Downgrade Bitcoin Core to 0.13.2. The issue has been fixed in 0.96 which will be released soon. Meanwhile, if you use 0.13.2 Armory will work fine.
yep worked. thanks for your insight. very much appreciate it.
+1. I had similarly reported issues with Armory not seeing newly broadcast transactions, not broadcasting and not staying up to date with blocks seen in core 14.0. A downgrade to 13.2 solved the issues - waiting until Armory 0.96 now.