Shield

The Blast Shield, the first Nerf detachable shield.

A shield is a blaster accessory. Shields can help to block water, discs, missiles or darts.

Details

Nerf and Super Soaker shields are typically plastic pieces that can be attached to the blaster through the usage of a tactical rail. This gives shields the ability to be used on a wide variety of blasters, although their size may prevent them from working on certain blasters. This problem most notably affects the Lightningstorm shield, which has part of it hanging down to the sides, which causes some wide blasters to not be compatible with it.

Depending on the rules set, shields may or may not be allowed to be used during Nerf wars. To avoid problems, ask the host of the war whether shields are allowed or not. In wars where a blaster hit counts as a tag, shields can be a major detriment since they make for an easy target.

History

The first Nerf tactical shield was the N-Strike Blast Shield, which was released with the Stampede ECS in 2010.

Shields

Tactical rail-compatible

	Name	Year released
	Blast Shield	2010
	Hydro Cannon shield	2011
	Lightningstorm shield	2012
	Blast Shield	2015
	Storage Shield	2017
	Nitron shield	Cancelled
	Storm Shield	Cancelled

Smart Stick Shields

The Farshot equipped with its Smart Stick Shields.

Main article: Smart Stick Shield

Smart Stick Shields are only compatible with Mattel BOOMco. blasters. Compatible with Smart Stick Darts, they allow BOOMco. ammunition (the aforementioned darts and Smart Stick Rounds) to stick to their surfaces.

Other shields

	Name	Year released
	Stonewall Shield & Sword	2010
	Assault Bunker	2012
	Battle Shield	2012

Trivia

• The Manta Ray is large enough to act as a shield; it is the only Nerf blaster advertised as being able to be used as a shield.
• Original packaging for the Vortex Pyragon showed off a Nitron with a shield instead of a Centerfire Tech Electronic Scope. Unfortunately, the re-release and shield were cancelled.
• The cancelled Tek Strike series featured its own special shield that would have tracked the amount of times it was hit with special darts.