Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-38362264-20190205192003/@comment-24743922-20190206020508

As Flat said, the Maverick, when released, was like the Colt Single Action Army. Imagine a world where everything either was single-shot or had a multi-shot mechanism, but incredibly unreliable, hard to maintain and/or expensive. That goes for real firearms and also for Nerf- this is where we lived.

Until the Mav Rev-6 was released.

It was inefficient. Reverse plunger, top-priming, prone to jamming. But it started a revolution. It was one of the first of the "let's mimic real firearms" style of blasters that composed basically the whole N-Strike line, and which made people pay attention at Nerfing. Jetcell had a Longshot as a first blaster, I had a Nite Finder, but most people had a Maverick.

And even though, the Mav wasn't a flagship blaster. The Longshot was, then the Vulcan, then the Raider, then the Longstrike... You get me. No way the Strongarm was the flagship blaster of the line when released.

Ok, but now, seems like someone has to ask the important questions:

Was the Barricade a flagship while on N-Strike? It was the first flywheel-powered blaster, and our modding kinda created a Stryfe YEARS BEFORE the Stryfe. With the clip mod, of course. Some people even say Hasbro took inspiration on it.

No way the Stockade was its year's flagship, but what about the Barricade?