I think we need to take a step back and re-examine equipment allocations among these missions.
I think there is a lot of equipment optimization that we can take advantage of via trading. Rule is that we can SEND one item to another player each round. Presumably this is the last round…
Mission 1 - DEF + HP, one member of each category
Mission 2 - POW + DEF + HP
Mission 3 - SEN + HP (my first take is that we can load up ONE member with enough SCI to survive Mission 3 and provide the highest protective benefit to M1) That member should offload whatever piece of equipment would best benefit someone else
Mission 4 - SCI +SEN +DEF
Mission 5
