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UPDATE
Instead of following the instructions here, you can also subscribe to the Better Advent plugin "All The Enemies!". That will do the changes as detailed below under "The proper solution" for you.
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Some of you are experiencing empty dropships on reinforcements since the last update to Better Advent. Here's what's happening and how to fix it:

Your reinforcement pod is only able to spawn a vanilla Captain for some reason. I disabled vanilla Captains with my workaround for the spawning issues, so your game is not able to create a pod.

The vanilla game uses the AdventGlobal list, a list of all units that may spawn in Advent pods, a list that i modified to know all my variants. So those will work. For Avenger defense, vanilla uses its own list available pod leaders, something i forgot about at first, leading to a bug that was reported within hours and is fixed by now. I modified the Avenger defense list with my hotfix to also know about the ABA captains.

If you are getting empty dropships on regular missions, some other mod is overwriting your AdventGlobal list. Likely candidates for that are other enemy mods that add Advent units.

There are two solutions to this conflict, an easy one and a proper one:

The proper solution:
Go into the missions.ini of those other mods and delete their modifications to the AdventGlobal lists (or comment them out by putting a ";" in front of the line). That should ensure that the Better Advent list with the captain variants is used by the game, making your reinforcements work again in the diverse fashion that i intended with ABA.
(Note that you would have to find every one of these to be sure that it works.
Also note that some non-enemy mods like Guerilla War also may have edited that line or messed with reinforcements some other way. In order to not break those mods, you will have to use the "easy" solution instead)


The easy solution:
Go into the GameData_Charstats.ini of Better Advent and re-enable the vanilla Captain. To do that, open that ini file and search (Ctrl+F) for "Captain". That should lead you to the following part:

; Regular Captain, adjusting Spawnweight
[AdvCaptainM1 X2CharacterTemplate]
-LeaderLevelSpawnWeights=(MinForceLevel=1, MaxForceLevel=7, SpawnWeight=15, MaxAlertSpawnWeight=12)
+LeaderLevelSpawnWeights=(MinForceLevel=1, MaxForceLevel=7, SpawnWeight=0, MaxAlertSpawnWeight=0)

[AdvCaptainM2 X2CharacterTemplate]
-LeaderLevelSpawnWeights=(MinForceLevel=8, MaxForceLevel=13, SpawnWeight=25, MaxAlertSpawnWeight=24)
+LeaderLevelSpawnWeights=(MinForceLevel=8, MaxForceLevel=13, SpawnWeight=0, MaxAlertSpawnWeight=0)

[AdvCaptainM3 X2CharacterTemplate]
-LeaderLevelSpawnWeights=(MinForceLevel=14, MaxForceLevel=20, SpawnWeight=46, MaxAlertSpawnWeight=46)
+LeaderLevelSpawnWeights=(MinForceLevel=14, MaxForceLevel=20, SpawnWeight=0, MaxAlertSpawnWeight=0)

Replace that with the following:

; Regular Captain, adjusting Spawnweight
[AdvCaptainM1 X2CharacterTemplate]
-LeaderLevelSpawnWeights=(MinForceLevel=1, MaxForceLevel=7, SpawnWeight=15, MaxAlertSpawnWeight=12)
+LeaderLevelSpawnWeights=(MinForceLevel=1, MaxForceLevel=7, SpawnWeight=1, MaxAlertSpawnWeight=1)

[AdvCaptainM2 X2CharacterTemplate]
-LeaderLevelSpawnWeights=(MinForceLevel=8, MaxForceLevel=13, SpawnWeight=25, MaxAlertSpawnWeight=24)
+LeaderLevelSpawnWeights=(MinForceLevel=8, MaxForceLevel=13, SpawnWeight=2, MaxAlertSpawnWeight=2)

[AdvCaptainM3 X2CharacterTemplate]
-LeaderLevelSpawnWeights=(MinForceLevel=14, MaxForceLevel=20, SpawnWeight=46, MaxAlertSpawnWeight=46)
+LeaderLevelSpawnWeights=(MinForceLevel=14, MaxForceLevel=20, SpawnWeight=3, MaxAlertSpawnWeight=3)

You will now have vanilla Captains again that will make any AdventGlobal list from any mod viable again. However, you will no longer see Captain variants because of the bug with the base game.