Stop the presses. Come see what is going on with the venerable F.A.T. Mat brand partnership between Frontline Games and Tablewar!
If you love the F.A.T. Mat line of gaming mats that started the whole tabletop mat craze worldwide, you may not want to miss this big news about the brand:
Source Frontline Gaming:
After three years of working together on the F.A.T. Mat, Frontline Gaming and Tablewar are parting ways.The partnership has been great, and the Frontline Gaming family wishes their friends at Tablewar all the best as they continue on with the F.A.T. Mat brand. We give a heartfelt thanks to all of our customers for making the past three years with the F.A.T. Mat a success.Frontline Gaming has acquired the means to manufacture an entirely new line of gaming mats here in the United States of America at our new facility in San Diego, California. These are exciting times as the ability to manufacture our product domestically gives us unprecedented flexibility in design options and superior quality control, ensuring that each mat we sell is just what our customers are looking for. Your new gaming mat will be made by us, your fellow gamers! The possibilities are endless with these new tools and we look forward to a bright future in game mat design. Sign up for our newsletter to stay informed as to when these new mats will be available and what will be possible manufacturing here in the good old US of A!
All good things… After just over 3-years of an amazing partnership, TABLEWAR™ and Frontline Gaming will be going their separate ways. While this split was unexpected, TABLEWAR™ , as the creator of The F.A.T. Mat, is proud to announce that we will continue to bring our popular gaming mats to the gaming community. The F.A.T. Mats are immediately available for sale directly at www.tablewar.com (and www.tablewar.uk). TABLEWAR™ will be introducing new designs in the coming months while continue to support the gaming mat designs you know you love; all to the high-quality standard our customers have grown to expect. We would like to sincerely thank Frontline Gaming for this amazing partnership as our sales and marketing partners for The F.A.T. Mats and wish them well in the future. We at TABLEWAR™ would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our wonderful customers and retailers for helping to make The F.A.T. Mat the industry leading gaming surface.
TABLEWAR™ is also the developer of the Tower-Case line of modular storage and transport cases as well as the upcoming MacroMat, a series of specially designed photography backdrops perfect for use in photographing collectibles, hobby miniatures, and small works of art.
More as we know it folks, it looks like yet another contender is about to throw their hat into the ring of the Tabletop mat market!.
About the Author: Rob Baer
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 the Las Vegas Open, each of which attracts thousands of 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 2011 Adepticon 40k Team Tournament. He was even featured for his painting in issue #304 of Games Workshop’s White Dwarf Magazine.
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.
