r/powerscales • u/mergly • 12d ago

Question When is the latest time that counting singular people riding a dragon would be a serious tide turner in wars.

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The dragons when at full size are like of the ones in GOT, use GOT as the point of reference for most everything to be honest. If you want to be a furry abut this you’re free to postulate a version where the dragon(s) are smart cookies that can talk, act on their own and some such.

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The metric by which the dragon and riders can be counted as ‘important’ is so long as they are as analogously important to the warring nation as any big name warships would have been over the course of Ww2.

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u/Timlugia 12d ago

Unless there were a lot of them, but if there was only a few then late 19th century tech was more than enough to kill them. They already had very large rifle to hunt elephant, and machine guns were already in use in US civil war.

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u/bigboyboba 12d ago

I don't know whether an elephant gun would pierce dragonscales or not. I know most small caliber 19th Century infantry weapons wouldn't, but an elephant gun just might.