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Maverni has great mages, but the only worthwhile troops are Eponi Knights and Carnute Nobles (the ones that get berserk).
The sacred warriors aren't worth a bless strategy and are awfully expensve (35 gp!!) for their stats.
At start you can't expand without significant losses before you can use Protection and BE. Then problem is that before you reach magic level 4 in several path you are clearly outclassed by nearly any other EA nations, particularly the non-human ones with big nasty troops such as Yomi, Agartha, Abysia or Niefelheim.
Compare costs and stats of a Boar Warrior vs a Agarthan Seal Guard : a SG costs roughly 2 BW (gold and res), it's laughable.
And you don't even get cool national summons ! 
Edit : and no sneaky troops neither ! 
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Why are you even trying a bless strategy othern than E4 with Marverni? Not all nations can do well for it, and other nations have better choices for it.
The Carnute Nobles have far suckier stats than their Ambitate colleagues and their only saving grace is the Berzerk that fires only every now and then.
Perhaps your problems with significant losses have come from using inferior units (Carnutes) while far better choices are around (Ambitates)?
Yomi and Agartha are vulnerable to missiles (You get javelins, which are good, especially against Agartha), Agartha and Niefelheim are vulnerable to being ganged on. Admitedly Yomi can bring archers and some of the Niefels get the frost aura but there are no foolproof plans.
Another noteworthy thing is that Yomi and especially Niefelheim and Agartha have worse research capability than Marverni. This can be further boosted by taking Magic scale, and since you can't pull a good bless strat with Marverni, why bother putting too much magic for your pretender?