Play Roman Legion demo
Five Lines Under the Eagle
One slot that displays potential is Roman Legion, and for this launch, Gamomat has opted to run with a conventional layout of 5 reels and 3 rows. Line wins pay left to right, starting on the leftmost reel. Winning combos can be created on one or more of the 5 fixed paylines. The session behind this review ran 360 spins at a stake of 5.00, which is 1.00 per line. Don't let the old-fashioned layout have you tricked. Any regular line win can be gambled, either on the colour or suit of a card or on a ladder where the win moves up and down the steps. This Roman-themed slot is capable of producing enormous wins with the aid of its Roman Soldier wilds, and there's also a focus on the wilds in the free spins round. Only 64 of the 360 spins paid anything, and 31 of those returned just the stake.
Banners, Coins and a Soldier on Line 1
Symbols on the reels comprise lower value A, K, Q, J, 10 and 9 symbols, and more lucrative are the Eagle and Coins symbols. The Eagle and the Coins pay the same, 750 times the line bet for five of a kind. Most lucrative of the regular symbols is the Banner, granting you 1,000 times your line bet for 5 of a kind. At the bottom, five Aces or Kings return 150 times the line bet and five of the Q, J, 10 or 9 return 100 times. The Roman Soldier is the wild. On the second spin of the session, four Aces on line 1 paid 40.00, the 40 times the line bet the paytable lists for that combination at 1.00 per line.
It substitutes all symbols except the scatter and will award you 2,500 times your line bet if you hit a wild line. That figure needs the Soldier on all five reels of the same line.
Where the Horseman Rides
When you hit 3 Horseman scatter symbols on reels 1, 3 and 5 on the same spin, it becomes more interesting. The Horseman lands only on those three reels and pays in any position. Beginning with 10 Free Spins, every wild that lands becomes sticky. The feature landed three times in 360 spins, on spins 108, 269 and 358, the last one straight after a 22-spin run without a win. Each sticky wild keeps its position until the round finishes. Those three rounds paid 35.00, 375.00 and 850.00, or 7, 75 and 170 times the stake.
The round does not retrigger. The second round came 161 spins after the first, when the balance stood at 4,150.00, the lowest point of the session, and the third followed 89 spins later. In sum, you can win 10 free spins with a max win of 2,500 times your stake.
Our Minty Verdict: Over 360 spins the balance moved from 5,000.00 to 5,120.00, and Free Spins supplied 1,260.00 of the 1,920.00 won, 66% of the total. Roman Legion is an extremely volatile slot.