Another problem is that they greatly reduced throwing's damage. Most of javelin perks are now light javelins, which deal less damage. Franceskas and throwing axes nerf gives me a smile, they are now like that:
Vlandian Throwing Axe: Damage is decreased from 113 to 34
Sturgia Throwing Axe: Damage is decreased from 90 to 34
Jav's damage got nerfed too, empire will only have 1 or 2 pilas on start cause noone will spam menavs or their peasants just to get these pilas.
Archers will now just ignore throwings, if an axe flies at you, you just don't give a **** cause it will deal only like 25dmg.
In fight you can only throw something on horse 1 time usually, cause the horse player will quickly ride away or the enemy inf will force you to switch to melee, so the stack count buff won't really help against cav I think, same works with archers, if you see an enemy cav coming around the corner you usually have only 1 shot until you have to switch to your sword, so the shooting speed buff doesn't do much.
I really see no reliable damage sources to the horses next patch.