Is the GTS worth delaying in WotC?

[K. the Land-Surveyor]

I'm still in my first C/I campaign, in early June, and I'm pretty sure my early build order went Resistance Ring -> GTS -> Proving Ground

But I really feel like I got very little for prioritizing the GTS. With all of the previous bonuses being moved into Resistance Orders, and the only bonus that doesn't require a Captain being Squad Size I, does it really need to be built so soon? Between being able to send rookies on Covert Ops to get Squaddie as well as getting a Captain taking forever, it really feels like I could've left the GTS until late May or something.

I can definitely see prioritizing it early if you can get Live Fire Training early on, but otherwise I feel like I could've put a Resistance Comms or Infirmary in its place.

[Tie]

Yeah I feel like I wasted my time going for it first now. I dont know what the training center can do yet, but I feel like I should have went that route for the bonds.

[Tamiore]

On legend GTS is still a day 1 build.
By the time it finishes construction, you will be able to get squad size I right away, and you REALLY need it.
Training center is hardly useful in very early game — you don't have high enough ranking soldier to actually train.

[Egro]

If you have a couple of really good PCS you want to use then you'll need GTS, otherwise I go for the Infirm first because the amount of wounded I have is ridiculous. :D

[Uottafac]

The GTS has lost most of its old tactics because of covert ops. The only must have tactics are squad size 1 & 2.

Training Center lets you retrain soldiers, unlock the XCOM abilities for vanilla classes and is needed to level up a bond between soldiers.

[Player]

I didn't use bonds that much, I think training center can be put off to later, you have to level the bonds too anyway

[XeidiDent]

Personally, I think that getting squad size I is too important to delay, so, I build it asap.

[.O.]

I still go for GTS first because I like being able to train rookies to fill specific needs.

[Tamiore]

I don't see any competition to GTS as first building TBH.
You will not be needing resistance ring until month 2, so you might as welll build it second.
And training center is just flat out useless until after your soldiers have gained at least a couple of ranks.

[kingsims]

Training Center is near useless.

1. Its only useful if you have 3 more level 2 bond mates. Otherwise the investment is not worth it. You want one for your A,B,C team
2. Retrain is not really required if you played the game once already and you know the good picks from the bad ones.
3. Unlocking other character abilities (Again its nice to have a healer hacker combo) But i dump all my points into the Templar and Reaper. Because they are need to need to counter the chosen. The Will PCS goes to them as well because you want them to last the longest.

Here is my combo

Guerilla Tactics School --> Resistance Ring ---> Infirmary (You can swap the resistance ring and infirmary depending on the number of injuries).

I rush 2 area expansion for the first month (Unless its an engineer or Scientist). Squad Size I and Squad Size II should be rushed Asap along with Mag weapons.

[Fringehunter7719]

Originally posted by kingsims:

3. Unlocking other character abilities (Again its nice to have a healer hacker combo) But i dump all my points into the Templar and Reaper. Because they are need to need to counter the chosen. The Will PCS goes to them as well because you want them to last the longest.

Other characters have their own pool of ability points, if you don't have a training centre, you can't spend those on your templar or reaper. Across all your other characters that's a lot of unused resources after a few months.

It does depend exactly how long you have in mind for deferral though, of course.