How would you kill or capture a dragon?

Question

I want to know what weaknesses there are, any method you would use if one was to exist, it can be med-evil or our tecknology whichever or however you please.
I'll give you my sample try giving it a maiden sacrifice to spare your town then send a dragon slayer to save her, thats the traditional way.

Answer 1

Blow it out of the sky with an Anti-Air Missle Defence System...shoot that mythical baby out of the sky!

Answer 2

Well, it depends. What type of dragon? I would use a different strategy for an ice dragon as opposed to a fire dragon. If I were in China and facing a river spirit (water dragon), I would definitely have to use yet another tactic.

A few examples:

Fire dragon: I would have to use in industrial-sized super soaker. Something along the lines of a sperm whale bladder used as the reservoir. This would be wheeled to the dragon's lair using a modified seige engine base.

Water dragon: The biggest weakness of a water dragon is to pollute the source of their power. I would host an NCAA Football Bowl game alongside the body of water which the dragon was associated. The filth and litter that results from one of these events are sufficient to pollute anything short of an ocean.

Ice Dragon: I would take the egg of a fire dragon hostag and require that the fire dragon defeat the ice dragon to win back the egg. If this was successful, I woul be certain to make sure I was nowhere near my city when the egg was returned for fear of reprisal.

Answer 3

I hate the maiden thing. That was thought up by kings and headmen to save their own skins, since they obviously weren't virgin or maiden.

Personally, depends on your world. Usually a large group with some very powerful mages or artifacts. Depending on the "color" dragon, you might be able to get "good" ones fight "bad," but again, that depends on what goes on in your world.

You wanna use modern tech? 50 caliber shell in high power sniper rifle from 200 yards away. If it'll go through a tank, it'll go through a dragon. Personally, anything bigger just makes too much of a mess.

You wanna go medieval? Heavy ballistae. Not something a good dragon could catch, preferably something sharp, and made of metal or stone. Maybe, a really big crossbow quarrel-type affair, made of metal and greased down. That way, you don't have to deal with the dragon while it dies slowly from a crushing injury, they won't be able to get a grip on the thing with the foreclaws, and they won't be able to incinerate the blasted thing in midair. Now, that won't work for a black; the acid would destroy it, and as they've immunity to acid themselves, wouldn't do any good. A fire dragons' breath would throw a fireball back into its' face, and a white would end up with a really cold bolt through the chest.

For those of more...sophisticated personalities, such as the intelligent Chinese versions, you can usually convince them to leave with an intellectual problem; a riddle or question of logic. Like gryphons, they are supposedly sticklers for that. But only if you observe traditional respect for them. Otherwise, I hope you like bread, cause you're gonna end up between two pieces of it.

Now, for capturing a dragon, why in all bloody hell would you want to? They are intelligent creatures; they'll not tame to be ridden once you've caught them. As soon as they get the opportunity, you're a piece of human toast. And remember, one-on-one, a dragon will simply outlive a human, since their lifespans are, oh, something like...50 times our own. If you really want to "capture" a dragon, you'd want to go for the young, before they've learned to fly. If you can get past Momma, of course. Then again, that may just bring on the exact scenario you've suggested. Did you go kidnap some poor little dragonet, you evil man?

And screw the village, I'm leaving, quite frankly. Hell, I'd probably be the first staked up for dinner.

Answer 4

Get a whole bunch of meat... i.e. cows and pigs and stuff and put it in a huge cart mixed with quicklime.... the dragon will devour all that stuff up and go to the river to drink some water. The water will mix with the quicklime and explode inside his stomach.


Otherwise you can just sneak up on him while he is sleeping...like in the hobbit.

You have to find his weak spots beforehand and then go with a normal spear and kill him and get the girl and live happily ever after.

Answer 5

I would use a bunch of maidens as decoys, leading the dragon into a lake. I would then have a REAL FAT maiden, I mean REAL FAT, about 1,000 pounds lying in the middle of the lake. When the dragon eats her, he will be so heavy he sinks. When he is in over his head in water, his fire will go out, rendering him helpless.

Answer 6

i would never kill a dragon i would possibly capture one but the way they were in the mid-eveil times they did not understand the powers of the dragon for healing and so much to say people so i hope people will learn the whole truth of the dragons healing powers

Answer 7

the weak place is the flesh in the underarm has little if any protection. if you were very talented you could have used a ballista, a huge crossbow, on wheels, and have shot one under the arm in toward the heart.

Answer 8

Lure a second dragon in to fight the first and then defeat the one that wins(having been weakened by the fight).

Answer 9

first of all you need a dragon. show me one and i'll show you how to capture it
kidding
since it's a mythological figure, think out your own solution. that's what legends are for- imagination

Answer 10

Be very careful when meddling with dragons. Humans are tasty and good with ketchup.