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Ah, but what if you are using the good old FBTN banding chain that starts with a few banders to get the numbers up, then goes to Ishmaiah the Gibeonite to Asahel to Israelite Archer to Captain?  Well, if you did that, using the Kings version would mean that all the abilities on those guys still worked (including the D3 off of Ishmaiah).  So that's a good reason.  Also if you are silly and using silver weapons it is better to have the Warriors one, though that reason is a bit weaker.

Otherwise, yes, the Warriors version is superior.

Ah, but what if you are using the good old FBTN banding chain that starts with a few banders to get the numbers up, then goes to Ishmaiah the Gibeonite to Asahel to Israelite Archer to Captain?  Well, if you did that, using the Kings version would mean that all the abilities on those guys still worked (including the D3 off of Ishmaiah).

Actually Captain does negate Warrior Class Heroes (except banding) as he says all except Weapons and Warriors are most definitely not weapons.

In my pure Silver T2 deck I use the Kings version because of Army of the Lord, for the occasions where I either want to band him into battle (say I attacked with Micheal with Angel's Sword) or I have a spare Angel's Sword to put on Captain of the Host so I can play Army of the Lord CBN regardless of initiative. But I also have 2 Warriors Strong Angels to cover when I do need to negate weapons.

Just posting to say that CS is correct, I forgot the exact wording for a moment.  So yes, the only reason is if you want to use weapons (like Foreign Sword, which is very important sometimes).