I came across this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs7dscJfx0M touting itself to be footage of TES V. Safe to say that it definitely ISN'T but it gives a flavour of what combat with a dragon could be.

I certainly hope that dragons will fly and swoop in to attack rather than attack on land like giant ogres something only landing for the kill when they think you've been weakened suitably.

However given that single combat with dragons is to be a regular event in the game this might be a disadvantage to purely melee characters since they'd find it hard to hit a flying dragon! Perhaps playing dead is a way to lure them to land?

OR maybe there'll be different types of dragons and the flying ones would be more like set piece boss battles with ways to ground them for melee characters using the environment

what do others think?

Different types would work pretty well - like flying ones hard to hit with melee attacks, ones with resistances to magic/certain spells, grounded ones. I know nothing of dragons, but I don't think they all fly, do they? That would be kinda boring.

There are a bunch of ideas about dragons and how they'll fight in http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1156685-dragons/

Like in Oblivion: shooting an unrealistic amount of arrows until it looks like a pincushion. :whistling:

Thanks for the link.