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I received a few questions about the unit Dagger-axe soldiers. I'll give a quick answer both here and in the comments section.
The unit was not removed. It was simply renamed to Militia and had its visuals changed to reflect its status in the troop tree.
The design philosophy behind the changes was that the player should be able to visually look at the unit and have some general sense of how strong the unit is. In other words, if the unit is wearing purple or wearing iron armor, the unit is probably a late-game strong unit, whereas if the unit is wearing a simple top knot with cloth armor, it is probably an early game weak unit.
Dagger-axe soldiers had always been a weak unit stat-wise. But their original design had them wearing metallic vests and semi-sophisticated hairstyles. It poses two problems: First, the metallic vest seems to suggest that the unit can stand its own against mid-game units when stat-wise it is wearing cloth armor with very weak offensive and defensive stats. Second, the lack of visual consistency across faction units poses additional questions, e.g. how do the shiny metallic armor compare to the black iron plates found on more professional troops? The visuals seem to suggest similarity when they couldn't be further apart.
That's essentially the reason several of the units' appearances have diverged from the screenshots. I will update the screenshots with the next patch.
The same thing applies to crossbowmen, they are still in game but just look a bit differently. You have to build the archery line of buildings up to the third tier.