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<blockquote data-quote="Ixal" data-source="post: 8436308" data-attributes="member: 7030132"><p>Now your are clear into strawmen territory and also fail to realize the consequences of what you are proposing.</p><p></p><p>Short version:</p><p>1. Dragons, at least the usual D&D and many other dragon rider story portrayals, are intelligent, so they too can invent stuff like new tactics and methods of attack.</p><p>2. A longbow can't be shot from a horse period. You probably mean a composite bow. And even then it loses penetration power very fast and would hardly hit, let alone hurt a dragon flying at 300 ft.</p><p>3. Creating clear glass is hard, so crop yield would be reduced a lot. It would also be a massive undertaking because of the area required to feed a city. And even if you manage that, you would still need to protect it because if not a dragon can smash it easily by for example dropping a tree on it.</p><p>4. It all depends on crop. Most fantasy uses Europe as template, hence wheat farms. Rice or Potatoes have an advantage for being harder to set on fire and requiring less space. But for a large population you still need quite a lot of land and in the case of many forms or rice a vulnerable irrigation system.</p><p>5. Heated rocks were even used in the Age of Sail to set enemy ships of fire. Nothing silly about that. But I have give you that there are more efficient methods. A tree or some logs the dragon grabs, sets on fire and drops on the field for example. The fire breathing dragon doesn't need to be immune to fire in this case.</p><p>6. Why would the dragon need to fly for days? It is much faster and more mobile than everything humans have. It just needs to rest/sleep in a place just barely out of reach for the humans to reach within 10 hours or so. Then it can stay on the wing, hunt, etc. and two or three days later attack the next village, etc.</p><p></p><p>Why dragons would do that? Why do humans attack dragons?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ixal, post: 8436308, member: 7030132"] Now your are clear into strawmen territory and also fail to realize the consequences of what you are proposing. Short version: 1. Dragons, at least the usual D&D and many other dragon rider story portrayals, are intelligent, so they too can invent stuff like new tactics and methods of attack. 2. A longbow can't be shot from a horse period. You probably mean a composite bow. And even then it loses penetration power very fast and would hardly hit, let alone hurt a dragon flying at 300 ft. 3. Creating clear glass is hard, so crop yield would be reduced a lot. It would also be a massive undertaking because of the area required to feed a city. And even if you manage that, you would still need to protect it because if not a dragon can smash it easily by for example dropping a tree on it. 4. It all depends on crop. Most fantasy uses Europe as template, hence wheat farms. Rice or Potatoes have an advantage for being harder to set on fire and requiring less space. But for a large population you still need quite a lot of land and in the case of many forms or rice a vulnerable irrigation system. 5. Heated rocks were even used in the Age of Sail to set enemy ships of fire. Nothing silly about that. But I have give you that there are more efficient methods. A tree or some logs the dragon grabs, sets on fire and drops on the field for example. The fire breathing dragon doesn't need to be immune to fire in this case. 6. Why would the dragon need to fly for days? It is much faster and more mobile than everything humans have. It just needs to rest/sleep in a place just barely out of reach for the humans to reach within 10 hours or so. Then it can stay on the wing, hunt, etc. and two or three days later attack the next village, etc. Why dragons would do that? Why do humans attack dragons? [/QUOTE]
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