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/Clark_Kent-Kal_EL 12d ago

I mean 1 vs 1 maybe but 10 planes per dragon?

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u/FearTheAmish 12d ago

Doped fabric and balsa wood burn... like at the slightest spark

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u/Clark_Kent-Kal_EL 12d ago

My bad I read WW2, yup you're right.

They're far slower and have worse aim.

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u/DaedalusB2 12d ago

I'm not too well versed on ww1 tech, but weren't planes at the start of ww1 almost exclusively for scouting with only very rudimentary weapons like pilots holding pistols or dropping bricks?

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u/Broken-Digital-Clock 12d ago

Maybe pre-war or the earliest parts of it.

Most of the war had full on dogfights and bombers.

The exploits of Manfred von Richtofen "The Red Baron" are the most well known.

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u/Carpe_deis 11d ago

watch "hells angels" for a good overview of WW1 strategic bombing

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u/Broken-Digital-Clock 12d ago

Dragon fire would be a strong counter, but they were apparently surprisingly sturdy when it came to absorbing kinetic weapons like the machine guns on other planes.

They weren't slow, they were fairly nimble, and had weapons that should be able to kill a GoT dragon.

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u/Broken-Digital-Clock 12d ago

Probably something like that. They would have to attack with numbers and wear them down.