There are many video slots based on legendary figures like King Arthur and Robin Hood, but not that many based on historical figures. Napoleon, the French general features in two interesting video slots. Napoleon: Rise of an Empire has graphics based on history, while Napoleon Boney Parts is clearly irreverently conceived.

Napoleon: Rise of an Empire is from Blueprint. The 5x3 reels with 20 fixed paylines are set in the background of a war scene. The slot game has high variance as evidenced from the payout table. Napoleon is the wild symbol. He also awards line payouts for combinations of two or more symbols. Five Napoleon symbols on an active payline award 100,000 times the line bet. The next highest paying symbols are French soldier and warship from the French fleet. The five-of-a-kind payouts for these symbols are 4,000 and 1,600 times the line bet respectively. The other symbols are horse, cannon and ornately designed playing card icons. The royal insignia is the bonus symbol. Three of them anywhere on the reels award 10 free spins. In the base game Battle Cry Modifier, Napoleon can appear and trigger one of two modifiers. Bonus symbols may be added to the reels increasing the odds of triggering the free spins. Wild symbols may be added to the reels increasing the odds of wild symbols landing in view.

Napoleon Boney Parts is from NextGen Gaming. The title is an amusing corruption of the general’s name Bonaparte. All the humans in the artwork appear as skeletons. Napoleon is the wild symbol that appears on reels 2, 3 and 4. The high paying symbols are a bony Josephine, warship, troop of skeleton soldiers and map. The low paying symbols are the playing card icons. The Boney Parts Feature is triggered by landing three wild symbols on the reels in the same spin. In this bonus game on the second screen, Napoleon is displayed as a skeleton. You get three picks to remove a bone and win cash prizes for each pick. The free spins feature is triggered by landing three or more of the golden emblem scatter symbols. You will be awarded 10 free spins in which all payouts are doubled. The free spins can be retriggered. Napoleon Boney Parts has the optional Gamble Game. After any winning spin you can now try and double or quadruple payout by guessing the colour or suit of the next card. A wrong guess loses it all.