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Jan White Dwarf Cover Featuring Chaos Spotted!

By Rob Baer | November 28th, 2016 | Categories: Warhammer 40k, Warhammer 40k Rumors

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Chaos is back! Come see a teaser of the new White Dwarf Cover for Jan 2017 featuring Chaos Space Marines!

Games Workshop left us without a dope Chaos beat to step to for far too long, but boy are they making up for it as of late!

First it was Tzeentch, and now Chaos as a whole is stepping into the limelight starting with Codex Traitor Legions. Judging from January’s White Dwarf cover there may perhaps be more to the next release than we imagined!

Miniwars reported this today (translated):

Tremendous news from Games Workshop Roger de Llúria for the whole community hispanohabalante. From January we will have the White Dwarf in the language of Cervantes!

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Someone sees skewers .. for example .. Ezekyle Abaddon, first member of Mournival, right handof the Lord of Horus War, better known in 40k as  Abaddon the Despoiler?

This image was posted on a GW store Site with the following translated text:

If you want to subscribe for the whole 2017 in Spanish, come to the store to do your subscription before 13 December and save all year to not lose you nor a number!

So as Miniwars eluded to, it does appear to be Abaddon the Despoiler hiding behind the blacked out area at first glance, BUT it could obviously just be a generic lord of Chaos hefting a sword to the Heavens as well!

A quick scan of several relavant search terms on Google yielded no help as to the art depicted on the cover unfortunetly. Coompare the cover art then to Abaddon’s miniature:

abaddon_miniatureCould it be the Despoiler on the cover? Well speaking of miniatures, if that IS Abaddon, what would it mean? Surly you can’t have a new supplement and a Black Crusade without a new miniature of Chaos’ main man, can you?

All shall be revealed in time I suppose, but for now mark you calendars as Chaos is beginning to surge to the fore of the hobby this holiday season!

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About the Author: Rob Baer

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Rob Baer

Job Title: Managing Editor

Founded Spikey Bits in 2009

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About Rob Baer: Founder, Publisher, & Managing Editor of Spikey Bits, the leading tabletop gaming news website focused on the hobby side of wargaming and miniatures.

Rob also co-founded and currently hosts the Long War Podcast, which has over 350 episodes and focuses on tabletop miniatures gaming, specializing in Warhammer 40k. and spent six years writing for Bell of Lost Souls. 

Every year, along with his co-hosts, he helps host the Long War 40k Doubles Tournament at Adepticon and the Long War 40k Doubles at Las Vegas Open, which attracts over 350 players from around the world.

Rob has won many Warhammer 40k Tournaments over the years, including multiple first-place finishes in Warhammer 40k Grand Tournaments over the years and even winning 1st place at the Adepticon 40k Team Tournament.

With over 30 years of experience in retail and distribution, Rob knows all the products and exactly which ones are the best. As a member of GAMA (Game Manufacturers Association), he advocates for gaming stores and manufacturers in these difficult times, always looking for the next big thing to feature for the miniatures hobby, helping everyone to provide the value consumers want.

While he’s played every edition of Warhammer 40k and Warhammer Fantasy (since 5th Edition) and has been hobbying on miniatures since the 1980s, Titans of all sizes will always be his favorite! It’s even rumored that his hobby vault rivals the Solemnance Galleries, containing rulebooks filled with lore from editions long past, ancient packs of black-bordered Magic Cards, and models made of both pewter and resin.