Lo-Fi Games

Seeing as the world has booze, fuel, and fabric, maybe some form of Molotov Cocktail can be devised and used?

I don't recall if there are glass bottles in kenshi, but I suppose a stone/clay jug might work just as well.

I'd like it if this was some kind of special use weapon. Your squad would carry a limited number with them in their inventory, you would have to order their use and target which area or foe to use it on yourself which your selected character would attempt to accomplish. This would be a very nice improvement to the current combat situation where there is very little we can do.

Would some kind of acid "grenade" be out of the question? (just a bottle of acid really)

I don't know what the people of this world use in the creation of those big ass battery stacks but maybe it can be weaponized. Maybe its not potent enough to do serious damage but it might be used as a distraction/stunning weapon that prevents character from fighting for a bit because their skin is sort of melting off. Would also be interesting for certain armor users as most heavy armors would not protect against this kind of attack but weaker armors that offer acid resistance (from those environmental conditions) could offer protection.

Im guessing explosives are out of the question, otherwise you could devise some kind of primitive grenades or exploding throwing spears.

We could still have normal throwing spears or javelins.

We could also have nets as another special attack to temporarily incapacitate a character.

EDIT:

Maybe throwing stars or blowdarts with poison?