I'm already close to failing to max the free track

We're a few days into the new episode experience and I'm already very close to failing to be able to max the free track as a FTP player (who only spends on LSBs).

I play every day, do my dailies and FTP episode quests but these first two GCs have pretty much removed the possibility of reaching milestone 50.

1st GC 2,425 episode points lost as I couldn't beat tier VII with my rebel fighters.

2nd GC 8,250 episode points lost as my tuskens can't beat tier IV or get momentum 150 times tier I.

That's a total of 10,675 episode points already lost.

250,000 episode points are required to reach milestone 50.

I've calculated 265,800 episode points are possible FTP. I have nearly failed to reach milestone 50 already. Very demotivating.