Cube Warfare: The Big Guns

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We started off with two relatively small guns. We moved on to slightly larger and more intimidating rifles. Now it's time to focus on the big boys of foam warfare. These are the heavy weapons, the squad machine guns and bazookas of cubicle domination. The Nerf Vulcan EBF-25 and Air Zone Punisher offer fully automatic spray-and-pray action, while the Nerf Titan (or Nerf N-Strike Unity System) offers a single huge missile.

While these stand as some of the most expensive foam guns at $40-50 each, they offer great utility and an undeniable "awesome" factor you don't get with most smaller weapons. The machine guns offer more reliable and powerful automatic fire than the Nerf Raider, while the Titan packs a bigger punch than the Longshot.

Nerf Vulcan

This baby is a belt-fed, fully-automatic Nerf machine gun, and it's as awesome as it sounds. It runs on 6 D batteries to crank out Nerf darts at a rate of up to 3 rounds per second. The belt holds 25 darts, and while you can't connect belts to each other without some clever glue-and-screw modifications, you can buy extra belts so you can keep shooting without the tedious process of individually reloading each belt.

You can fire the gun in one of three ways. First, you can hold it like a heavy rifle, using the underhanded grip. Second, you can hold the gun like the Heavy's minigun, using the overhand grip. Second, you can set up the included mini-tripod and use it as a mounted machine gun. Yes, this gun comes with a tripod so you can treat it like a mounted weapon. The tripod only lifts the gun about three inches off the ground and it's not particularly stable, but if you have the desk or table space for it, it's pretty great to have.

If you're willing to risk burning out the Vulcan's motor, you can try this mod to crank up the firing rate to 500 rounds per minute (over 8 darts per second). The makers of Mana Energy Potion replaced the Vulcan's 6 D batteries with a pair of 9-volt RC car battery packs, and added a few other great-looking modifications to the gun. Of course, Hasbro doesn't recommend this sort of thing, and you probably won't be able to get a replacement from them if you make it explode.

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