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    $\begingroup$ Logistics are core to large efforts. Setting fields on fire would be nasty in medieval agriculture. It could threaten famine in many towns. $\endgroup$
    – Gustavo
    Commented Feb 27, 2020 at 21:00
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    $\begingroup$ Yep. Heck, send in some auxillaries to far flung towns in the enemy nation and start setting fields on fire undetected. $\endgroup$
    – Paul TIKI
    Commented Feb 27, 2020 at 21:31
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    $\begingroup$ +1 for how they could be excellent at disrupting logistics $\endgroup$
    – user71781
    Commented Feb 27, 2020 at 21:53
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    $\begingroup$ @NixonCranium It's the only real role I can imagine them for. A medium sized predator is too hard to control in something like a pitched battle. They could easily do as much damage to their own side as the enemy. They could also get mobbed by enemy soldiers and killed. But hit the food supply right and it's all over but the dying. $\endgroup$
    – Paul TIKI
    Commented Feb 27, 2020 at 22:09
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    $\begingroup$ In one of the books of Naomi Novik’s Temeraire series (I forget which book, but about the 5th or 6th in the series I think), the protagonists do just this, using a small dragon force to harass the French supply caravans. It’s horribly effective, and in the end discontinued as everyone involved agrees it’s too cruel and dishonourable. $\endgroup$
    – Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine
    Commented Feb 28, 2020 at 9:31