Not enough to soldiers to progress in the campaign

[zoltar]

I always recruit and immediately dismiss all new recruits so that I get their items (was only using one non-hero unit anyway), but now the game will not let me play the next mission because most hero units are banned from the mission and I don't have enough recruits to satisify the minimum number of units on the mission.

Is there a way to load an earlier mission, before I dismissed all the recruits, or perhaps a cheat code to add new recruits to the pool? Any help is appreciated, I'm certainly not starting a new campaign just because I dismissed some useless recruits.

[⎝⧹autarch⧸⎠]

I get dismissing excess recruits, but why wouldn't you just leave the recruits for a full roster by default, I mean there was no benefit and actually took more effort lol
as a desperate last resort I'd look on nexusmods

[Magic Bang]

haha

[zoltar]

There is no button to automatically unequip the entire roster, so it was extremely annoying that a lot of the gear I wanted to equip was already used by soldiers I would never use. When you try to equip stuff used by other soldiers, the game assumes you can identify everyone by their first name and class. I wasted too much time on this, and the fastest way to free up their gear was to dismiss the soldier.

Allowing the game to softlock by doing this is unbelivable, especially since the game only has a single savegame. Considering how much effort the developers put into graphics and presentation, you would think they would not allow obvious flaws like this to pass through QA.

Anyway, I eventually gave in and restarted the campaign. Keeping a full roster at all times now. This is not a game I will replay after I beat it (because of how scripted and linear everything is), so my issues with the UI soon will not matter.