Except that they do retain their bows, you can still use them for shooting afterwards (assuming any survive - archers aren't particularly good melee units).
Once again: if you don't have it already, download the European manual at the Community Site. It's much, much better.
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"When you leave your gate act as though an enemy was in sight."
- Japanese proverb
"It is a good viewpoint to see the world as a dream. When you have something like a nightmare, you will wake up and tell yourself that it was only a dream. It is said that the world we live in is not a bit different from this".
- Yamamoto Tsunetomo: Hagakure