And raised skeleton archers do crappy melee damage.

I had fun with it in my first run and decided to go summon-heavy with a spore druids in the tactician run I started this weekend. I assumed it was either a tactician difficulty change or because I was casting it as level 3...but then I unlocked level 4 and it's the same situation but with more skeles.

While looking for a list of differences in Tactician, I found a reddit thread (sorry) with people claiming it's a bug. I loaded my last game and yep, no bows! I didn't verify but people are saying the skeletons' bows get put in YOUR inventory.

They're pretty much useless without bows..except to soak hits. Hopefully this gets fixed soon.