Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4842859-20141004014439/@comment-25178962-20141013155937

Ranged weapons have no disadvantage in the melee except for their reloading time and expense, and players should be motivated to not rely on ranged/melee only. If reloading is a more arduous process, it would encourage the fall of soloist raiders, who could only reload one crossbow at a time. Instead of one person firing three crossbows, three could each maintain their own.

We could also, for example, pair this with a slight inaccuracy to ranged weapons, encouraging simutaneous fire be raiding groups (to maximise chances of hitting target), and further organization on both the part of raiders and defenders.