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...

[–] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I automatically hate posts with the stupid 'no one' format, and the extra 'literally no one' is even worse.

[–] Klear@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

POV: You post a meme with "no one":

[–] Ideonek@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So... did it work?

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm guessing it would be difficult to chuck it far enough to get the shooter out of the blast radius

[–] Saleh@feddit.org 26 points 1 year ago

It was lighter and more portable than the Leach Trench Catapult, but less powerful. It weighed 24 kg (53 lb) and could throw an F1 grenade or Mills bomb 110–140 m (120–150 yd).

Sounds like a perfectly viable choice in trench warfare.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Just throw the crossbow

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No one nothing?

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Literally no one nothing.

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I mean reading that link the British and Germans had similar ideas…

[–] then_three_more@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I should have realised Fiddler's crossbow in Malazan was inspired by something real.