Aphotic

I usually play maggotkin, which struggles with rend. I have death as well.

His wizard tends to be either a hidden branchwych or arlielle, which can ambush, so getting rid of her is difficult. If he ambushes arlielle he holds the bird back so it cant get hit without its buff. The +1 to wound doesnt apply to the mount?

I guess it gets plus one to hit rolls and to wound for the warlord trait; I meant to type 3+. Just seems excessive with all the shrugs and negative to wound etc.

A local guy has been completely trashing most players with a list I havent seen anywhere else Arlielle Anointed on frost Phoenix 50 dark shards Flame Phoenix Fulcrum It's got massive threat saturation. I play nighthaunt or legions and have tried many things with the exception of legion of grief. I've played beasts, maggotkin, death, I've tried everything short of nagash to try and beat this list. It seems to me an impossible task with the target saturation he has. He ambushes arlielle on turn one, summons a treelord, ambushes the Phoenix and you either get hit with a full health arlielle or jammed with a 2+ rerolling 1's frost Phoenix with a 4 up shrug. The shooting the list throws out is really intense and the ambushing shooting is almost as bad as the ambushing big guys. Help?

A local guy is playing living cities with an anointed on frost Phoenix plus arlielle. The frost Phoenix seems insanely overpowered. 2+ with rerolling ones due to shield and a 4+ shrug. The guy seems impossible to kill and the list has so many threats none of us are able to do anything against it. Is it just me or is this anointed completely ridiculous?