Paylines
40 paylines (player-selectable 1-40)
Small Soldiers is Genii's slightly daft tribute to toy-army nostalgia, where chibi-Pixar troops share reel space with photoreal Abrams tanks and Vietnam-era Huey helicopters. The whole thing plays out across a sun-lit boot camp, with a watchtower sniper, sandbag wall, and a wooden sign overhead reading “Who Dares Spins.” That's a wink at the British SAS motto, and it sets the tone. Lighthearted, a bit cheeky, but committed to its theme.
Under the hood, you're spinning a 5×3 grid with 40 paylines, all adjustable down to a single line if you want to fiddle with bet shape. Coin sizes start at $0.01 and the total bet caps at $50, with the default landing at $6.00 (3 coins per line across all 40 lines at the smallest chip). It's classic lines-pay, left to right, with only the highest combo paying per active payline.
The headline mechanic is the Officer Wild. He substitutes for everything except the two scatters, pays in his own right, and doubles any win he's part of. That 2-of-a-kind Wild payout for just 8 coins is unusual and kinda nice, even if 8 coins isn't going to change your day. The top combo is brutal in a good way: five Officers across a line stacks 6,000 coins with the x2 multiplier, which is genuinely big money for a Genii release of this vintage.
Free Spins arrive via 3+ FS scatters and scale with your trigger. Three scatters give you 6 spins at 2x, four bumps it to 9 spins at 3x, and the full house of 5 scatters hands over 12 spins at 4x multiplier. There's no retrigger though, which is a fair grumble. Once the round starts, you're locked into whatever tier you landed.
The Artillery Pick-and-Collect bonus is the other path to a payday. Three Artillery scatters anywhere drop you into a target-shoot mini-game where you keep firing for random prizes until you press COLLECT. It's risk-reward without much hand-holding, and the wins aren't multiplied by your FS multiplier, which feels like a missed trick.
The math reads high volatility, the RTP sits around 96%, and the symbol drop-offs are aggressive enough that you'll feel the dry stretches. But when the camo aligns? It hits.