Red Flag Fleet Pokies
Themed around Chinese pirates, the Red Flag Fleet video pokie by WMS Gaming hopefully won’t plunder the bankrolls of anyone playing it, as there’s lots of chances to spin up some wins across the 6 reels, and plenty of bonus features such as free spins, scatter awards, wild reels and stacked symbols. The unusual layout is the first thing that players will notice, and it’s been cleverly designed to look like parts of a junk, where the number of symbols, and therefore height of each reel increases from left to right.
A beautifully-drawn picture of a ship sailing into the distance is behind the reels, and because of their design, there is plenty of room on the left to make this image stand out, while the game title sits above and the standard set of control buttons are located at the bottom of the game. The minimum real cash bet that can be placed on a spin of these reels is 0.40, which can be adjusted up to a high limit of 80.00, and all 192 paylines that run across the game are permanently active.
Free Red Flag Fleet video pokies can be played at most WMS Gaming-powered casinos, which gives people a chance to try it out before placing their bets. The game isn’t mobile-optimised however, but like all pokies from this developer, it’s fair and reliable.
Playing Red Flag Fleet
The distinct layout of the reels sees just 2 symbols on the left side, with each being 1 symbol higher than the last, until reel 6, which is 7 symbol positions high.
In standard play, lining 3 or more of the same type of symbol across a payline will win a prize, although the line will need to start from the left side, and have no gaps in it. Symbols can be stacked, so lining them up is fairly easy. A review of the pay table shows how many coins will be won for each combination, and the smaller wins are paid out when the J, Q, K and A playing card symbols make up a line.
To win more, players will want to see the various pirates landing in the right places, and we have 5 different characters in this game, each worth varying amounts, but all are worth less than the game logo which doubles up as a wild symbol.
Red Flag Fleet
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Bonus Features
When the game logo is in the right place to fill in the gaps between symbols, it will act as all others, apart from the Bonus, and players will still win a prize. The wild can also turn winning lines into higher value wins across additional reels, and this symbol is also stacked, so completing several combinations at once is quite possible.
Shiver me timbers! There’s a free spins game triggered by the pirate ship symbol appearing in any 3 or more spots on the reels at once. The number of free games that will play out depends on how many ships berthed in view, with just 3 of them being the start of 5 spins, if 4 ships landed, then players get a scatter prize of 10x their bet per spin, followed by 12 spins, and if a whole fleet of 5 ship symbols turned up, then a big win of 50x the stake will be followed by 40 free games.
A different set of reels are used throughout the free games, as reel 1 on the left side, is the biggest, at 7 symbols high, and they get progressively smaller towards the right, until reel 6 is 2 symbols high. In addition, there’s 2 random reels filled with an expanding wild symbol on each spin. The bonus games can be retriggered from within the round, and any new ones will begin as soon as the current round has finished.
The Verdict
An unusual format to the reels, and the seemingly random number of 192 paylines can make it a bit difficult to understand how this game works, but it’s fairly easy to follow once the reels have spun a couple of times.
The real highlight is the free spins game, where players are pretty much gusranteed to end the round substantially better off than they began them with, thanks largely to those random wild reels making it much easier to complete lines. There’s also that initial scatter payout, but even in the normal run of play, the Red Flag Fleet video pokies symbols should spin up some frequent winning combinations.