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I thought of a rule that would perhaps make WHFB a bit more realistic.
I find it annoying that missile troops are just as good in CC than their comrades who have been tooled up to fight in CC. Therfore i thought that any unit that is not defined as having a 'hand weapon' or other CC weapon should require a 6+ to wound in close combat, its very hard to kill something with a shortbow by hitting it. And should also be hit on a 3+. Exeptions could be made for things like handguns, since theyre almost like a club, so they wound on a 5+ and are hit on a 4+ (unless they would normally wound on 6+ for a high T model or be hit on 3+ with a high WS model).
This would then make it an option to give your Goblin Archers hand weapons for +1 pt per model, to avoid being mashed in combat.
I think this rule is quite good what do yuo think??

All units are assumed to have a single hand weapon.

I don't see why...

I would assume that the missile troops have some kind of short sword or knife to defend themselves.

See, most missile units already get owned in combat because they don't have combat options, like armor.