User blog comment:Leolab/Ancient User Tourney, Round 8: Gaius Leopold (Skully) v Tiberius Proditus (EA)/@comment-5795750-20160707115834/@comment-422690-20160708132239

Since you asked...

Why put long-range? For thrown weapons, like a throwing knife. Or chakram. Or the plumbata. Basically, bows and crossbows are useless in this scenario because you need to string, draw, and fire them in the space of time it takes someone to cross less than 20 m. If any of you besides EA had bothered to read the setup, as I presented it as such in the sign-up blog, you'd've realized this. Really, you have no one to blame but yourself for that. Further, the only match where a bow was a game changer was Bauer v Ganzorig, and that's because the latter started with the weapon.