[BesucherXia]

Looks like I am among the minority of Air-Bless fans. But still I would like to state my argument:

-FW-Bless is much more expensive than WA/WS. Since no pretender has initially FW path, open a new path and grab level 9 is a big investment.

I have made a small test, to get a F9W9 pretender for EA_TC you must pay at least 670 points with no consideration of Dominion (Dragon/Mother of Rivers), while the cost of W9A6 is just about 440 points for Frost Father. That's why I always leave my hand untouched when looking at F9W9 at least for some 25 gold guys. A9 is also a waste for WotFE IMO.

-F9 is always good to deal with defence intensive units/thugs. But please check the WotFE's 25 gold cost again, you can group them in great horde and overwhelm any thugs just make use of the multiple attack penalty. Dam16 is not so brilliant, but In EA there is not so many protection intensive units, while most of them have bigger problem to deal with WotFE's incredible defence/encumbrance combination as the drawing combat continues.

Honestly I have never tested EA TC with high bless in MP games. S9 can benefit more as a long term strategy comes into discussion, but I still believe just take W9A6 and you can make things better at starting phase since the only weakness of WotFE is no more question while TC is never considered to be lack of long term strategy.

Edit: some of my points are already covered by Jazzepi before I finish my post... Shame to be not so good with my English.