Recent content by Crooked Bird

Thank you! I'm thinking they likely wouldn't have ballistas, as they'd have had nothing to use them on till 2 weeks ago (when the dragon mysteriously came into existence, long story.) I hadn't thought of grapeshot in the cannon! That's good, thank you. The dragon actually has some strong...

Ooh, thanks! Oh, that makes sense about spreading out troops, that's good! You would know about the dragon b/c it's hit 2 cities by then. Somehow I felt like this might not translate to commanders expecting it to hit armies in the field but I suppose that's illogical (and it's really that I'm...

This is good, thank you! I had thought a bit about cover; embarrassingly, it's taken me until writing this response to figure out that forest could actually constitute cover from a dragon, even though it can burn--because if it's thick enough, it can hide you. (And really nothing will outright...

That's an interesting thought, thanks!

Well that's encouraging! So the hope is this: the siege lasts maybe a month, maybe a month and a half (still working on the timeline.) The defending nation is getting together a relief army, but the invaders start using the dragon against the relief army rather than the besieged city. I'm still...

Thank you all, this is encouraging. Yes, exactly. This is good, yeah. I was thinking of having the soldiers & inhabitants work together to quell the fires started in the first bombing & their success establishes a very high morale right at the start. Thanks for the examples. This brings up...

Sorry to have been imprecise! They have way more than 2000 men; I only meant that no more than 2000 of them are the elite force that has no fear. I haven't run exact numbers yet (this is actually more of a character-driven story, so the siege is not my starting point for building the plot but I...

Oooh this is so good. Thank you for this! I have one of these (army w/o fear), and I will be coming back to ask you about it most likely. What you've said here is kind of what I'd thought, but I'm no expert so it's good to hear it from you. But today I have a different question. I'm doing a...

This was quite literally my experience with Facebook: - in my email: so-and-so is asking if you're her friend! can you confirm whether you're her friend? (I click yes because anything else feels rude) - on the website I've been suddenly transported to: congrats! You've joined Facebook! Here's...