My 1st team was able to clear all the small pests along the way, but my ship HP was quite low at the end of that last fight.... if they had one more mission I think i'd fail it, and that was with a slice ship. Considering this is only the first whale ship mission and thus the easiest i'd say we're in for a tough ride.

It's not like my TP is low either, I was at 880k for my teams, tho that might have made it harder since it did say somewhere that the higher your TP the harder the missions or something. Can't remember where I saw that tho.