Running into a bug where archers are charging into combat while having arrows and a bow/crossbow in their inventory
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I’ve noticed this too. During a raid, I’ll pull my guards from distant towers to support and they might fire an arrow or two before charging and dedicated archer units in armies charging with the infantry. I would like to see a mechanic introduced that keeps archers at range and gives them a skirmisher fighting style. Fire and maneuver.
Yep, get this a lot unfortunately - archers just running into melee when they have plenty of arrows 
I’ve seen my archers exit their safe forts and end up meleeing while having arrows and crossbows. I thought it may have been that they got hungry and went for a snack, I planned to keep an eye on that in future games, and also to see if the ‘stand ground’ setting would fix it.
This may be an obvious question, but is the company with the archers set to defend or attack?
When one of my companies that contains both archers and melee soldiers is set to defend, the only ones that charge forward are my melee soldiers. The archers stand back and used ranged attack. When the same company is set to attack, then my archers will sometimes/often charge forward also.
The exception is if the archers are attacked themselves. Then they sometimes charge forward regardless of the setting.
Archers will reposition if they do not have line of sight on the acquired target. They otherwise do not have a melee attack to charge in with.