Quote Originally Posted by Zenith Darksea View Post
The use of Greek fire is well enough attested for us to be sure that it was real and was used (and not just by the Byzantines - the Arabs and Turks developed a version of it too). It is recorded in more than one battle and there are even diagrams of it being fired from a ship-mounted tube in manuscripts. However, we don't know its exact composition. It probably had something to do with naphtha, though.
Not to mention some depictions of handheld versions of the apparatus DO exist in the Madrid Skylitzes manuscript. No, seriously. Which means the people who made Kingdoms weren't ENITRELY off their rocker.... IIRC, Theophanes the Confessor also mentions it being used in one of Justinian II's campaigns against the slavs near Thessalonika.

Though I'd have to dig up my copy of Theophanes to be sure.

Oh: The image from the chronicle: