The Bellower - Issue #3 Out Now!

The third issue of the Stronghold's Ogre Kingdoms webzine is available to download now! You can find it here.



In this issue:
Cover art by Tushan
From the Gut with Editor Randroid
Ask Aunty Doreen
Avatars of War Ogre Miniature Review
Tactics For Tyrants - Magic Items Overview
Blood Bowl Gnoblar Team
The Ballad of Captain Margaret
Butcher's Cauldron - Greenstuff Banner
Armies of the Stronghold - BeastMum's Ogres

Hope you enjoy!

If you have feedback, praise, suggestions, or contributions for future issues, let the Bellower Team know about it! You can email us at bellower@ogrestronghold.com, or leave your comments here.

Lastly, the Bellower Team are hiring! If you'd like to join the team and help put together future issues of the Bellower, please get in touch with Randroid. Thanks!

Again, a great Bellower!
The pages about the new and not that new magic items were really inspiring.

There is one thing that is not right in my humble opinion: The Razor Standard IS kind of useful in a unti of bulls since the ogre club is not AP. It just has the same effect, but not the special rule.
So it could be worth 1 or two gnobs...

Keep on happy writing! 

Excellent job! A very good rundown of the various new magic items I found some of the breakdowns matching my own opinions. I liked the Gnoblar Bloodbowl team, Bloodbowl is an interesting game with a lot of detailed modeling and I LOVED the counts-as Trolls.

Thanks guys.

Fair warning - I fully expect to hear rebuttals and different opinions on the magic item overview. Even Wildcard and I didn't fully agree on many of the items... the score in the Bellower is a happy medium between the two of us in most cases.

I didn't want to complain about the fact that item X only got y gnoblars, it was meant to be a rules "question"...in the wrong forum. 

Great Read Guys....

Another great issue, keep up the great work guys!

A job well done guys, only mistake was with the razor banner, it's awesome in a unit of bulls because ogre clubs DO NOT have AP.  so then it's -3 AS when you drop your BSB with razor banner in a unit of naked bulls.

Other than that, it's a great Bellower.

Great job as usual.
I was surprised to see that the Standard of Dicipline only got 1 Gnoblar, because if you put the Tyrant in the IG unit with the Standard, then your Tyrant becomes Ld 10 and still gets to use Inspiring Presence.
NM though, good job!

A job well done guys, only mistake was with the razor banner, it's awesome in a unit of bulls because ogre clubs DO NOT have AP.  so then it's -3 AS when you drop your BSB with razor banner in a unit of naked bulls.

This was already mentioned in the thread above - I still wouldn't rate this banner all that high when compared to some of the other options available. If Bulls could carry a magic banner on their own this one would be great!

I was surprised to see that the Standard of Dicipline only got 1 Gnoblar, because if you put the Tyrant in the IG unit with the Standard, then your Tyrant becomes Ld 10 and still gets to use Inspiring Presence.

Again, this comes down to just not having enough magic banner carrying options in our army list. Perhaps when we get a new book things like this will have more of a place.

i think we are the only army currently who can only have 2 magic banners in the whole army no matter the point limit.  i swear if that one line was removed there would be no bull mobs, it would only be blocks of Ironguts and magic banners with the 3 required bulls over in the corner going "What about us?" who might as well be treated as gnoblar leapers.


my warrior of chaos army has 3 units that can take banners and the BSB and none of them are "one per army" restrictions... is anyone even close to being as banner screwed as us?

is anyone even close to being as banner screwed as us?

Well, lizardmen sort of, also WE (mostly because they hardly ever take units with banners...) and beasts of chaos.

i just did a read through:
Wood Elves get tons of banner options, if they don't take them that's there own fault.
Lizardmen only have 2 units that can take 50 points of magic banners, but they are both special choices, so limited pretty bad.
But Beastmen take the last 1/4 of our suck cake with only 1 unit that can take magic banners and it is also special, so if you pull you 3 max special options you can have 4 magic banners.

i feel bad for the Beastmen most, because they're books new and they got banner screwed... at least we have something to look forward to.

Initial flip through looks good, I'll review it shortly.

woah, someone doesn't like the banner of discipline? the best banner there is (just before the flaming banner)?

It's a pretty good banner but we just don't have many magic banner carrying options.

I have to praise the bellower team. To put out this kind of quality full colour e-zine, not once, but three times is a real achievement. I don't want to even know how much free time you guys invested in this. Keep up the good work!

Since there's alot of lively discussions about items, I must say I think the thundermace is underrated. With the new template rules, it can kill alot of troops (like 14 dark elf executioners in one hit ) and since infantry is now playing a big role in most lists this can be really be effective. I ran it with the crown of command, just in case I missed (which as always I did) but even if it hits in round 2, you're tyrant is killing more than he probably would with a normal weapon and it is still s4( 8 ) unlike a normal stone thrower.

Thanks for all the positive feedback, guys, we really appreciate it

Gives us the strenght and needed motivation to carry on with The Bellower, even though our numbers are severly limited...You can look forward to the next issue

good one guys I always enjoy reading auntie Doreen and what about the other blood bowl team the Ogres ??!

Don't worry we'll get to them!