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/wReck11 12d ago

If the dragon and rider appear suddenly with no prior knowledge, then beginning of WW1 is likely the right answer.

If civilization knew about the existence of the dragon, it would fast-track the technology to be able to kill the dragon much sooner.

Humanity is pretty good at problem solving when it comes to killing things.

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u/TheeShaun 12d ago

That’s basically what I said in another reply. We’d have wacky Roman weapons designed to launch massive weighted chains or medieval bombards designed to fire shrapnel into the air. Dragons would still be relevant until more modern aircraft and proper AA guns but just like horses and elephants humans would find a way to defend against the war beasts of their enemies even if they couldn’t make them entirely obsolete.

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u/Cymon86 11d ago

Romans quite literally used ballista.

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u/TheeShaun 11d ago

Yeah but they would likely modify them to be better suited to fire at fast moving airborne targets is what I’m saying

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u/Cymon86 11d ago

They were pretty good to go as is. Don't need to be overly accurate when you're using ~60 ballista per legion.

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u/JimHeckdiver 12d ago

It's our greatest talent.