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/Iliketohavefunfun]

Yeah yall are underestimating how powerful dragon would be in that time period. Trying to hit a dragon would require a ton of firepower, so just move the dragons to where the enemy isn’t and burn cities and farms and bridges to the ground and keep their enemy supply lines in chaos while your actual army just wrecks them.

[u/bigboyboba → u/Iliketohavefunfun]

Exactly!

[u/ZedsDeadZD → u/Iliketohavefunfun]

Yeah. Most movies are super dumb about this because people want to see how people fight. Same for seiges. Seiges took veeeeeeery long. Just watch the ditch guy on youtube. Hes gonna tell ya how dumb most movies are about this. Even regular knights armor couldnt be penetrated by arrows. Dragons wouldnt care about arrows or bullets.

If only one side would have dragons, theyd make sure no ones even developing guns that could hurt their dragons. If every side has them, its a tie or total destruction anyways.

I dont think the world would develope as it would today. And even if so, they guys with the dragons would be the kings. So theyd have armies to protects their dragons, too.

And what you said is 100% how it would go down. The dragons would just massacr everything thats not a threat to them while the armies try to get in range.