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...
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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
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.
Just throw the crossbow
No one nothing?
Literally no one nothing.
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.
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.