[Shovah32]

Bless strats are very strong and popular, especially on small maps. F9W9 is a common bless used with units like vans, it makes them extremely hard to hit and have great damage potential. Bless strats are very powerful and easy to use but each has a weakness, alot of sacreds cant take damage leaving them open to AoE spells like falling fires/frost, the tougher sacreds are either so poor at damage that they can just be swamped or so expensive that a few decent mages/crossbow groups can slaughter them (especially astral mages) even with low research.

In the long run, if your bless dosnt let you take out some-one else asap you can get left behind because your poor scales will leave you behind in gold, allowing the enemy to out mage and therefor out-everything you by mid-late game.