How will you rank the VC bloodlines in 9.0?

For me, it is Lahmian > Necrach > Blood Dragon = Strigol > Von Carstein

Some notes:

Blood Dragon

The cavalry lord. Gives +15 armor and 5 def to cav. Walking Dead gives them another 12 armor, and the 1st tier of tech gives 20 armor... and you end up with 157 armor drakenhof templars that can just sit there and face tank things with hunger and some heals.

They have no innate spell casting bonus but they have super early access to WoD.

Lahmian

They have 20% innate physical resist and can get another 10% from mistform. If you pick up the A Love For Battle trait, that is 55% physical resist right out of the box. They lose the 20% PR when on a dragon for some reason (bug?). I am not sold on Coven Throne as a mount just yet; it is very strong vs infantry but you can get stuck every now and then.

They don't have any damaging AoE but spirit leech is always great. They buff handmaidens which are already extremely strong to begin with.

Probably one of the best empowering effects with the +1 level for heroes since heroes are really strong for VC.

Strigol

They cannot ride dragons but I think the Terrorgheist is an upgrade by having a smaller model and also seem to have better animation. Imo they benefited from the update the most since they can now skip past the levels where they are stuck on foot and crypt ghouls and horror are now very powerful with Hunger AND horrible regeneration. They do a lot of damage, even have access to spirit leech for dueling, and are super tanky. Give them a chance, and they will not disappoint.

Von Carstein

They buff flying units and get flock of doom, but I feel like you will be casting WoD instead. Feels like they are a bit of a jack of all trades. I feel like they are the weakest of the bloodlines since the air force is nothing too spectacular and do not a strong army buff to back it up, though they are the only bloodline lord to have reduced WoD cost - something that a necromancer hero also has.

Necrarch

Lack of spirit leech and WoD can be a bit sad, but I am fine with purple sun: just cast it on the blob surrounding your heroes or summons. They get both life leech and wild heart as passives to help keep reserves up.

10% move range and -33% vigour imo is very strong for any army.

That army of skeletons summoned by The Awakening with 24k hp and 400+ models is no joke and can tank for ages, reduced cooldown for raise dead allow for him to just spam skeletons all over the backline.