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 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. How would you caption this? Here, I’ll go […]
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Checkout this SWEET tutorial from IDIC Beer on how to paint Fire Dragons in the amazing (but very hard to do), Orange and Yellow color scheme. Courtesy of IDIC Beer! Nick speaking, I know a lot of people are not fans of how GW paint their Fire Dragons, and yes, they are rather bright, but personally […]
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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. This is how we get ants. -Enjoy MBG […]
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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. Even in the far future, the princess […]
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Did you buy the New “Iyanden” Codex Supplement? I did, and I am not happy with it at all. This whole 110 page book only contains 2 pages of must have rules for 40k (written by Mat Ward). It has a lot of other rules (for Cities of Death, and other versions of the game […]
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The same week that Games Workshop is summoned to court for the Chapterhouse case, and we have a very interesting yearly price adjustment. Perhaps most puzzling of all is the fact that there is a very mysterious super early leak of the new Apocalypse July releases (Which according to GW was all Faeit 212’s fault […]
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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. How would you caption this? Here, I’ll go first: […]
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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. […]
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“One hundred and seventy-five years into the future Humanity has managed to survive despite itself. The human race has reached the stars. Travelling through worm-holes, enormous commercial ships, run by the international community, known as Circulars, jump from one star system to another.Circulars are controlled by O-12, an international organism that is the second generation […]
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We’re almost there! Here is an encore post of our new White Dwarf review from earlier in the week, featuring ELDAR! As you’ve probably heard, Eldar are on the way. So being an Eldar player when the new June 2013 issue of White Dwarf came out, I rushed to read the magazine cover to cover.The issue definitely seemed to showcase […]
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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 […]
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Kabuki Miniatures just left this article on the new box art for a great looking 28mm sci-fi figure, Patton-X.This model would work with a ton of game ranges from Infinity to Warhammer 40k, I mean who wouldn’t want Patton to lead their army into battle!Checkout the rest of the Kabuki Line from conversion bits, to the Knights […]
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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. Hmmm they may be onto something […]
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If you haven’t checked out this ground breaking model from DreamForge Games, you really should! Arguably the first “affordable” large scale plastic tabletop miniature, the Leviathan Crusader, can be used in a ton of different games, most notably as a “Titan”. DFG is a relative newcomer to the plastic scene, and if their designs are any indication, then they are […]
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Well it looks like the rumors are flying faster than we can read them. Eldar are within days of arrival so we’re at the pinnacle of rumor mongering it seems. However I don’t think it a bad thing per se. I’m down to figure our anything early I guess, so I can so even I […]
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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. How would you caption this? -Enjoy MBG
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Crazy Dave from No Turtles Allowed posted up his version of what he envisions as a “competitive” Tau army list. I have to admit that I’ve played against a variant of this list, and well it takes some getting used to when it comes to battling against it. The framework for the list he lays down below […]
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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. Can you name them all? -Enjoy […]
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