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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NewJeffCTHome" data-source="post: 1998326" data-attributes="member: 25012">From a military perspective - a whole division of flying troops would be a dominant force on the battlefield.  In division, do you mean like 1000 of them?  10,000?  However, after the first few battles, the land based generals will adapt and try to take countermeasures - covered ballistae and archers, somebody mentioned net throwing catapults.  Heck, they'd probably have whole batteries of ballista on each wall and probably pikes stuck into the areas around the ballista batteries and/or archers.  Horsies don't like charging 18 foot long spears.Sure, the pegasi can "bomb" the troops on the ground, but don't expect radar like accuracy if you want to stay out of range of a ballista bolt.In regards to trade, you have a problem with logistics.  Transporting a wagon of foodstuffs is easy when you have wheels and can pull it along the road.  Lifting the whole thing up into the sky is entirely a different story.  Put my mini-van in neutral, and I can push it a bit on a flat surface... no way anybody on earth can lift the whole thing up by hand, though... Sure, you can probably lify the wagon up, it - maybe in teams of 8-10 pegasi - but, then if you have to bring up 1000 wagons of food a day to keep your sky-city fed, and you have 1,000 pegasi, you're using your flying army for hard labor, which limits your army - the pegasi may be tired from the strain of lifting or just not available.  And, then what happens if the pegasi charge Castle Anthrax and 50 of them get zapped by ballista, catapults and archers and another 50 are wounded... then, your already troublesome logistics problem gets very serious.</blockquote>

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