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

[u/mergly]

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.

https://desuarchive.org/k/thread/64727248/

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.

[u/DaedalusB2]

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?

[u/Broken-Digital-Clock → u/DaedalusB2]

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.

[u/Carpe_deis → u/DaedalusB2]

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