[Shovah32]

Their military can be beat by the majority of EA nations even without blessed. Bless nations run through them easily, their mages are extremely hard to mass, most of their troops are very gold intensive and so its often them or the mages early on and they generally have an extremely weak early game.

I personally love marverni in single player and play them often in single player but they just arent competitive in multiplayer imo without great diplomacy and very heavy scouting. The 10% pick does work as ive gotten it before - its all chance.