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.
New Myrmidons are here, and this time its the Secutors! These guys look great, and once again Forge World has knocked it out of the part with the level of detail on these guys. Checkout all the info below, they go on sale March 31! The Myrmidon Secutors are ordained priests of the Cult Mechanicum […]
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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. Legos and Warhammer, two of my favorite things. -Enjoy […]
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Praise unto the Machine, the Knight walks!So is this the codex you’ve been waiting for? Are you planning on playing the mythical Army of Five (Titans)? Loyalist and Xenos players alike, are all looking to the new rules to see about upgrading their forces. But will these the new Knight be allowed in tournament play? […]
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Have you got yours yet? It seems like the blog-o-sphere was full of painted Imperial Knight models this week, but there are still a lot of people waiting on the Imperial Knights Codex to release. Personally I think it’s a great kit, in fact we’re almost sold out of our second shipment of Imperial Knights […]
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Checkout the newest Ad Mechanicus offering from Forge World, the Myrmidons! The Myrmidon Destructors are priests of the Mechanicum who specialise in the art of destruction with ranged weaponry and the embodiment of this within their own vastly augmented bodies.This complete resin set contains three Mechanicum Myrmidon Destructor models with a volkite Culverin, irradiation engine […]
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Don’t miss what happened last night on our live 40k webcast featuring all the fun stuff in the title, and answers to YOUR questions as well.Sometimes it gets crazy on air, and last night was no different. If you missed it, just click play on the video below! FTN mostly focuses on 40k, but again […]
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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. Checkout this sweet orky Lego creation (by […]
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Looks like some professors at MIT and Havard have made a discovery that could possibly lead to the production of Lightsabers and Power Weapons.Basically they found a way to “create” light molecules, that seems legitimate. From the article; To create their lightsaber molecules, or “photonic molecules” as they’re being called, Lukin and Vuletic had to […]
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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. Checkout this pretty cool retrofit for a Libraian Dreadnought (by unknown) -Enjoy […]
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Well another tournament has come and gone at FTW Games (the home of Spikey Bits), and here is the top finishers for our event.At the top is arguably one of the best players in 40k, followed by quite a few well know names around the tournament circuit as well. Once again Eldar seems to have […]
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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. Checkout this neat looking walker conversion. I’m assuming its for the […]
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Ten years ago I spent nearly a month painting my Iron Warriors army, and honestly it was mostly time spent just painting yellow. Fast forward to today, and there is so many painting aids that really it can take as little as a weekend to paint a 1850 or 2000 point army if you’re properly […]
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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. Checkout this neat Plague Ogryn conversion from Adepticon 2011! -MBG
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Welcome to 40k Flashback, where I dig deep for something cool that I have or have seen from back in the day. Which according to the comic Dane Cook was a Wednesday…Checkout this awesome painted old plastic Land Raider, that’s been upgraded with new Forge World parts and a new crew! (by unknown) -MBG
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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. Pretty good cosplay of everyone’s favorite Imperial […]
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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. Checkout this neat Chaos Storm Eagle (roc pattern?) conversion by Matt […]
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Pesky flyers got you down? Try fielding a few of these to make them go away! This little guy is a fun little kit that Forge World put our a few years ago, and has seen a new life now defending armies against flyers. The neat part is that the turret itself will fit into […]
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Checkout this scratch build Warlord Titan from our recent Horus Heresy Weekender at FTW Games.Nate aka Warjammy from the 30k Heresy boards brought this monstrosity with him for the traitors final push on the loyalists holding out on Istvaan III. Nate and his crew raided everything from their bits boxes to the toy aisle at Wal-Mart […]
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