I have been looking for a decent 4WD RC for about 3 months, and I finally found the Barrage. After chatting with Steven on the help site, I bought one. It arrived in 3 days, everything I needed (except 4 AA batteries) was included, and after a worrisome period of being unable to locate the vehicles on-off switch (it had worked itself out of it's mount, easy press fit to re-install) I got the vehicle activated and familiarized myself with it. My nephews 8th B Day bash with a 'monster truck' theme and a very nice home-built track was it's first real test, I ran the Barrage for about 2 &1/2 hours, and everyone was quite impressed by it's quality, power and unstoppable 4WD.The best part is it has a variable speed option, so it doesn't go faster than I can react to! I've had it out in the snow and dirt, and it does great! For the price, you can't beat it!

Hey folks,

If you want a very good quality crawler at a very good price, this Barrage is the one to buy. At $180, the only way it can be beat is if you have a Horizon discount coupon to knock off another 10%. Yes, the steering servo is the weak link on the Barrage, but everything else works like a charm for those who are using it for crawling rather than destructive race jumping. It is a crawler, not a destructive racer. Horizon will replace a burned out steering servo, but you can also buy inexpensive replacement servos for less than $15 which have far more torque and will possibly last for years. So do not let the problem with the original servo stop you from getting this great crawler.

It comes with lights fore and aft, good tires, an NiMH battery which will run for well over an hour when crawling over rocks, and the body is quite decent in its looks. The Barrage actually looks like a realistic trail vehicle rather than a crazy Star Wars prop. It is billed as a 1/12 scale size, but it seems to be very close to 1/10 scale size, and it really works well for me both inside my house (going under furniture) as well as climbing my dirt mounds in the back yard and my rock garden.

Many folks buy the Barrage to do all sorts of modifications one can imagine. That is fine for those who want to do that, but if you want to keep things simple, the Barrage is almost perfect right out of the box. As noted earlier, the original steering servo is most likely going to need replaced, but that is probably the only thing that will go bad. Replace the servo and it will run and run. I suggest buying a serious battery charger for this or any electric powered vehicle or plane these days. The charger which comes with it will take eight or nine hours to charge fully. With my Thunder Power charger set on a low rate charge, my battery can be charged in not much more than an hour. If you want more run time, I suggest getting a couple of 2200 mAh LiPo batteries. I bought two LiPo batteries, but the original 900 mAh NiMH battery will run me well more than an hour, and that really suits my needs.

Go to YouTube and search for Barrage videos, and you will find some really great trail crawling by this Barrage. You simply cannot get more value for your money.

Best wishes,
Dave Wile

Well built. Easy setup. Lights are a plus for night time crawling. Not much stops my Barrage, water, rocks and small brush are tackled with ease. Very good run time, over 30 minutes with the included battery. Over an hour with a 2000ma 2 cell LiPo. Very pleased with this truck!

A very durable little crawler with a lot of capability. Only one complaint is the steering servo is garbage. All the used Barrages that I have seen listed on ebay are selling with a non working steering servo. This tells me it was not just my Barrage that had this problem but it was a bad batch of servos. The upside to this, Horizon Hobby is sending out a new servo free of charge. The downside, it is on backorder. Long story short, I put in an upgraded steering servo. This truck would have gotten 5 stars across the board from me had it not been for this problem. As it is I can only give it 4 stars for quality (which it deserves if not more) and 5 stars for fun, value, and overall rating. I will definitely be buying another.

Never really gave ECX much thought. After looking at the Barrage I figured I'd give it a try. To my surprise I'm really kind of impressed with it. Looking forward to putting my twist on the looks and doing some customizing under the hood so to speak.