Rob Baer
Job Title: Managing Editor
Founded Spikey Bits in 2009
Socials: Rob Baer on Facebook and @catdaddymbg on X
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 is a panelist on the weekly Long War Podcast, which has over 500 episodes and focuses on tabletop miniatures gaming, specializing in Warhammer 40k, and spent six years writing for Bell of Lost Souls.
Every year, he and his co-hosts help host the Long War 40k Doubles Tournament at Adepticon and the Long War 40k Doubles at the Las Vegas Open, both of which attract thousands of players from around the world.
Rob has also won many Warhammer 40k Tournaments over the years, including multiple first-place finishes in Warhammer 40k Grand Tournaments 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. He also advises major hedge funds on stocks like Games Workshop and Asmodee.
He is always looking for the next big thing to feature for the miniatures hobby, helping everyone 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.
Welcome to Picture of the Day, where we display a sweet pic of something amazing that we’ve seen around the tubes, or took at an event!If you click on the Picture of the Day label you’ll be able to scroll through some great Warhammer related images, all at once.C’mon, grab your friends. We’ll go to very distant lands… […]
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Welcome back for part two of our 40k Boot Camp series on the new Psychic Phase! If there is one single thing about seventh edition that’s completely different most people agree psychic phase (and it quite possibly become the biggest focus for angst here soon)! So I figured I’d kick off the Spikey Bits series […]
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Welcome to Conversion Corner, where we display great looking converted and Work In Progress (WIP) models from stuff we’ve done or amazing figures we’ve seen around.If you click on the Conversion Corner label you’ll be able to scroll through some great looking conversions and more, all at once. Rolling out is the awesomely painted Taurox from Templars Crusade with […]
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Black Library just posted up all the new 7th Edition FAQ’s for 40k. The download all button is very handy. Prepare for another round of intense rules processing! http://www.blacklibrary.com/faqs-and-errata.html
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Welcome to Army of One, where I display a great looking painted model from stuff I’ve done or amazing figures I’ve seen around. If you click on the Army of One label you’ll be able to scroll through some great looking figures, all at once. Move over Doctor Octopus, Matt Morton’s Tzeetch Warpsmith Conversion’s tentacles totally rocks socks. –Enjoy […]
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Welcome to Conversion Corner, where we display great looking converted and Work In Progress (WIP) models from stuff we’ve done or amazing figures we’ve seen around.If you click on the Conversion Corner label you’ll be able to scroll through some great looking conversions and more, all at once. From the depths of the universal sea comes this shark marine […]
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Checkout all these great shots of the newest Primarch miniature to spring to life, Mortarion! The Horus Heresy weekender was this weekend, and the internets is buzzing with all sorts of pics and coverage of the event. These ones come from Recalcitrant Daze, so be sure to head over there for even more coverage from […]
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Checkout all these great shots of the next Primarch miniature Vulkan! The Horus Heresy weekender was this weekend, and the internets is buzzing with all sorts of pics and coverage of the event. These pictures come from Battle Bunnies, and Recalcitrant Daze so be sure to head over there for even more coverage from the event! Hopefully […]
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Welcome to Army of One, where I display a great looking painted model from stuff I’ve done or amazing figures I’ve seen around. If you click on the Army of One label you’ll be able to scroll through some great looking figures, all at once. Today we take a look at a hulk of a machine thanks to the […]
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Along with the Space Crusade, Battlemasters (from the makers of Hero Quest) was the Milton Bradley’s attempt to mainstream tabletop gaming. The miniatures we’re of course by Games Workshop/ Citadel Miniatures. If you listen to the podcast you’ve probably heard how we used to buy multiple sets of this kit to make whole Fantasy armies, […]
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We just got this HOT R’Varna battlesuit spread in the Spikey bits inbox last week and had to share it! Painted and converted by Skyler Hoeft, I think this R’varna is a very inspiring piece indeed! Take it away, Skyler… I felt that the R’varna really needed that shield. It has the same shield generator […]
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Well the defenders of Athel Loren are back, and the wait may have been worth it as this book’s awesome!Checking in at nearly 100 pages, the new edition of the Wood Elf book introduces a few new models and tweeks the heck out of the rest. Format wise the book is about the same as […]
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Hey Everyone, check out the top eight players for last week’s 40K tournament! 40K TOP 8 1st place – Kenny Boucher Librarian, sm bike Librarian, sm bike Command squad, meltagun x4, standard of devastation,Apothecary Scout Squad, x5 sniper rifle, x5 shotgun Tactical squad x10 Land Raider Crusader x3 Knight Titan(battle Cannon) 2nd place – Ben […]
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Well the cat is out of the bag now, and this month Fantasy and 40k players both got something they wanted.This months White Dwarf came with a centerfold poster with the ominous date of 5/24/2014 printed on it, which may or may not indicate a new edition/ update to Warhammer 40k. It also contained a […]
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MBG and Special “Fantasy Guest Expert” Knight 12 go over key new Wood Elves units,wargear and tactics! The new Wood Elves army book seems to be the best of both the High Elves and Dark Elves books when done “right” and definitely stacks up well against Chaos to boot! Plus there seems to be a […]
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Well the defenders of Athel Loren are back, and the wait may have been worth it as this book’s awesome!Checking in at nearly 100 pages, the new edition of the Wood Elf book introduces a few new models and tweeks the heck out of the rest. Format wise the book is about the same as […]
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Well the cat is out of the bag now, and this month Fantasy and 40k players both got something they wanted.This months White Dwarf came with a centerfold poster with the ominous date of 5/24/2014 printed on it, which may or may not indicate a new edition/ update to Warhammer 40k. It also contained a […]
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Aloha all ye bored-on-the-Internet! I’m Whitestagg and I have the Zeus-infuriating hubris to think my words might entertain you. When not angering the Gods I am an old hat gamer (been in the GW bog since ’98) who currently resides in the table top wargaming wasteland that is greater metropolitan Kailua-Kona.Today I’d like to break down how […]
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