Wow, its not often we lose a scenario. Most of the losses I can remember are in set 1 when no one has any good powers are upgrades. This scenario I believe was an eye opener for some players that are really reliant on blessings.
Doesn't help we had two losses to that Norgorber Cultist Set 5 bad guy that trashes 1d4 blessings, along with two failed checks at Gannet Island for two more 1d4 blessings lost. This added in with the blessings lost to playing blessings did us in.
I'm looking forward when the PbP table I'm a part of gets that far, then! I'm in the same boat (ha-ha, Ship rule joke), and rarely find troubles occurring after the first adventure in most Seasons/APs too. (Even my experience with the Season 4 capstones were that they were relatively trivial for the 5-man group I was a part of.)