You can´t say anything yet, But you were low lvl xbowmen in light armour with an heavy xbow.
Once you reach lvl 30 , you can wear medium armour, have an arbalest , an mace or one hander. and you can still have 5 if 5ps .
As a xbower you´re way more multiversitaile ( hope me spelled correct) than an archer , you can engage combat and if you grab some 2h wpp you can even pick up an daish and be just as effective as an lvl 30 2hader with 15/24 ( ofcouse they got some more wpp or some other skill than WM). If a archer runs out of arrows He's pretty mutch worthless in comparison.