Starting Stats
Raw recruits have the following possible statistics. Range, with maximum minus minimum in parens:
- TUs: 50-60 (11)
- Stamina: 40-70 (31)
- Health: 25-40 (16)
- Bravery: 10-60 (7 - only works in units of 10)
- Reaction: 30-60 (31)
- Firing Accuracy (FA): 40-70 (31)
- Throwing Accuracy (TA): 50-80 (31)
- Strength: 20-40 (21)
- Psi Strength (SST): 0-100 (101! and never changes)
- Psi Skill (SSK): Always 0; first Psi Lab training yields 16-24
- There is also an unknown skill in soldier.dat, values are 20-40 (21)
All the statistics are entirely random. So if you only want recruits with 60 TUs, you will retain 1 out of 11 recruits (9.1%). If you only want ones with 60 TUs and 70 FA, you'll only keep 1 in 351 recruits (1/11 * 1/31). Etc.
Generally, one fifth of recruits are female. Being fem does not affect stats; they get the same random values. There are five sets of first and last names (ostensibly British, French, German, Japanese, and Russian) from which are randomly chosen 20 first names and 20 last names. It is entirely possible to have two (or more?) people of the same name.
As yet, no one knows the purpose of the unknown stat. It does increase due to missions and kills, but doesn't have anything to do with psi. It may matter, or it may be an abandoned variable.