Long story short, I'm in the field trying to gather imagery with my hexacopter and I broke one of my motors. I can't ship a new motor out before the field season ends, do you think the hexacopter will compensate and still fly with only 5 motors? Or what if I took off one additional motor, and effectively made it a quadcopter?
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No.
A hex will not fly well with one motor missing. You end up with a horrible pitch-yaw or roll-yaw coupling. You may be able to do an emergency landing, but it would be very difficult to fly.
I have flown my Octo with 1, and even 2 motors disabled. I've even lifted off with 3 motors disabled, but that was really a stretch. To achieve true redundancy, you need an Octo at the least, better yet would be a decacopter.