Hum… You take a lot out when you omit the reason most generals didn’t like it was because they were already using catapults to throw the grenades…
I automatically hate posts with the stupid ‘no one’ format, and the extra ‘literally no one’ is even worse.
POV: You post a meme with “no one”:
So… did it work?
I’m guessing it would be difficult to chuck it far enough to get the shooter out of the blast radius
Just throw the crossbow
Was there a war where soldiers were adequately supplied with arms? I mean real war, not some over-modern army chasing pickup savages in the desert. I think not. Soldiers in all times and wars were in need to improvise.
No one nothing?
Literally no one nothing.
I mean reading that link the British and Germans had similar ideas…
I should have realised Fiddler’s crossbow in Malazan was inspired by something real.