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About Draconian Measures

The regiment of draconian engineers featured in The Doom Brigade seek a safe haven for their precious cargo of young draconians. All they have to do is stay alive. Surely that shouldn't be too hard.

But Commander Kang puzzles over a sinister mystery. Why are some of his men vanishing? Kang will have to use draconian measures to defeat his foes and save his race. They'd better be enough -- the fate of his entire race hangs in the balance.

Review

Welcome to another DragonLance Saga episode. It is Misham, Brookgreen the 3rd, my name is Adam and today I am going to give you my Spoiler review of Draconian Measures by Margaret Weis & Don Perrin. I will be spoiling the story, so if you don’t want to know it, stop watching now! I would like to take a moment and thank the members of this YouTube channel, and invite you to consider becoming a member by visiting the link in the description below. You can even pick up Dragonlance gaming materials using my affiliate link. This is my perspective only, and if you have any thoughts or disagree with mine, I invite you to share them in YouTube chat.

We open with a brief recap of the last novel, and Kang’s regiment traveling across the plains of Dust before starting to turn north toward the Khur Mountains. They started getting attacked by Goblins. Between the goblins and winter, it caused them to delay for a year! With only around one hundred and fifty miles till they reached their destination, and having come over two hundred so far, the delay was bothersome to say the least. The goblins' attacks became more and more deadly, and though the draconians repelled them with every assault, they did lose some of their own in every skirmish.

Kang set up an ambush to end the attacks for good, but the rout ended as a faint by the goblins, luring the draconians into a trap. The goblins were disciplined and being led by hobgoblins, their larger cousins. The Hobgoblin general was chasing a bounty from an unknown entity, and the hobgoblin army was too much for the regiment to handle. Kang began to turn their series of skirmishes into a retreat up to a hilltop when a couple of the female draconians saw metal glinting in the canyon below. The females are being protected even though after a year they are fully grown. They are not listened to and are treated as children. This is a problem I witnessed growing up. I spent my informative years in a small town filled with religious zealots and hunters and all I saw were women treated like possessions and ostensibly slaves. This never sat right with me as my mother and sisters were independent and strong. They were taught not to rely on men, but to be their own person, an idea that was foreign to the community, and certainly to the regiment in the story. 

Fonrar and Thesik, two female draconians, went to investigate the flashes they saw and it turned out to be other draconians! They fawned over Thesik, who is an Aurak, and they sent the ninth and third draconian infantry to help Kang. They arrived just in time, as Kang and Slith were facing the end against the hobgoblin general and his bodyguards, and the hobgoblin army sounded the retreat as the new draconian troops flooded their flank. They were introduced to the commanders, Prokel and Yakanoh,