Fire Lance

The Fire Lance is a Siege Weapon (or "Siege Infantry") used by the Chinese in Age of Mythology: Tale of the Dragon. The Fire Lance can be seen in the He Bo teaser behind some Chu Ko Nu and Halberdiers.

Mythology
''The fire lance was perhaps the first employment of naphtha among singular infantrymen on a large scale. Prior to this naphtha was an agent used primarily for incendiary bombs and siege warfare.''

''The fire lance is essentially a primitive hand-cannon attached to a long spear which ejected a projectile and a jet of fire for several feet. Originally designed to shoot small poisoned darts or other projectile points from a bamboo tube, they were one-shot weapons issued to give spearmen an edge in hand-to-hand combat against other spearmen. However, as technology improved the cannon became its own effective weapon, and the lance disappeared: the gun was born.''