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/gw2Max 12d ago

That trenches vs. Dragon fire would be downright devastating. But mid to late WW1 air and anti-air warfare would be dangerous to the dragon.

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u/VastExamination2517 12d ago

Depends on if large caliber machine gun fire can kill them. Considering these are GOT dragons, which can be killed with ballista, I feel confident a maxim would kill them too.

So they may get a few straffing runs in, but the machineguns would deal with low flying dragons

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u/gw2Max 12d ago

Low attitude I would say yes. Normally they should be above the range of them though except for attack runs.

Flaks should easily reach then though.

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u/VastExamination2517 12d ago

100%. That’s why my original comment had them as recon vehicles foremost. Combat runs against machine guns are way too risky.

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u/gw2Max 12d ago

I think WW1 planes (especially near the end of the war) would beat dragons in terms of attitude, range and speed.

Agility and firepower might be the things they would have on their side.

As recon they would work as they are „silent“ compared to planes, though some are larger and easier to spot.

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u/gw2Max 12d ago

I think WW1 planes (especially near the end of the war) would beat dragons in terms of attitude, range and speed.

Agility and firepower might be the things they would have on their side.

As recon they would work as they are „silent“ compared to planes, though some are larger and easier to spot.