Rocket Cats: take that, flaming pigs.

[Garbarsardar]

Post flaming pigs and pre antitank dogs, the Rocket cats.



"Create a small sack like a fire-arrow. If you would like to get at a town or castle, seek to obtain a cat from that place. And bind the sack to the back of the cat, ignite it, let it glow well and thereafter let the cat go, so it runs to the nearest castle or town, and out of fear it thinks to hide itself where it ends up in barn hay or straw it will be ignited."

An excellent idea, sadly never implemented, but I am somewhat hopeful that it may find a late vindication in M3:TW.

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[Lord Oda Nobunaga]

Something else that was awesome were those kites that were supposed to drop bombs on cities. Not sure what they were called or if they were ever used or by whom.

[Markas]

Harald Hardrada (1015-66) allegedly shortened one siege by tying burning wood chips to the tail of captured little birds, which flew to their nests in the eaves of houses, setting the town alight. Apocryphal? Most likely. ing awesome? Certainly.

[Cyclops]

Something else that was awesome were those kites that were supposed to drop bombs on cities. Not sure what they were called or if they were ever used or by whom.

Kite bombers I suppose, available from a third tier Aviary building (all factions). Flaming Little Birds will be second tier and can be upgraded in the Pet Shoppe building.

[Lord Oda Nobunaga]

I hope that my Mongol Horse Torches can counter that.

I also recall some kind of kite type thing which they would light and set loose so that the kite type object would fly into the buildings and burn them.

[hellheaven1987]

Chinese already used Flaming Oxens anyway.

In 284 BC, Yan forces led by Yue Yi managed to corner Qi within the City of Ju, however Tian Dan was able to launch a successful counterattack and retook the lost territory of Qi.

This counterattack was reliant on an unconventional assult which included inducing panic in a herd of oxen, who were then set upon the Yan army. It is described by the Chinese historian Sima Qian in the Records of the Grand Historian (Taishi gong shu 太史公書, now usually known as the Shiji 史記 – "Historical Records") within his biography of Tian Dan:

"Tian Dan collected more than one thousand oxen from the people in the city. He had them dressed with red silk, and had multicolour lines, like those of dragons, painted on them. Sharp blades were adjusted to their horns, and reeds dipped in grease, so that their tips could be set aflame, were attached to their tails. Several passages were dug in the city walls, and on one night, the oxen were released, followed by five thousand sturdy men. The oxen, their tail on fire, charged the army of Yan, creating panic. The torches attached to the tails illuminated the night, the troops of Yan saw the lines on their bodies, which looked like dragons, and all those who met their horns were either killed or wounded. Then, the five thousand men, their mouths closed with pieces of wood, attacked them. They were followed by the sound of shouts and drums from the city, and all the old people and children struck metal pots. The noise shook heaven and earth. The soldiers of Yan panicked. They were defeated and repealed, and the people of Qi killed his general, Ji Jie. As the army of Yan was falling back, in disorder and confusion, the soldiers of Qi chased it, and destroyed it as they pushed it northwards. All the cities it went through revolted, and rallied Tian Dan, whose troops were larger every day. As he fled from a victory to another, the army of Yan was defeated every day, and finally reached the northern bank of the Yellow River. At this time, more than seventy cities had returned back to Qi."

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