Napoleon Megaways

Theme and Design

Blueprint Gaming have done their best to re-create the drama of the Napoleonic battleground here with an epic orchestral soundtrack, intermittent canon fire, smoke drifting across the backdrop and slick illustrations of pistols, soldiers and warships. It’s not a had effort if a little simplistic by the standards of modern slots.

RTP and Variance

Napoleon Megaways has 2 available RTP rates for casino operators to choose from. They are 95.49% and 92%. Whilst there is not much wrong with a 95.49% RTP, you should avoid this game at the lower rate of 92%. You can check the RTP wherever you play by hitting the little hamburger icon in the bottom left of the screen then scrolling down until you see Return to Player displayed.

I recommend playing at MrQ from Lindar Media where the policy is to always run slots at the maximum available RTP rates.

This is rated as a high variance slot so expect an uneven win distribution. It can burn you balance fast.

Maximum Win

Reflecting that high volatility and like many Blueprint Gaming slots in this category, Napoleon Megaways has a high max win of 50,000x. That puts it up there with some of the highest paying slots from this studio which we have listed here.

Symbols and Paytable

Napoleon Megaways is a Megaways-lite in the sense that it has six reels but each displays from 2 to 5 symbols so you get up to 15,625 win ways per spin (5x5x5x5x5x5) rather than the usual 117,649. Remember, this is a win ways format so you only need to land 3 or more identical symbols on adjacent reels – row position doesn’t matter – to trigger a win.

There are 10 pay symbols in the table. Low value ones are the cards Jack to Ace, valued at from 0.1x for 3 Jacks up to 0.4x for 6 Aces. High value picture symbols are the drum, pistols, canon, horse, warship and soldier, valued at from 0.4x for 3 drums up to 20x for 6 soldiers.

Napoleon himself is the Wild, substituting for all pay symbols to complete win ways and landing only on reels 2, 3, 4 and 5.

Features and Gameplay

There is not much to Napoleon Megaways beyond an expanding wild feature in the base game and free spins round with upgrades. Here is how they work:

Expanding Wild

Every time your Napoleon Wild lands it will expand to full reel height to give it more chance of helping to complete win ways.

Free Spins With Symbol Upgrades

The scatter symbol, represented by the crown with word BONUS written through it is required to unlock the free spins round. You need 3 or more to land at once. That gets you 12 spins and a 2x, 20x, 50x or 100x payout for 3, 4, 5 or 6 anywhere on the reels.

Now the Napoleon Wild symbol has added power. Each time it lands it will cause the lowest value of the picture symbols to upgrade to the next one up. So the drum will become the pistols the first time a wild lands, the pistols become the canon the second time a wild lands, and so on until all picture symbols have become the soldier, worth 20x for 6 on a line.

Of course, this significantly increases your chances of scoring big wins.

In addition to that, landing 1, 2, 3 or 4 Napoleon Wilds on a spin gets you 1, 3, 5 or 7 extra free spins. Or alternatively, you can re-trigger the entire round by landing 3 or more scatters on one spin. That gets you 12 more spins and another cash prize of up to 100x (for 6 scatters on one spin).