seeing the many listed weapons in some mods and how they change bows and crossbows while shooting my english longbow regularly makes me cringe:
1. crossbows were only superior by the fact, that shooting a crossbow doesnt require even 1% of the training needed to effectively fire a longbow.
so training a crossbow-soldier takes less time, as even a child can fire it once it's loaded: just point at the enemy and fire, while shooting the bow is much more complicated.
2. even though hunting bows of 30lbs are usually enough to kill a deer, warbows began at 120lbs and archeologists even found warbows of 180lbs strength on sunken british ships.
3. there is no known medieval armor that could withstand such a bow on a direct hit - only on a flat angle, it can ricochet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodkin_pointmost of the tests on armor are done with maximum 30lbs bows and of course against a chainmail either on a wooden wall or hanging free and are not in any way representive as a fleshbody behind that chainmail would definitely result in the arrow going right through.
4. shields dont help either: we shot at a 6cm (2.5'') massive oaken shield with a 60lbs longbow , wooden arrows with 0815 standard sport arrowheads and it went right through.
i hope someone can give these weapons more realism in the game, as i think all of this can be implemented.