REALLY OT: Shooting Down a Dragon

[pmulcahy11b]

Originally Posted by copeab

Doomfarers of Coramonde featured an M113 ACAV and it's crew transported to a fantasy world to kill a dragon.

Their plan was:
1) Have a crewman pretend to be a virgin sacrifice dressed up in, a well, dress. When the dragon got close enough, he tossed a WP grenade in the dragon's mouth. Didn't kill the dragon, but did expend all his ready fuel.

Definitely couldn't have been an American crew... No one of military age is a virgin anymore in this country...

[Cdnwolf]

Guess no one has seen the movie Reign of Fire then?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Fire_(film)

Days later, a team of American volunteers arrive, led by Denton Van Zan (Matthew McConaughey) and bringing a Chieftain tank and an Agusta A109 helicopter, piloted by Alex Jensen (Izabella Scorupco). Van Zan and his heavily armed band of 200 soldiers have devised an elaborate tracking system to hunt and kill dragons.

[Legbreaker]

Originally Posted by Cdnwolf

Guess no one has seen the movie Reign of Fire then?

Unrealistic in some ways (like Dragons!) but soooo cool.
Shame the greater bulk of the unit was so quickly defeated without adequately covering it in the film - seemed like thye tacked it on almost as an afterthought to give a reason why only three people were left to face the male.

[Adm.Lee]

When I was in college, I remember asking one of my military history profs to be a moderator for the game club (we were about 1/3 minis gamers, 2/3 RPG'ers). He asked me if D&D was still popular; he and his Air Force pals (apparently Vietnam vets) had tried it in the '70s. They found that satchel charges were effective against the dragons, but B-40 rockets worked much better.

He never did play with us, but he did visit a few times.

[copeab]

Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b

Definitely couldn't have been an American crew... No one of military age is a virgin anymore in this country...

As it turned out, the dragon was too old to care

[Cdnwolf]

What's a virgin? Is that something like the Easter Bunny or Santa Claus?

[weswood]

Of course, if I were running the game, the heat seeking missiles would go after the fire the dragon breathed, not the dragon itself.

There was a show about dragons on the Discovery channel a couple years ago. I can't remember why, but the dragons would eat rocks of some type, maybe iron pyrite, for either fuel or the ignition source.

[copeab]

Originally Posted by weswood

There was a show about dragons on the Discovery channel a couple years ago. I can't remember why, but the dragons would eat rocks of some type, maybe iron pyrite, for either fuel or the ignition source.

I remember that show. IIRC, it presented biologically "realistic" types of dragons.

Ah, four dragon types and it was on Animal Planet:

http://animal.discovery.com/convergence/dragons/