start.

14 in the base + the four on gatecrasher = 18.

So, having 18 starting soldiers will give me 4 gatecrasher rookies(if they survive) plus 14 in barracks, correct?

@boisegangpc Yes, they count as well.

If I have it set to 18 soldiers, do the starting 4 rookies count?

Where is the mod folder located(its numerical address in the "268500" folder)?

@Phantom It's in the mod folder

Hello is there an config ini file where i can set my own value for starting soldiers? thanks.

@Legion Prime It should but I haven't played the game since then

Is there a mod to increase the amount of soldiers available for recruitment immediately? I think that would be more balanced, and it would also make the LWtoolbox mod work better, because new recruits that come into the pool don't have randomized stats at the moment.

I had to start a new campaign anyways, and it worked.

@Nasarog 40, just like Long War

How many soliders do you start with on Legend difficulty?

@Shawalla Nope, it's starting soldier, it won't make soldiers pop out of the blue.

can I use this somehow with existing saves (so I do not need to start again)?

I eventually solved it by deleting the Config folder.

@CastledCard Ok I went in the config to change it but the number was already set to 8

@n0guns 8 according to the DefaultGameCore

@CastledCard cool I will try that. what is the default number though?

@N0guns go to Documents\My Games\XCOM2\XComGame\Config edit XComGameCore then find NUM_STARTING_SOLDIERS and change the number to what you want.

@CastledCard I did that but nothing changed when a new game was started

Thanks for replying. I think it was probably caused by another mod.

@Kadota Verifying game cache and unsubing from the mod would fix it.

I unsubscribed from this mod but I'm still getting a large number of starting soldiers. Can anyone tell me how to change this?

Yep, that looks exactly what i was looking for :)

@DerBK BAM https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=626291285

I use that option form the charpool, but it seems to not work with the additional rookies. My Gatecrasher guys are all from the pool and the scientists/VIPs/engineers are as well. It's just the extra soldiers from your mod that apparently ignore that option :(

Eh, it's nothing to lose sleep around, just an inconvenience. I might have to look into using a mod that enables uniforms or something.

@DerBK I've had that issue to. It use to be that you change the ini to PoolOnly, RandomOnly, or MixedOnly for stuff like starting soldiers and reward characters like engineers. If you go to your character pool and go to the bottom you'll see an option to change how often the character pool is used.

Is there a way to make the additional soldiers draw from the character pool instead of being randoms? Ever since Anarchys children, i really loathe seeing those messy random guys and having to change all of them.

OMG you used the names from that NFL skit by Key and Peele!!! You win the internet :-)

Not sure if I'll use this or not, but just wanted to say that I am a huge fan of your trooper names. I might have to make some of mine named A-aron or Jay-quellin.

nvm i figured it out

is it possible to increase it to more than 25 by editing the num_starting_soldiers ? if so what file is that located in?