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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Skarp Hedin" data-source="post: 1201800" data-attributes="member: 1540">Well, a scorpion bomb is pretty much what you'd expect -- stuff a bunch of scorpions in a sealed pot and chuck it at people you don't like.There's not a whole lot about the ingredients in Greek Fire, since the recipe's lost and there's already endless speculation as to the composition.  The author does talk a bit about the delivery system, which was a fairly complex set-up of tubes and boilers, and of course does mention the fact that it keeps burning underwater.There's also a lot about naphtha, which I'd say is closer to D&D's alchemist's fire.  It burns, but you can put it out with some effort.  There's also a fair bit about poisons, including a description of how to make scythicon, an arrow venom used by the Scythians.One bit that I thought was interesting was a concept of a double-pointed arrow, where the secondary point is only loosely attached to the arrow, so that it'll break off in the wound -- put some poison of some sort on that, and you've a good chance of inflicting an unpleasant, highly infection-prone wound.  Difficult to heal, and the secondary point was hard to get out with an arrow-spoon -- especially for a rushed battlefield doctor.</blockquote>