Try asking again with perhaps slightly different wording in a week or two. This sub has some good comments sometimes but often (especially with very complex subjects that are "popular") people here know just enough to misconstrue the facts.

Thanks for reminding me that we're not in ask historians, and thus have a bit more leeway in our cites:

>Sieges against Antioch had a history of costly failure. It was well known that the complicated instructions and long deployment time of their weaponry made Antioch's military an ineffective field force. At home, however, these disadvantages were irrelevant; with time for a careful, deliberate deployment, their "holy" hand grenades proved decisive against invaders, human and animal alike.

MPATHG (Cleese et al, 23.19)

>but didn't get an answer there

Try /r/AskHistorians again, and read their wiki on how to formulate a question. This sub will give you answers, but half of them will be based on racial stereotypes, and the main sources will be movies or 'I read somewhere.'