how does modern warfare look with flintstone level technology?

[Shades of Eternity]

yet another brainstorming thread for my gneiss city world

I started watching the flintstones and well ...

how would modern warfare look like in such a world?

Infantry?
Cavalry?
Artillery?
Air Force?

and anything else you can think of.

 

[ichabod]

Infantry?

A bunch of guys with stone axes.

Cavalry?

Guys on raptors. Even though I don't think they had raptors on the Flintstones, I can see a cartoon raptor in my head right now.

Artillery?

Wind up a dinosaur to throw a rock.

Air Force?

Pterodactyls, obviously.

 

[Shades of Eternity]

Ha

I could also see a tank being essentially plates on a triceratops and with a catapult.

 

[bloodtide]

Something like the Dino Rider Toys.....

 

[Tonguez]

1. Warriors riding on the backs of Triceratops with ballistas and or T-Rexes.
2. Pterodactyl carrying rocks as bombs
3. Woolly Mammoths fitted with sturdy wooden platforms.
4. Smoke signal and drum comms
5. Brontosaurus carrying stone-throwing catapults.
6. Velociraptor skirmishers
7. Stealth units riding on Saber-toothed cats
8. Arthropleura nightmare fuel

 

[MGibster]

You could do rifles like some sort of rubber band gun that fires rocks.

 

[W'rkncacnter]

You could do rifles like some sort of rubber band gun that fires rocks.

2 by 4 technology!

 

[beta-ray]

It's more World War I, but they sort of talked about war in "The Story of Rocky's Raiders" Flintstones season 6.

The Story of Rocky's Raiders

"The Story of Rocky's Raiders" is the twenty-sixth and last episode of the sixth season and the one hundred and sixty-sixth and last overall episode of the original series, The Flintstones. It finally aired on April 1, 1966. Fred's grandfather comes for a visit. While awaiting his arrival, Fred...

flintstones.fandom.com

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

The Flintstones intro showed them using giant quadruped herbivores for earthmoving. Not a stretch to suggest they could use them as stone-throwing war machines.

In a much earlier thread, I recommended using moas and/or large velociraptors for cavalry or dragoon units. Smaller velociraptors could be used like war-dogs.

Airborn critters would be used as messengers, tactical “divecrappers”, or even droppers of stone/fire/alchemical payloads.

 

[aco175]

I was first thinking of adding the Flintstones car to a dinosaur and have the dino petal them around like Fred. Then I jumped to this thing from 1e/2e.