"These axe units have a melee attack reduction of 2, but are now armour piercing:
Frank Axe Heerbann
Francisca Heerbann
Night raiders
Berber axemen"

WOW berbers axeman and night raiders have armour piercing!!! I am going to do more test on them!!! Francisca I am not so sure I am going to have a look.

Did a couple of games with the franks with 1.6 super smooth mode!!! They are so roman now!!! I also notice that the Francisca have a longer missile range, need someone else to confirm this. The axe heerbann are reliable but they seems to have a problem against warcry inf and romans inf. Need more games to test them out, but if francisca have armour piercing that will truely rock my world mwahahahahahaa!!!!

I had a couple of games with the golden band and I notice that they are very good and reliable in melee now even without the zerkers around, they are pretty good against roman too though I think the axeman would still be a much prefered choice. Golden band have 6 for amour while axeman have 7 for amour, wonder how that would affect them in terms of surviving against arrows or in melee.