Do you have a castle that you need to storm, or a siege you need to lay upon your enemies? Are you sadly bereft of the medieval weaponry it would take to accomplish those tasks?
Well don’t despair: luckily, you live in the age of the Internet, which means somebody knows how to make things like self-igniting flaming arrows for all your siege needs, and that somebody is completely willing to share that information with the world:
First things first: materials. As a denizen of the modern age, you only need four things to create self-igniting fire arrows—a ball of steel wool, an ordinary nine-volt battery, a slingshot and, well, arrows. Attach the steel wool to the arrow, stick the battery on the base of your slingshot, and start shooting: when you draw back the slingshot’s elastic, the battery and steel wool meet, igniting the wool and subsequently the arrow.
While the guy in the video is using a slingshot, this technique should work just as well with a regular bow or crossbow, although you’d probably have to modify it a bit.
I’m going to leave you with a small disclaimer: since you probably don’t have the mad archery skills of your medieval ancestors, and you’ll be shooting flaming projectiles , please experiment with this in a very large, completely empty area where you can’t set anything important on fire, like the land or houses or yourself.
But while you’re in that large, empty area, by all means see if you can look this badass:
Source Gizmodo
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