IPD Special Mission in P6

Having the same issue ran the special mission last time did t even realize I had to have 7 empire to run a 5 man team for the mission. Pretty lame that this issue has not been resolved no other mission has this issue that I can recall come on cg

So you must finish this battle when you've still got 7 toons available, but once you've cleared the battle you can still use the 2 un-used empire toons elsewhere in p6?
I'm just curious because that would be a somewhat usefull temporary sollution in case this still isn't resolved when i finally 7* my IPD.

This issue and the platoons needing all the empire toons really needs looked into.

Simplest solution until it's fixed is to do the special mission 1st.