Spartacus Call to Arms Slot by Light & Wonder

Eight gold-rimmed medallions ring the main grid, four stacked down each stone column, and they are the whole reason to play this one. Every spin, each of these gladiator medallions, the game calls them Special Reels, lands a single paytable symbol of its own, never the lion Bonus. What matters is how many of them show the SAME symbol. Match two and any winning payline using that symbol pays 2x. Three pays 3x, four jumps to 5x, five to 10x, then 25x, 50x, and all eight medallions landing the same face hits 250x. The catch keeps it honest: the multiplier only counts if that symbol is actually part of a win on the 5x4 board. A wall of matching helmets means nothing if no helmet line connects.

Several matches can resolve in one spin, each scoring its own symbol independently, so a busy screen might multiply a gladiator line and a coin line on completely different ladders at once. The Wild is the Call to Arms shield, and it has a quirk tied to the medallions. When a Wild drops onto one of the Special Reels it does not sit there, it jumps to a random spot on the main reels instead, never landing on an existing Bonus or Wild.

The roaring golden lion is the Bonus, showing only on reels one, three and five. Three of them pay 2x the total bet and open 10 free spins. The free games are where the medallions earn their keep: extra Wilds seed the reels, and every Special Reel multiplier doubles. Now two matches pay 4x, six pay 50x, and a full set of eight matching symbols runs to 500x on a connected line. Three more lions during the round add another 10 spins.

The board itself is a slab of carved gold framing a wooden plank panel between two pitted stone columns, the medallions glowing against deep crimson backing, with armoured warriors on round shields, bronze and silver face-masks, daggers and stacked coins filling the reels. No jackpot, no feature buy, and the lion is the only way in. Worth knowing if you came from one of the dual-reel Spartacus builds: this Light & Wonder entry runs a single grid and puts all its weight on the ring of medallions.