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Hand Grenade
The standard hand grenade is probably the most useful of the explosives you carry. You can hold up to 10 of them at any given time. Each grenade has a 5-second delay.
Grenades are great for one thing: tossing into areas that you cannot see into and therefore can't fire bullets, shells, etc. into. Grenades work great for clearing out areas around corners and for flushing soldiers out of hiding. (Soldiers will run when they hear the grenade touch down next to them.) Remember that grenades bounce off of walls and whatever else you throw them at.
Note that they're not like the grenades in some other games that always instantly explode when they hit an enemy or breakable item; Mp5 grenades serve that purpose in Half-Life. Therefore, if you cannot reach an area from your current position, think about bouncing a grenade off of something (or even someone) to get it to where you want it to go.
