Frost Phoenix

[Paran]

Hi,

I have not managed to kill one of those frozen turkey's. I normally avoid it and cover my flanks with re-directors. This works against one of them, but I doubt I can do this against two of them.

Any recommendations for killing them?

I have just purchased a terrorgiest. Hopefully I will have it built for the weekend, but relying on one tactic/unit makes an easy target.

Cheers,

Paran

 

[Yorga]

Screams.

 

[RarerMonsters]

Poisoned Attacks, or a VL with Ogre Blade and OTS

 

[Kingside_Bishop]

I've killed one or two with my blender lord... It wasn't too problematic I don't think, but maybe my opponent had positioned it poorly.

 

[RarerMonsters]

The thing to remember is that Frost Phoenixes aren't combat powerhouses: they're essentially uncounterable debuffs. Be glad if an opponent takes two, it means fewer (superior) sisters of Avelorn.

The real counter is trying to control your combats to get the advantage so that you can win before the phoenix comes in or at least have an advantage after. The phoenix is only dangerous in that it can combine with Phoenix Guard or White Lions.

Hang back far enough that you can avoid combo charges and the FP becomes much less scary.

 

[benfm]

Make sure you pick the fight against it.
Frost Pheonix is not hard to kill, just depends what you decide to throw at it.

Last two times I played HEs I managed to run my ghoul horde into it. There is no way it can survive the sheer volume of poison attacks.

The only unit I really have problems with against HEs is the Pheonix Guard. Just so hard to kill!

 

[DrunkenDane]

I just to be so scared of the phonenixes and in my last game my opponent brought one of each.
Then I started to just charge the frost one with knights and a blender lord and tie the other up with zombies and scream it dead.

I have not tried ghould against them yet but I agree they seem to be designed for this kind of thing.

 

[Paran]

Cheers for the responses. I have only once tried the blender lord in a BK buss. I will try it again and hopefully do better with it this time.

 

[Aurelion117]

Another great way of holding the Phoenix is just sheer numbers, its debuffs are great but in combat it usually cannot reliably kill that many of your bigger hordes. Even a unit of Zombies could reliably hold up a Frostie if there is enough of them, and thanks to Invocation, that is usually the case. The true strength of it is the combo charges it can make with other Elve units, or even killing ethereal 's due to its magical attacks.

 

[Seneschal]

Screams or a VL on Hellsteed if you feel like hunting it, just be careful of bolt throwers and other possible dangers.