D-Day

Theme and Design

Lots of Noise, Guns, Bombs and Tanks In This Wild Wartime Slot

If you enjoyed the design style of NLC’s Das X-Boot and Pearl Harbour then you’ll love how D Day looks. It has the same dark, claustrophobic feel and the gameplay is interspersed with lots of combat events like Stuka bombers and Panza tanks randomly appearing over the reels to trigger features. The backdrop is the war table in a bunker somewhere where two officers discuss strategy whilst peering over a map, all under a blood red light. It’s what NLC do best, combining terrific atmosphere around dark themes.

RTP and Variance

There are FOUR available RTP settings for this game – 96.12%, 94.12%, 92.12% and 87.10%. Make sure your casino is running the game at the optimum RTP setting by hitting the hamburger menu button to the bottom left of the screen then scrolling through until you see RTP. Most slot sites in the UK run NLC games at 94% or higher. I have found that MrQ from Lindar Media and Barz Casino from White Hat Gaming consistently choose the top RTP so I recommend playing there.

The volatility level here is described as EXTREME by NLC so you know what to expect. That is also reflected in the huge 55,555x max win. It will be a tough play, but crazy combinations of wild multipliers across the reels can potentially trigger some huge payouts.

Maximum Win

The top payout in D Day slot is 55,555x which is excellent, even for a Nolimit City slot which boast some of the highest max wins found anywhere. NLC have named this Mission Accomplished. If a spin sequence triggers a win greater than this number then the payout is rounded down and the game round ends.

Symbols and Paytable

The reel set up in Day is slightly unusual with 5 reels with a 3-4-5-4-3 christmas tree row configuration.  It is a win ways set up so you only need to land identical symbols on adjacent reels, regardless of the row, from left to right, starting at the left most reel, to score a win.

Symbol values are small, which is not uncommon for NLC slots, but there are 750 win ways to start before we even get into splits, plus lots of features that add wilds to the grid to increase the odds of win ways.

Low payers are the solidiers – Commando, Foot Soldier, Anti-Air and Fighter Pilot. These are valued at from 0.1x for 3 Commandos up to 0.45x for 5 Fighter Pilots. The premiums are the Panzer, Bomber, Stuka and Howitzer, valued at from 0.2x for 3 Panzers up to 2x for 5 Howitzers.

There are also Wilds that substitute for all pay symbols to complete win ways but have no pay value of their own.

Features and Gameplay

In D Day there are five features that trigger at random in the base game and three free spins rounds available if you land enough scatters.  Here is how that all works.

Atomic Wild

These random wilds are powerful symbols that appear at any time in this game with a multiplier value of 10x, 20x, 30x, 50x or 100x. If the position chosen for the wild is already taken, then a 1x is added to the multiplier.

This one always triggers before any other feature.

Bomber

Bombers are powerful too. When their feature triggers, then between 2 and 5 bomber planes will appear, turning all the symbols on the reel they appear on into wilds. Any wilds already showing on a reel will have a 1x multiplier added to them.

But watch out for the anti-air symbol which will block the bombers from adding wilds below their position.

Stuka

Stukas will zip over the reels in a diagonal direction from left to right or right to left, splitting all pay symbols they pass over and doubling their size.

You can have up to SEVEN Stukas flying over on one spin.

Panzer

When the Panzer feature triggers then these tanks appear on between 2 and 5 rows, with one tank per row. They transform all low paying symbols, except for the foot soldiers, into Wilds.

And once again, where a wild already exists on a row, then it will have a 1x multiplier added to it.

Howitzers

Watch out for these bombs which will turn between 1 and 7 pay symbols into wilds when the feature is triggered. Commandos and wilds are not included.

NOTE: These features trigger at random but you can also trigger one by landing 2 Scatters at any point in the game. If one of those scatters lands on the 5^th reel, then the Atomic Wild feature is chosen.

THREE Free Spins Rounds

NOTE: The average number of spins required to trigger the free spins round is 206.

There are no less than THREE free spins round, each with a progressively better configuration.

Neptune Free Spins – 3 scatters are required to unlock Neptune free spins. When it starts, there is a pick me game where you 2 out of the 5 features are revealed. These are GUARANTEED to trigger at least once during your spins.

NOTE: If one of your triggering scatters landed on reel 5 then it Atomic Wild is activated for the Neptune spins and you only get ONE pick.

Invasion Free Spins – 4 scatters are required to unlock Invasion free spins. This time, you get 3 picks and 3 of the 5 features are GUARANTEED to trigger at least once during the round.

NOTE: If one of your triggering scatters landed on reel 5 then it Atomic Wild is activated for the Neptune spins and you only get TWO picks.

Overlord Free Spins – 5 scatters are required to unlock Overlord free spins. In this instance, you will get 3 picks to reveal features that are GUARANTEED to trigger at least once during the round. And the Atomic Wilds is automatically added into the mix.