Wait...how did this strange armour thing become a discussion about archers?
Any archer that wears strange armour can be out shot by a light, pure build archer easily.
That said, I occasionally ride around in Lamellar with a Kerghit War Helm, but the wpf difference is enough that I only crack that out when ranged is 1 shotting me off my horse in big servers. Otherwise it's back to steppe, or kazakh armour for me.
Horse archers that wear strange armour are piss easy to beat when I'm in my normal armour, as are foot archers. So even if you got a hefty bonus from looming the damn thing, you're still gonna pretty much suck at ranged in comparison to a normal archer.
Anyway, I cba to read the whole thread to deduce the full discussion. But that's what I gathered it was related to.
Actually, archers would use a lordly light strange armor specifically to NOT get any penalty in archery.
Lordly light strange + lordly mail gauntlets or something will easily give you 50+ body armor while keeping you under the weight limit that starts affecting the wpf.
So a naked archer or an archer with 50+ body armor, given the same bow and wpf will have the exact same damage and shoot speed.
Unless it's different from Melee, in which case the penalty to get 50+ body armor is still barely noticeable if at all.