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.
Attention all worshipers of the dark powers, or venerators of the Emperor, Book Two of the Horus Hersey series from Forge World is set to release very shortly. Just like it predecessor, book one, this edition is sure to send heads spinning as it dives deep into the initial events of the conflict that took […]
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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. Quite possibly one of the funniest / most badass things I’ve seen on the […]
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Welcome to Armies on Parade; Army Showcase where I display (in hopefully good detail) the best of the all great looking armies I’ve featured from major tournaments all across the United States. If you click on the Army Showcase label you’ll be able to scroll through some great looking armies, all at once. It’s like you were at a major […]
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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 Forge World’s Latest Primarch, Logar the Urizen. So do […]
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Hey guys, Rage of Khorne here for a tutorial on one way you can paint white quickly and easily and to help me out is one of the new Tau Riptides.Lets get started. The Riptide I have chosen to use is modified a bit and for anyone who has built the model you can probably […]
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Guess what’s coming out next month, yet another digital supplement for a previously released codex. This time we have Sentinels of Terra, which from the cover looks to be primarily about the Imperial Fists chapter of Space Marines. It could however be about just about any chapter at this point as details are still forthcoming. […]
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Welcome to Armies on Parade; Army Showcase where I display (in hopefully good detail) the best of the all great looking armies I’ve featured from major tournaments all across the United States. If you click on the Army Showcase label you’ll be able to scroll through some great looking armies, all at once. It’s like you were at a major […]
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Welcome to 40k Flashback, where I dig deep for something cool that I have from back in the day. Which according to the comic Dane Cook was a Wednesday… You always hear the question: “How did you get into the hobby?”, and for me it was getting bored with assembling fighter jet models. I could never afford […]
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Welcome to Armies on Parade; Army Showcase where I display (in hopefully good detail) the best of the all great looking armies I’ve featured from major tournaments all across the United States. If you click on the Army Showcase label you’ll be able to scroll through some great looking armies, all at once. It’s like you were at a major […]
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Welcome to Picture of the Day, where I display a sweet pic of something amazing that I’ve seen around the tubes, or took myself 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. I’d say Gears of War is certainly […]
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Siege-masters rejoice, your chariot is awaits.Checkout the latest from Forge World a MKI Deimos Pattern “Heresy Era” Vindicator. Checkout that front weapon cowl, anyone reminded of a Thunderfire cannon there? Check it out in all its glory here.
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Wow look at this new incarnation of the venerable Stormraven chassis, presenting the Fire Raptor.Apparently its some sort of gunship variant of Heresy Era origins guessing from its styling. The rest I guess will be shrouded in mystery until its official release later this fall! Check it out in all its glory here.
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On a cool Virginia evening, 40k gunslinger Nick Rose rolled into town from Texas looking for a scrapping. The battle that ensued was over relatively fast, as once you get to a certain point with these armies the end result can be forecast with a bit of certainty. It was of course a good playtest […]
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While no one seems to be as excited for any of these as they were for Space Marines, there still seems to be quite the buzz going around for the new Dark Elf models, and the new Sisters of Battle redux codex that’s coming out next month. We also saw proof this week (via Faeit) […]
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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. Just further proof that Orks can loot just about anything…. Enjoy MBG
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Welcome to Armies on Parade; Army Showcase where I display (in hopefully good detail) the best of the all great looking armies I’ve featured from major tournaments all across the United States. If you click on the Army Showcase label you’ll be able to scroll through some great looking armies, all at once. It’s like you were at a major […]
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Welcome to a very special Army of One, where I display great looking painted models from reader submissions!Interested in showing off your work on Spikey Bits, and seeing your name in lights? We want those pics! 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 […]
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Welcome to 40k Flashback, where I dig deep for something cool that I have from back in the day. Which according to the comic Dane Cook was a Wednesday… You always hear the question: “How did you get into the hobby?”, and for me it was getting bored with assembling fighter jet models. I could never afford […]
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