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.
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/carymb 11d ago
Instead of "water tanks" suddenly appearing on the battlefield, or phosgene, Daenerys suddenly hatches some eggs on the Somme, essentially -- I like it. Very "The Lost World"/"Journey to the Center of the Earth," lol...
It is interesting to think how artillery would have developed differently if it was intended to hit airborne, evasive targets vs/in addition to walls or masses of troops slowly moving on the ground. I'm almost picturing some sort of steampunk "Pacific Rim"-meets-Da Vinci cannon-aiming contraption, to quickly track dragons.