Apparently on the slippery slope of forum-based logic, giving archers a knife means nerfing gladiator but stabbing an armored foe with a piece of wood is totally awesome.

Let's just give archers a kukri. It's not a dagger.

Or maybe archers will use karate? Or perhaps jarate, the jar-based karate*?

* Jarate is neither affiliated with, nor a substitute for, Karate.