New 3d unit: Naffatun

[Ringeck]

Different incendiary weapons were common all thorough medieval history all over europe - oil, fire and burning pitch are frequently mentioned in medieval norse sagas, and the "Kings's Mirror" of 1250, after listing a long line of fanciful weapons to use for ship-to-ship combat (including several varieties of burning oil and pitch), adds that "the best of all these is still Coal and Sulphur" (which is the same wording the norse sources often use for gunpowder - this would be very early for gunpowder weapons, but between 1294 and 1296 the following events transpired at the king's hall in Bergen: "During christmas Trond Fisiler amused himself by making Hærbrest (lit. "army-boom"/"war-boom"). This makes such a loud boom (brestr) that few can bear to hear it. Pregnant women can lose their foetus when they hear the boom, and men fall of their chairs and onto the floor and twitch in different ways. Trond told Laurentius (the bishop, and the "main character" in the saga) that he should stick his fingers in his ears when the boom came. Many in the king's hall couldn't stay on their feet when the boom came. Trond showed Laurentius what was needed to make such a boom: Fire, sulphur, parchment and stry " (which means something that burns but cannot be extinguished easily) "One often uses such army-booms in war so that those unfamiliar with it, shall flee in all directions" - I just love those sources - they illustrate that gunpowder in different forms had come into common use considerably earlier that most scholars accept)

Whether they were frequently grouped into units that flung what looks like dynamite sticks at each other on the field is of course another matter (re. the Arcani and War Dogs and medieval Katyusha rocket artillery we see in the M2TW demos) - If one stretches the bar long enough, one can argue for naked noblewomen riding horses backwards organized into 50-woman units, causing confusion among the troops

I would be more worried about the screenshots that show mongol infantry tending to Mons Meg - Style bombards, or the Katyusha-style rocket artillery in one demo. Those are based on really flimsy evidence, or lack of it - we hardly know anything about the gunpowder weapons used by the mongols, except a few snippets here and there that mention them and the japanese marine finds of canister for similar psychological effect-weapons as those described above.