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 350 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 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 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.
They are coming! Checkout my review of the new content rich White Dwarf with the advance order Necrons!I just finished up reading the new White Dwarf and I have to admit I’m pretty impressed with the “new” format. I like the revised painting guides using the new citadel paints, and am so glad they have […]
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FTW Games (the home of Spikey Bits) will be hosting the “Virginia Primaries”on Saturday May 19th at 10am.The “Virginia Primaries” is an 40K Invitational Qualifier for the Nova Open. If we get 32 players the top two players will qualify for two spots at the Nova Open Invitational in Aug 30-Sept 2, 2012 (Labor Day […]
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Welcome to a new segment here on Spikey Bits called War Torn. This is where I try to capture a perhaps pivotal moment in a battle, or a frame that shows an ongoing conflict from the game we love. If you click on the War Torn label you’ll be able to scroll through some hopefully amazing battles […]
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Welcome to Flashback Fridays, 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 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 one of my old “Spartan” Tactical […]
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Well the last big 40k event of the weekend (unless you made the top 16 in the Championships) is the Gladiator Tournament.This is a larger scale, super heavy friendly (< 4 structure points) event, that scales down Apocalypse and puts it on the 4×6! Checkout the spread of armies from this year’s event- I’ll try […]
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Today’s unboxing is on the new Reinforced Armor kit for the Rhino / Predator. A few months ago, around Christmas I think, Forge World put out this kit and no one really seemed to say much about it, until now. You may remember the old extra armor kits they had done before, which from what […]
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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 sweet converted Chaos 40k Scale […]
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Well Adepticon 2012 is over, and I’m finally back and able to write again. Today I have for you a sample of the armies from the Team Tournament event! On the home front, my team did not repeat this year, as our Grey Knight paladins broke and ran twice on us. It’s a tough price […]
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FTW Games (the home of Spikey Bits) will be hosting the “Virginia Primaries”on Saturday May 19th at 10am.The “Virginia Primaries” is an 40K Invitational Qualifier for the Nova Open. If we get 32 players the top two players will qualify for two spots at the Nova Open Invitational in Aug 30-Sept 2, 2012 (Labor Day […]
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Here’s some coverage of the vendor hall at Adepticon 2012! Don’t Forget! If you are thinking about getting Forge World here at Adepticon next year you may want to get the VIG (very important gamer) badge. Not only does it cut your per-registration time down, you also get into the vendor hall early to get […]
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Well I managed to get out of the Spikey Bits vendor booth, and get some coverage for you of the 40k Championships on Friday.If you happen to be following a particular “professional” player, here’s how some of them made out day one. Paul Murphy 4-0 In top 16 Playoff Nick “Darkwyhnn” Rose 3-1 Top 16 […]
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Checkout my unboxing of the new Empire War Altar!I cracked open all the new Empire kits recently and did video unboxings on them for all to see! I also filmed a nifty review of the New Citadel Paint Guide as well. You can check them out from their embedded links, or scroll though my YouTube […]
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I managed to snap a few photos of day one here at Adepticon 2012. Today is the 40k Championships which kicked off around 10:00 AM local time. Forge World is on hand with a huge booth of goodies. Unfortunately they did not have any Storm Eagles on hand for sale. They did however have limited […]
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Welcome to Flashback Fridays, 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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Checkout my Unboxing of the newest Empire kit for Warhammer Fantasy, Karl Franz on Griffon.I cracked open all the new Empire kits recently and did video unboxings on them for all to see! I also filmed a nifty review of the New Citadel Paint Guide as well. You can check them out from their embedded […]
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So I went ahead and ordered one of these bad boys from Forge World, because of it’s new rules in Imperial Armor Apocalypse Second Edition making it legal for 40k.And because it’s now “40k Legal” I’m adding it to my Mechanicus themed Blood Angels (Iron Angels) that I made awhile back. Forge World being legal […]
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We’re here on site with some shots of the 40k hall, the vendor area and more!I shot a little video of the 40k side of things a few minutes ago. Fantasy and other Indy games are in other ball rooms, and the 40k Champ finals are in a room attached to this one. The light […]
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