BrotherErmak

I agree with skaianDestiny. Players are free to choose either play the tutorial and get a fixed starting squad plus some randomized soldiers that were (so to speak) recently arrived. Either skip the tutorial and get a fully randomized starting squad as planned. Otherwise, there are reasons in Komandos` suggestion. This solution will please those players (and I think there are a lot of them) who care about the "role-playing" component of the game (because why all these renaming of names and surnames), plus it plays for emotional involvement: hey, this Sebilian just killed my stormtrooper, who was a veteran who survived the siege of the original base! How on earth did that happen?

I suggest to transfer surviving soldiers from the Prologue (training mission) to the main game to get more immersion and player involvement in the game's plot (as done in XCom1 and 2; or Phoenix Point).