Though, when Ilona spoke of long ranged attacks, she clearly was not speaking of projectiles like bolts and arrows, because all knights of Loimos were equipped with a longbow on top of their weapon of choice, and although they had not seen any actually fire an arrow so far, no one doubted that it would pack quite the punch.
There also the soldiers with crossbows to worry about, they definitely wouldn't be using regular crossbows and bolts, undeads, even of the lowest rank, were equipped with state of the art weaponry and armour.