I TOTALLY missed this with the amount of stuff I was updating yesterday!
The date for this mission is 4 March - the day after the Base Defense. Since there's a possibility of contract failure, but we have to arrange a real-world meetup, I'm willing to hande things like this:
1) IF you choose to take on this mission, we'll make the arrangements. There's no contract score penalty for not taking solo missions.
2) Regardless of what happens during the Base Defense, this game will still go forward.
3) Since you won't be at the October Game, we can actually go ahead and screw with the timeline a bit. We can play this mission IRL prior to the October game if that works better for you. I'd be the only one handling OPFOR, so we can do this at my house.
4) The flip side of #3 is that, if your schedule changes and you ARE able to make the October game, you wouldn't be able to play Reaper Lance at that game as a reinforcement.
5) If you'd like Logan or Lucas to join in, that's fine. However, solo missions cannot deploy reinforcements. It's *just* your lance.
6) The rewards are randomized between your unit and the overall unit. The first reward, as far as I can tell, will ALWAYS benefit the unit deployed on the solo mission. So you're guaranteed to get something out of it as long as you win the scenario.