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.
It’s been a while since we’ve had a Monthly Giveaway around these parts. Time to give everyone a reason to break out the files, clippers, drills and all your pent up aggression – it’s Build a Wreck time! This challenge is sponsored by us, and Bell of Lost Souls and it’s a pretty cool diversion […]
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Welcome to the new segment here on Spikey Bits called 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 […]
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Welcome to a another guest post by Togashi Shinkaze. You can catch him lurking about over at Laughter of the Thirsting Gods talking about “metas” and “fun 40k”. Worth a read!I built the list below specifically to play at Nova. I wouldn’t really play it at any other tournament that I know of. I thought it […]
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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 […]
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Hey guys! Instead of writing actual content that would be fun and useful to the majority of readers I just wanted to get on here and write a bit of satire about some things swirling around the interwebs yesterday. Remember kids this is only satire, and I don’t even believe half of it (except the […]
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Welcome to the new segment here on Spikey Bits called 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 […]
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Over the weekend we had a little painting competition here at Spikey Bits central (namely FTW Games in Richmond Virginia), for the staff. We couldn’t enter the public one last month, so we came up with our own to be fair to all our wonderful customers! Now we need you help to sort out the winner according to the […]
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Welcome to the new segment here on Spikey Bits called 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 […]
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Welcome to a Friday guest post by Togashi Shinkaze. You can catch him lurking about over at Laughter of the Thirsting Gods talking about “metas” and “fun 40k”. Worth a read! Well it was alot of fun hanging out and talking smack on thursday night. At this point I have seen MBG wax Jawaballs in a […]
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Welcome to the new segment here on Spikey Bits called 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 […]
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The first Mega Deff Kopta was built for Warboss Ribkracker by Big Mek Gigawright. Besides showing an affinity for both warbikes and flyers, Gigawright spent hours and hours tinkering for new ways to get da boyz into the battle the fastest.After battling Air Assault Imperial Guard (da ones who jump out da jet fightas) in the Tendias Forgeworld, Gigawright had […]
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Check out this work in progress Chaos Thousand Sons Rhino by Jkin. If you missed his sweet Daemon Prince conversion recently do yourself a favor and check it out! Back to his new work, this puppy has got it all! This M41 Chaos Rhino comes standard with Spikey Bits, chains of doom, and a slight […]
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Welcome to the new segment here on Spikey Bits called 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 […]
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Wow what a week for all of us on the East Coast! First was an Earthquake of all things, about 30 miles from Spikey Bits Central, then of course a hurricane skirted up the coast, dumping a ton of rain and knocking out power all over the place. Somewhere in middle of all that Nova […]
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Welcome back! Today I have a little lead into the Nova Open, happening this weekend, and a feature on one of the lists I am considering running in the Invitational. Today I’ll be playing in the Nova Open Invitational, and I’m thinking about playing Master Shakes’ Orkquisition Grey Knights. I’ve been featuring a few of his conversions […]
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So here is the finished product from last week, a Daemon Prince of Tzeentch Diorama. My buddy Jkin spent the good part of a few weeks converting up both the base, and the model itself.They are pretty much all scratch built with a ton a green stuff. I really dig the drippy blood effect, and […]
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Recently I had a chance to bust out my Looted Guard and get some quality pictures (and video) of the army. I have no clue why it took so long to record them in a glorious fashion, but hey sometimes things are just worth the wait I suppose.You can click on the Looted Guard or […]
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Well here it is in all its orky glory, Da DeffKnight! This guy is part of a sweet “counts as” Grey Knight Orkquisition army that my buddy Master Shake is converting and painting up. Master Shake chose to paint up da DeffKnight in a triad of Red’s, (shaded like my blue Orks) over a basecoat […]
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