How do you fight life magic?

So, played a game using the new army book for Tomb Kings, and I have no idea how it plays. I just didn't get there. First turn, my opponent's Teclis used Dwellers on my large archer unit with my Hierophant, Khalida, another Liche Priest, and 36 archers. Both my Hiero and Khalida died, along with 19 archers. Wasn't even irresistible. Khalid's curse di manage to kill Teclis in return, but the damage was more than done.
So how does everyone fight the dreaded Dwellers? What works what doesn't? General or army specific, I am just looking for a chink.

well high elves r really powerfull with magic and if they have teclis. u need to fly a necrophix into him and direct all attacks and kill him he has no save plus i belive it will be a fair trade

That's an idea, 'cept he hit me first turn before I could do anything.

does that spell have a range

Yes. 12" or 24" if cast at the higher value.

I have the same problem with Ogres and Pit of Shades/Purple Sun of Lulz.

I'm not sure what items Tomb Kings have, but one way around first turn shenanigans is to make them AFRAID to cast spells that turn. I tend to run a Hellheart for that case. Also, close the distance as QUICKLY as possible, kill the wizard quick as DoeDoe said.

But yes, tests or remove from play are probably the worst thing GW has come up with

At least your skele's aren't 3 wounds and 43 points at the least >.<

see its 24 in so the necro also has fly ability as well so most likely there will only be one mean castere so take care of him and u will be fine i promise

and remember never chanllenge just direct ur attacks at him

DoeDoe, the problem is that turn one Magic Phase on a roll of Double "2", Teclis is dumping 6 Dice into Dwellers. Army eated turn one. Turn freaking one. Turn one. Dwellers is trash. Yeah CW, I think a prohibitive magic item is your best bet.

Scroll of Shielding is really good for spells cast with irresistible force. Doesn't dispel, because you can't, instead giving the target of the spell a 4+ ward save.

Couple things:
Necrosphinx's max charge range is 22". The spell is 24", and he doesn't need to be within 24" of the Sphinx to hit my Heiro.
As for the ward, Dwellers ignores ward saves including magic resist. Also, I don't think you can use "instead of dispelling" items when you can't dispel.

the way to beat it is to be ready for it take magic items to help combat what the lore can do and to try to only have one character in each squad so dwellers does not have clear targets

Id say dont start 12 inches forward with your key unit. Put it on your back line so it takes more then one turn to get to you. Also building some good magic defence is a strong path like what darkbrotherhood was saying.

The problem is, I have 1 key target in the entire army.

When he is in a unit of 36 archers that need to be within 24", its kinda rough as well.

I am totally revamping my list anyway, so what I used to do doesn't have much relevance now, I guess.

Everytime they change a codex it means you cant play the same list you used to thats kinda par for the course.
The thing im having a hard time with is that you know the lore they are going to pick before you even set your armys up. So if they have spells you know are going to give you truble with a wizard that is fully capable of getting those spells off then you should be prepared to change your tackt before you even deploy. The main question you posed was how do you deal with lore of life. And i still say deploy farther back for the first turn. Tomb king archers do not suffer from moving and shooting so its not that big of a deal if you start farther back as you can move cast your move spell and then shoot. And it prevents the turn one own you in the face spell.

As far as a turn 2 own you in the face spell you can do what doedoe sugested as you will have had more time to get your Necrosphinx in range for a charge or chariots or what have you. And again most metas have some strong magic in them so building a solid magic defence is going to be everyones concern for any list. Also no spell in the game ignores magic resistance you should always get that save unless im reading the magic resistance rules wrong and there are a few good cheap magic resistance items in the main book you can use.

Not sure that helps and its just the way i would play it there are definatly more ways to do it then that. If you look at this mounths white dwarf you can see they put the archers behind the two units of warriors for turn one as he was counting on having the move from the spell to help him get LoS. Now it did not work out for him but he admits he should have try to force more dice into that critical spell. But it also keep him safe turn one as the High elves did not have there own LoS to his herophant.

I face the same problem with demons. Lore of light has that special thing that hurts undead and demons more then anything eles. What they did for Demons is they have a magic item for just that lore. I havent seen the book yet, but you should check it to see if you got anything that helps against that lore.

There isent they nerfed the magic items in all the 8th ed stuff and as a result your mainly picking stuff from the main warhammer book.

Actually, it is how do YOU fight life magic, just an idle speculation thread.

Magic resist gives bonus to your ward save. Only ~11 of the 56 spells in the book allow ward saves. MR is useless in this edition. If I move my archer back, they just insta kill my screaming skull catapults and casket, even on the back edge they are 4" or 5" on.

The problem with anti magic is it can't stop irresistible force. And 6 dice into a spell or power scrolls aren't exactly rare events.