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Rob Baer - Spikey Bits Author

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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.

Here at Spikey Bits, we keep trying to come up with more fun and, what we hope are, exciting ways for you to save on your gaming needs. We’ll try to feature a new sale every week on some of the top names out there in gaming, just to give you a chance to try out […]

Read More | June 25th, 2025

Here Lizard, Lizard, Lizard. If the White Dwarf was a Taco Bell Chihuahua, that is what it would sound like I think .  As you’ve probably heard by now, Warhammer Fantasy’s Lizardmen are getting an slew of new releases from a new Army Book to a Plastic Carnosaur! Being a closeted fan of Warhammer Fantasy Battles, […]

Read More | July 30th, 2013

Johnathan Ho entered this amazingly done conversion for our FREE Wraithknight contest, and while he didn’t win this one, he did win the last one we did!After a little coaxing (not much) Johnathan sent over this article on how he made his “Justicar Weiss”. Now if we can just get him to share more models […]

Read More | July 30th, 2013

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. Looks pretty cool. I don’t remember […]

Read More | July 28th, 2013

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 my Grey Knights Custom Techmarine! -Enjoy MBG

Read More | July 27th, 2013

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. Not sure if edible… -Enjoy MBG

Read More | July 25th, 2013

Larry over on Bell of Lost Souls posted this up a little while ago, and it hit a strong nerve with me as I read it.   Unfortunately I don’t think it got a lot of reads because everyone seemed to be on vacation that week, so I wanted to take it for a spin […]

Read More | July 24th, 2013

FTW Games (The home of Spikey Bits) will be hosting a 40k Rogue Trader Tournament Saturday July 27th at 10am. $100 minimum in store credit for prize support So regardless of how many people show up, the prize will be at least $100 split among the four prize winners! Of course if more that 10 […]

Read More | June 25th, 2025

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. Still begs the question of which […]

Read More | July 23rd, 2013

Checkout the inside scoop on Warzone: Pandorax, that Apocalypse supplement that was only included with the Limited “Collectors Edition”. I happened to pick up the collectors edition when Apocalypse came out, and man I really love this thing. It has some pretty useful aids for playing games of Apocalypse that will really take the burden […]

Read More | July 22nd, 2013

Welcome to Armies on Parade, where I display (in hopefully good detail) some great looking armies from major tournaments all across the United States. If you click on the Armies on Parade label you’ll be able to scroll through some great looking armies, all at once. It’s like you were at a major event yourself, all from the comfort […]

Read More | July 21st, 2013

Well this week has been full of all sorts of leaks and we even got a new surprise codex supplement in the form of Tau: Farsight book!Word on the street is more Space Marine rumors this week, as kits have been spotted and been leaked already. Faeit has the report on all the new Templar […]

Read More | July 21st, 2013

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. GOTCHA! -Enjoy MBG

Read More | July 20th, 2013

Lots of new rumors are swirling around the internets as of late on more 40k factions and expansions.Who knows whats what for sure, but a lot of it makes for a great read. Personally I cant wait for some concrete Space Marine or Tyranid release news. Have you seen the special datasheets that come with […]

Read More | June 25th, 2025

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 Raging Asian’s Ascendant Iron Warriors Daemon Prince. Click the […]

Read More | June 25th, 2025

The wait is over, the Apocalypse is NOW! The new Apocalypse release ends five years of waiting on new rules and heck we even got some new models out of it to boot! I had chance to really dig into the Apocalypse book over the weekend, and get to know the new slightly more complicated […]

Read More | July 15th, 2013

Bonus Episode Four is here, download it now! This episode features an interview with Malifaux’s Mack Martin who discusses the phase two Beta for the upcoming Malifaux reboot.Forge the Narrative is podcast about gaming, and the nerdom that surrounds it. Each episode will be about an hour long. This ideally gives you something neat to listen to […]

Read More | April 28th, 2024