Guaranteed receipt of a fixed amount of resources after successful completion of the mission.
Defeat - does not provide resources.
Perhaps in DT2 it would have been possible to open resource stores that are under protection. As a minor event in a branch from the main mission route.
Having the ability to get EXTRA resources in addition to the guaranteed payout would be great.
I doubt very much presently that FS would be willing to put work into designing a “guarded drop point”, though, so honestly I’d be fine with just guaranteed payouts and leaving the resources as drops for bonuses – I’m noticing more and more folks just go for mission completion without TOO much faffing about gathering resources anyhow (particularly in Damnation) so it likely wouldn’t alter the habits folks are getting into lately anyhow.