Crossbow

The crossbow is one of the most useful weapons in middle earth it has its good points and it's bad points but it can deal an extremly heavy hit.

Characteristics
Crossbows are almost exactly like bows except, they deal more damage and have greater knockback. An unenchanted bow can kill an orc in 3 hits. Uruks will often be seen wielding a crossbow.

Obtaining one
Crossbows can be made through the recipe in photos and they can also be found as a semi-rare drop of uruk-hai crossbow men. The crossbow doesn't use arrows like the bow, it uses bolts (see recipe in photos). The crossbow also is made out of either iron, mithril, or in an uruk crafting table with uruk-steel. All recipes are in photos.