It was an ingenious heavy artillery weapon from a time before gun powder. They'd often tightly bundle up balls of dry brush, light it, launch it from those things, and it'd make a pretty effective firebomb.
They would also hurl dead and decomposing bodies, often infected with the plague, into the fortifications of besieged fortresses. The first bio-warfare.
It was an ingenious heavy artillery weapon from a time before gun powder. They'd often tightly bundle up balls of dry brush, light it, launch it from those things, and it'd make a pretty effective firebomb.
They would also hurl dead and decomposing bodies, often infected with the plague, into the fortifications of besieged fortresses. The first bio-warfare.
They were smart lil' buggers when it came to warfare before all the tech. They knew how to make stuff happen.
We should probably learn how to make those....