About Crossbows, and why no Archer should use them.

[Arafails]

Reload time. Oh my. Regnum doesn't have a "super ultra amazingly slow" weapon speed, but they'd need one for cross bows.

Accuracy. Think of long bows as full length rifles and short bows as carbines. A Crossbow is a sawn-off shotgun. It probably won't hit its target, and it could hit anything. Even standing directly behind it could get you killed.

It's just not a weapon for professionals. See above, but more accurately, it served the same purpose in war as a side firearm does today. A first resort weapon for when you really don't want an actual fight.

All that said, crossbows would be applicable, but to the warrior class. I think this would be a fair trade: Give archers daggers for close-quarter combat, and warriors crossbows to even the odds 1v1 with an archer.

Cheers.