If the ships were within 500m of the dragons they would surely have been noticed, and the additional requirement to shoot up at a high target means there is little chance of them having enough range. Trying to fire one from a moving ship, at a fast moving target in the air seems far fetched. against a static target on the same level as the ballista. Presumably that is when used as a siege weapon, i.e. As Wikipedia notes, the weapon was accurate (when mounted on the ground) but also had an effective range of only around 460m (for the later Roman version). It seems very unlikely that the scorpion bolts could reach the dragons.Īccording to Popular Mechanics, the Scorpion is based on a real weapon, the ballista. Should I worry about those things, or just sit back and enjoy the show? Euron could be a better marksman than Lee Harvey Oswald, but the weapon supposed to have its limitations. For a scorpion, which fires projectiles at considerably slower speed, accurate targeting of a distant aerial target should be outright impossible. My understanding is that the above is very hard to do even with a modern rifle. Scorpion's projectiles appear to be more devastating than pirate era cannonballs.Scorpion is able to get reloaded in a span of several seconds.Scorpion is able to hit such target with deadly accuracy.Scorpion is able to hit aerial target hundreds of yards away with.I didn't notice if his fleet had multiple scorpions, but even if it had, the whole encounter looks incredulous. How that is possible?Įuron Greyjoy uses ship-mounted scorpion very efficiently against Dany's Rhaegal and later her ships.
During tense standoff, Bronn fires the bolt, and then reloads the crossbow, using one hand (not even full arm) in about one second. In Episode 4, Bronn walks into a room with Jaime and Tyrion.
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