User blog comment:Jimeee/Skryim DLC Details Leaked in 1.5.26 Update Files - The Snow Prince!?/@comment-69.19.14.26-20120428182340

Crossbows! There could definitely be an awesome use for those. Since crossbows are more powerful, it would be easier to take out more heavily armored people. I know from Stronghold that crossbowmen are much better for shorter distances since a few of them are more likely to take out armored units. Maybe it'll be a way to get stronger guys killed better from a distance. Also, crossbows do not use arrows, they use bolts, so one way of making it more difficult to constantly one-shot bandits would be t make crossbow bolts a lot rarer than arrows. (ebony and daedric bolts would be next to impossible to find.)