For those interested, I've updated my mercenary texture pack in the dowloads section to 2.1 status. The several shirtless mercenary units, having finally grown into real men, now have properly barbaric hairy chests.
I tweaked the colors on a couple of other units, but nothing major there. No file names have changed, so if you're already using my 2.0 mercs, simply re-copying the files into your game texture directory should do the job.
--Warspite
(p.s. I see what happened now...posted it in the meta-forum insead of here.)