Week three marks the beginning of the escalation of the Journeyman League at the Rogue’s Roost.  This week, players are allowed to bring up to ten additional points in warjacks or warbeasts.  This is a tough choice for a lot of armies, because it’s tricky to fit – ten points is not a lot, and it has to be something that will help the army at both a few points (for the early weeks of the Journeyman), but also be worthwhile later at higher point games (for the later weeks of the Journeyman).

For this reason, I chose to take the Ghordson Basher – one of my favorites.

This week, my single match was against William’s Legion, this time reinforced with a new Nephilim Protector.

This match was a pretty complex dance of positioning on both of our parts.  I really wanted to get my Basher and Driller into a slam lane and charge lane respectively whereas Will seemed to be jamming up everything with his Neraph and Nephilim Protector (they are, unsurprisingly, faster than my Rhulic ‘jacks).  My retaliation was mostly successful – the Driller drilled and the Basher slammed, but I never seemed to have enough focus to finish stuff off.  I think it was mostly due to the fact that I had to boost to hit a lot…  Luckily, he didn’t have enough hitting power with his counter-attack, so I was able to live another turn and take out Kryssa the following turn.