User blog comment:Suriken88/Rumour: Assassin's Creed 3 Setting Revealed/@comment-66.50.149.9-20120131212030/@comment-1153722-20120205094436

I don't know whoever said they were "removed due to historical inaccuracies", but that person is an idiot, no matter if it was an official Ubisoft employee or a fan. Besides, the crossbow is even used during the first Altaïr memory in Revelations.