More like RL ship combat. They have canons & muskets, not browning 50s.
I'm guessing that anyone with airships is going to have decent ranges on their weaponry. Especially given that what we've seen of their weaponry isn't exactly primitive. Rifled barrels aren't that important to range.
Beg yer pardon? It makes a huge difference- that +bullet profile & what kind of powder they use. According to the wiki, the difference between a rifled-musket (a rifle) and a musket was a factor of 5. And these things go hand in hand- he had a musket on him. They're not going to be sporting modern artillery pieces if the guy's armed with a musket. It's a good thing airships are nice, fat, slow-moving targets; they can fight eachother with cannon and muskets.
I'm not as much of an expert on firearms as I'd like to be.
Fair enough, my assumption was wrong after all.
I'll try to identify and point out your assumptions more quickly in the future.
They aren't too plussed by us being a dragon- we've heard of a dragon-king, and the reactions indicate we're not too common. Their technology may have made them cocky, and steampunk's instilled in me a tendency to assume everyone's nationalistic. Aka not estimating opponent's capabilities fairly.
"Sir, it looks like there's a...dragon on the rock."
"Destroy it too, the vermin's probably in-league with the elves."
That kind of thing.
We're clearly not a normal dragon, however. In any case, it would take quite a stupid dwarf to decide to antagonize a dragon for no real reason.
Or a headstrong dwarf that has an armada at his back. I don't think they'd be able to tell the difference between a normal dragon and an abnormal dragon, nor would they necessarily care.
I cannot think of any reason to antagonize a dragon in this situation. If there was a gain? Perhaps. For no particular reason? No.
In any case, we are
made of ice and bone, tell me how that is not obviously abnormal. And abnormal means unknown, which means they wouldn't know what we could do, which means they wouldn't antagonize us without good reason. Which they lack.
Do we really want to stay and have our hand forced like that?
As opposed to what, flying away and forcing our hand in a different direction, more strongly and certainly?
What direction? If we had stayed and they had all started fighting, we would have been fired upon. Our more belligerent members would have cried for attack!, and they would have been justified. It'd be rather significantly harder to be friends or neutral with the dwarves after that, and we would have gained nothing for it.
Precisely. Hence why I wanted to stay.
...What did
you want to do?
