Dragon carrying box containing knights --> medieval/fantasy personnel carrier!

[ChernayaAkula]

Here's a quick sketch I did of a dragon carrying a "box" (for lack of a better term) that contains knights. Sort of a medieval/fantasy personnel carrier. Especially suitable to quickly overcome an enemy's defensive structures. In this sketch, the dragon drops a squad of knights on the tower of a castle. The box is from wood with iron fittings and hand- or rather claw-holds for the dragon. Upon landing, the hatch is opened and the knights can commence their assault. Hope to make a diorama of this scene. One day.  



I got this idea from the trailer of a fantasy PC game. Must have been in the late 1990s or early 2000s. I don't recall the game's name, but I think the scene was from a cut-scene or opening credits or something like that. I'm pretty sure, though, that the dragon handled the container like that. Does anybody, by chance, know that game? With a name, one could possibly find the scene on YouTube or somesuch.

[philp]

Never seen the idea before but the dragon can provide covering fire (pun intended) while the knights deploy.

[Fulcrum]

Even though I am not much into medieval stuff- I think it's AWESOME!!!

[NARSES2]

Can we lock Radish out from this thread 

Great stuff, I can see that in fantasy games 

[nev]

That's awesome, although less of an APC, more of a battlefield helicopter   Vertical envelopment, medieval style

[lancer]

What a bloody brilliant idea!!

[ChernayaAkula]

Thanks, guys! 

But does anybody recognize the game? I'm fairly sure that it was a cut-scene or trailer as the mental image I have of the scene was way too detailed for in-game graphics of those days. Also, it had a "directed" look and not one ofa player's perspective. Over on ARC someone mentioned Ultima and Everquest as possibles.

[pyro-manic]

I don't know of any game, but in the first Temeraire book (by Naomi Novik - excellent series), Napoleon attacks across the channel using heavyweight dragons carrying large wooden vessels that contain his troops.  They're more like boat hulls than boxes, but they have large carrying handles for the dragons to grip.

[Steel Penguin]

i dont know re the computer game, but ive been in a couple of  table top role playing games, where the ground attack option was a dragon with a pair of pine trees in its claws,  that realy put the wind up the ground based folks.

[puddingwrestler]

Zvezda (yes, Zvezda of all people, the Russian partner of Italeri) make a game called 'Rings of Rule' which features and orc thing called a 'Siegasaurus' or somesuch - basically a T-Rex with paniers for troops...
Warhammer Lizardmen have Stegadons, basically Triceratopses with howdahs...
And just about every warhammer race has access to a dragon of some sort, or equivilent big flappy thing, but Warhammer dragons are too small for more than one rider.
Then of course there is Dragonmech, an RPG involving a post-apocalyptic fantasy world in which meteors constantly crash down, meaning the only things which can survive the surface are... giant magical mecha. Elves use magic to move thier mecha, orcs uses slave power... I expect tyou could work a dragon troop carrier in there.

[Radish]

Amazingly I have a twin-headed Dragon that just might be useful......