Dragon vs. Mass Effect Troops

Mass Effect troops.
Their armor is tough enough to survive most of the dragons physical attacks, and are designed to handle environments worse than any of the elemental attacks the dragon might use.
Meanwhile their weapons would rip straight through the dragon’s hide. Not to mention their tech and biotic abilities.

It's an interesting scenario. DA is so steeped in magic, exotic materials not found on Earth, superhuman races, etc. it's a really formidable combination.

Yeah, a decked out team in DA can take down a High Dragon. But any race that can gain levels - humans/elves/dwarves, quickly become superhuman by Earth's standards. Add to that magic weapons, armor, potions, exotic crafting materials, and fantastical abilities and yeah... I think that dragon can give even advanced civilizations fits. Dragons have a lot of AoE attacks, stun attacks, breath weapons with a slight homing ability, dragonlings to assist, high armor, guard generation, resistances, good mobility, some can create magical mines, etc.. It would boil down to how resilient dragon plate armor (which is harder than steel) is to futuristic weapons.

Was I the only one who first read troops as tropes?

Let's just say I expected a different conversation coming in here

We're talking about the use of a futuristic army that uses firearms that can send rounds at small percentages of the speed of light. I highly doubt a dragon would survive such a scenario. There's already two magic equivalents in the Mass Effect universe (Engineers and Biotics). Need to make a Barrier to ward off elemental attacks? There's an ability for that. Need to use fire against an Ice Dragon? There's an ability for that too.

mages. mages vs engineers though... not sure how the mages have a chance...

It depends on three things how many blue suns mercs there are,what weapons do they have,and finally if they don't panic. Remember seeing a dragon come at you would be scary and battles are rarely won when one side is wiped out but usually are won when one side breaks and retreats.

That said if it was more then two blue suns with assault rifles (or anything besides weak pistols and weak shotguns) and the two or more blue suns had decent aim and ammo I would put my money on them. Simply because one of a dragons biggest benefits is getting close to it is extremly dangerous since it is so big and swords and axes have a hard time going through scales or doing enough damage to be worth the risk of getting close to it and it takes an insane amount of arrows to matter and given how weak arrows are and how shallow they would go it would do less damage to a dragon then a scrape (outside gameplay where it slowly weakens the dragon over time by hitting it so much)

It's like having WW1 weapons against a B-29 super fortress. the B29 would have been untouchable at the altitude it flew but if you used it in modern warfare it would get destroyed with ease by even the most basic AA guns since it is so slow and has no tech in it like modern aircraft do. So while a dragon against midevil soldiers with mid evil weaponry would be devastating and all but unkillable in modern times or rather in future times it would get destroyed quick.


Good question though

But perhaps dragon armor is like a magically "shield-buffed" armor - even harder to penetrate than Atlas shield-buffed armor. Plus, Cerberus troops die from 2 hit of Incinerate. Dragon shoots plumes of violent incineration.

Exactly. The harvester is essentially a high dragon. But not as revered and feared. A bit more like Nazgul fellbeasts. Architect? Like from Awakening? Meh.

no. architect like the ones from andromeda, as in the link i provided...

Forget whittling, the fastest high dragon solos are with archers shooting from melee range; take the right build and the fight is over in a couple seconds. You can also take them down pretty fast with solo daggers.

ME weapons would melt them.

No need to team up if they’ve got fully-upgraded Mighty Offense Tonics. The math on those is insane for rogues. Pincushion, stealth, flanking, crits... everything they do is a multiplier, so the “modest” damage boosts of MOTs become monstrous.