How the FUCK do you hit a dragon from hundreds of miles away from behind an island ON YOUR FIRST ATTEMPT and then...

Plot armor.
The answer is always plot armor.

Why didn't Dany just fly behind the ships and roast them? Ships can't turn on a dime.

This. And even if the ballista could swivel, it would be blocked by the boats sail as she came in from behind.

I like how people think Drogon has a cockpit and a steering wheel. In the last episode it never really seems like Danaerys wants to go attack the ships head on and all her cringey poop faces are her trying to steer Drogon away.

Or Arya being the anime assassin.

This But i agree a
>Suddenly Hurons fleet appears. Dany was surprised they hid behind the small island. Immediatly she steered her dragons towards, to burn the ships.
>Suddenly an arrow hit Rheagal. Another one! Dany realized that the ships had mounted scorpions. She started to turn when another wave of arrows launched, killing killed Rheagal and hurt her dragons wings.

fly high, get over them and attack from above. even when they can turn around, they can't shoot 90degrees up in the air.

Why fly a dragon in the first place? Why make it so vulnerable?

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Good point, multiple options. Yet the writers force tension because they don't know how to do their job properly.

have sex it's a tv show

you are delusional, report to the infirmary

So you want to build a tank to carry the dragon? Aren't dragons supposed to have thick scales that act as armor? How the fuck did an arrow penetrate that?

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Guess too much ressources? A dragon Armor would be better?

bows?
you retarded nigger

More importantly isn't that HER island? Aren't there supposed to be spies, watchtowers, scouts etc etc?

Also how the fuck can scorpions pierce ships? This is simply retarded, there's a reason ancient ships used cannons and not fucking balistas, at best the balista giant arrow could get stuck in the hull.

That one is easy to answer. She is not and has never been a competent tactician. Her greatest character flaw is her sense of entitlement, and she is utterly dependent on others to carry her.

then fly underwater and attack from underneath the boats

They did. Canons are just more powerfull,
But they are your lowtech canons.
They even used them before canons, even if its mostly against men or against sails.
And Westeros didnt discovered gunpowder or thought of using all the alchemistic stuff they have to propell ammo.

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One wonders how you became so autistic.

Consider this: You are flying in the air on your dragons. Since you aren't blind, you see for miles.
Suddendly, while high in the air 3 bolts strike the dragon next to you with almost pinpoint accuracy. The dragon was also a moving target and there's no way you could be this accurate with a ballista.
To make matters worse, suddendly a huge fleet appears out of nowhere.
Now I am no master tactician but if I were confronted with dragon-seeking bolts and fleets that appear out of nowhere I'd get the fuck away too.

Speculation: Euron deliberately missed when aiming at Drogon and Dany because the aim was NOT to kill her or Drogon, but to make her look like a cowardly cunt who leaves her fleet to be preyed upon. The target was NOT Dany herself, but IRL Danyfag pride.

It is fitting because Dany will later go on to become Le Mad Queen because of what Euron did, which will arguably cause more butthurt than it would if Euron finished her off then and there

In the same way that some of us would rather have had Ramsay's 20 Good Men somehow assassinate Stannis than have D&D character assassinate him, Euron's function as a plot device to have Dany go Mad Queen is preferable to having him simply finish Dany and Drogon off with his prodigious aim.

Thats really the annoying part. They have all the authority they need to write any manner of believable events that would end up with 1 Dragon dying in that episode.

Like gee idk, a pile of dead carcasses being planted on a rock face with a ballista battery set up inside a nearby cave entrance.
Hungry battle tired dragon lands on rock clearing to feed, gets shot point blank by 3 ballistas. Cut shot to Euron observing from a far laughing his balls off.
Still dumb but better than randomly getting picked off a mile away in open air.

My theory right now is than Bran guided the missile

To be fair didn't they fire like a 100 shots at once? Can't explain the second part though.

Yes. Humans aren't shown to have any superpower. The only reason people allow NK killing a dragon was because he was supposed to be the be all end all villain (powered by magic) until Arya became a Mary Sue and one shotted him.

what prestige level is this?

i don't normally call people reddit but this post is the most quintessential reddit post i've seen in fucking months, take a walk into traffic

it was an inside job.

See jfk and lee harvey oswald.

Have sex, incel

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Shit writing.

I like the autism of this. It’s absolutely what Stannis would do.

Euron would have done some magic on the ballistas in the books.

just git gud

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damn i loved using that overpowered shit on battlefield

Or Euron commandeering some of their fleet on the way to pick up Dany’s forces. She’d fly right up on them before she even knew they were the enemy.

It's not only about aim, it's literally fucking impossible for medieval balistas to have this kind of range and power.

Fucking kek.

Remember that episode 3? this has become an Italian B movie, they have a lot of money to burn as fast as possible

lol

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>Aren't dragons supposed to have thick scales that act as armor? How the fuck did an arrow penetrate that?
Martin has said that pretty much the only way to take out a dragon with a medieval projectile weapon is if you get it right through the eye. Those bolts should have just bounced off the dragons, the only person in any danger in that scene should have been Dany herself, because she still isn't wearing armor for some fucking reason

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basilisks aren´t even anything new in westeros. dorne used it hundreds of years ago to kill a dragon and the nights watch has some on the wall as well.
they should have introduced dragon armor to counter it lore wise.
it makes no sense that the targaryen dynasty would not try to counter it while they still had dragons and limitless resources.
Then have cerics master invent canons or those mini rockets the british used during the Napoleonic wars.
this way it makes sense why danny is so unprepared for it since literally no dragon has ever had to encounter it up until now.
the new force of gunpowder making dragons obsolete would have also added a nice new theme and be a good parallel to how gunpowder in the real world had made horse archers which had been the most OP military force up to this date less powerful less of a thread to western nations.

This meme needs to die.

>dorne used it hundreds of years ago to kill a dragon
Only because they managed to hit it in the eye, an impossibly lucky shot.
>they should have introduced dragon armor to counter it lore wise.
>it makes no sense that the targaryen dynasty would not try to counter it
The Targaryens didn't need to counter it because the ballista just didn't hurt the dragons 9999/10000 times.

kek

Daily reminder Euron's scorpion had to be firing at Mach 6 with enough force to shatter his entire ship to hit Viserion

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>The Targaryens didn't need to counter it because the ballista just didn't hurt the dragons 9999/10000 times.
so how come it is able to take down dragons so easily in the show?

you watch the scene a second time and notice the balistas on ALL the boats

>ignoring one of aegons dragons and sister were taken out by a scorpion armed by the dornish

Y’all don’t have a problem with capt America shield or the impossible gun play in 90% of cinema but this is where you draw the line? Have sex incel

Because the show's writing is terrible now

Yes, that was the one that got hit in the eye then crashed down onto a castle

not to defend the show but Euron used a different ballista design. one with 2 strings instead of just one.
his seems also to be bigger.
then again I am no expert on military siege and battle engines

Because it's a fucking fanfic written by two retards.

Those are actually heat-seeking AA missiles, Qyburn has been really busy.

If we're in a universe that aims to be a realistic medieval world but with fantastical elements such as dragons, shit still needs to adhere to the laws of physics.

>Have sex incel
Again?

And he's not shooting telephone pole sized projectiles

>Negative, I have the gun. Good luck, Your Grace.

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Because D&D are in full "fuck it let's wrap it up mode" for the plot and did as little as necessary.

Catapults and Ballistas were a complete meme IRL. Only good in Age of Empires games.

It was all about Trebuchets and battering rams.

Have sex. Have sex for a job. Have sex for a career. Have sex for a family. Have sex for a fucking big television. Have sex for washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers... Have sex for DSY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Have sex sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit crushing game shows, stucking junk food into your mouth. Have sex while rotting away in the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourself, Have sex for your future. Have sex... But why would I want to do a thing like that?

you don't. It's bad writing.

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What if Huron and his fleet aimed for Dany but killed Rhaegal instead?

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Then it means somehow they failed 3 times in a row.

In the books, is a scorpion powerful enough to blow up a ship like that?

Why does she always fly her best dragon? She should keep him in reserve.

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My sex life in one GIF

Its obvious the bolt is poorly balanced. The center of gravity and center of pressure are in the same place, which makes for an unstable projectile. The center of gravity must be in front of the center of pressure for it to fly in a straight line.

This has been asked hundreds of times already. just give up and turn your brain off for the remaining two episodes.

It wasn't funny the first time, schizo, Stop.

Euron had sex, and continues to be motivated by SEX. you wouldn't understand, OP. turn off your brain and turn on your dick. sex is one of the biggest motivators, if not THE biggest motivator. stop beating your own dick off. its bad for you.

It's all about the wind really

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*boing*

I agree that the /got/ ballista/scorpion is retarded but that thing is just firing a freaking tree without leaves and roots

I giggled.

This, people are falling for a clear Targeyren false flag to justify an invasion of King's landing

not true, they were just used differently from how you think they were, basically they just set up like 500 meters away and kept chucking spears at the guys manning the wall(its a giant crossbow not even that hard to hit with), presumably while drinking and making bets because sieges are fucking boring and long.

I loved blowing you map camping faggots up with (appropriately) tv-guided missiles from across the map

kek

Even cannonballs didn't destroyed ships that easily, mostly ships were just captured.

>How the FUCK do you hit a dragon from hundreds of miles away from behind an island ON YOUR FIRST ATTEMPT

OP nothing makes any sense on this show anymore, anything can happend for muh twist. Just forget about it, watch the end and then buy the books to get the real ending. End of story.

How the fuck does a goblina kill a thousand year old evil zombie?

>And Westeros didnt discovered gunpowder or thought of using all the alchemistic stuff they have to propell ammo.

Why not have wildfire cannons?

Indeed! Lucky shots, but Danys plotarmor protected her and dammend her other dragon!

The bigger the better!

Indeed. They even know how to make a wodden stake wall higly inflammable.
But noone invented a gun or cannon. Andals and Valeria rose 6000-5000 years ago after their timeline.
So they had several roman and similar civilisations up to 2000-3000 years before our world.
Still they are like our 1400!

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Sexist.

No. Wouldn't be that fast or that stupidly accurate either.

With how massively fucking top heavy that bolt is, it would nose dive into the ground the moment it tried to gain any height. Never mind the fact that hitting a moving target half a mile in the air from a rocking boat is borderline fucking impossible. There is a reason anti-aircraft guns on boats fire hundreds of shots and hit once.

I'd honestly be fine if Euron got lucky as fuck and landed a grazing hit. Maybe injuring one of the dragons enough to take it out of the next big battle. But ffs if hitting three perfect shots in a row was fucking bullshit.

People who index an entire thread in a single reply should be banned.

the projectile is way too heavy for the launcher.

Not true. Most throwing implements have the CoG and application of force be the same point. The exception would be anything on a chain (e.g.hammer throw) but that generates distance off rotation rather than a uniform and linear application of force.

The issue is entirely the ballista lacking the ability to apply enough force.

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Poor writing, overinflated value of a character, trying to add shock value regardless of how stupid it looks, etc
Nothing good. You know this, I know this; what’s the use in complaining?