Dragons are way to weak

[ejnomad07]

Honestly, I think they are exactly as powered as they should be. Balerion is pretty much god, I easily won Aegons conquest. As it goes for the other younger dragons it is even stated in canon lore that they aren't as powerfull as they were in the earlier version. In the Queen and Princess story, the Targaeryans made great effort to recruit the Lords Paramount. Armies was also the reason why Aegon managed to "win" even though he had many fewer dragons than Rhaenyra.

They only had two more dragon's than the other side, and treachery of two blacks to the greens side didn't help. Aegon also had the older stronger dragon's like Sunfyre and Vhagar. Armies were only important because both sides were even matched with Dragon armies not because dragon's were weak.

Not really. Dragon's were basically artillery and only really effective in wide open areas, like the Field of Fire. The Dornish Rebellions, Faith Rebellion, Dance of the Dragons and the Storming of the Dragonpit are all great examples of ineffective dragons.

Not really,

The Dornish got a lucky shot in the Dragon's eye and killed it. That's just luck that saved them.

Dance of the Dragons was Dragon vs Dragon you can't say Dragon's were ineffective when they are fighting themselves. lol If only one side had Dragon's I'm sure it would have been a short war.

Storming of the Dragonpit is a laughable example. You want to say Dragon's are ineffective against armies when they are chained down inside a building? lol

 

[D Toccs]

How do you do that? I've only managed to get Aegon to deploy his, even when the sisters are also leading troops in the field.

Dragonriders leading troops will use their dragons on their own, if it is not your character you will not recieve the pop ups about it, but if you watch the battle you will be able to tell when they do it. Note that if their dragon has been wounded they will not be able to be used.

For maximum effect and to fully utilize the tactics, you should have Aegon in the center with a sister on each flank. Attacking the Lannister/Gardener megastack with anything less than all 3 dragons is suicicde.

 

[Caezaire]

It also took the Lords of Valyria five separate wars to finally defeat the Ghiscari empire. We've seen that dragons are beatable, the reason Aegon won is that everyone was terrified of them because they'd never fought dragons before. Even at the field of fire only 1/10 of the forces arrayed were even killed. That number is pretty low for the massive route that happened. The system is nicely modeled now because of the morale damage and the increased chance of enemy rulers dying on the field.

 

[LordSolar]

It also took the Lords of Valyria five separate wars to finally defeat the Ghiscari empire.

I think Valyria defeated Ghis in the first war. But Ghis just kept trying to rise up again and again

 

[SkyGaiman]

I've also noticed that after a few times deploying a dragon in battle, I can no longer deploy them in battle, only in sieges.