Spartan Arena
In Sparta, free and premium players can take on other players at the Spartan Arena. Sparta becomes available at level 1, after you accept the Sparta! Quest. Once you’re in the Spartan Arena, you can choose to play Standard (unranked) or Champion (ranked) modes of PvP.
If you select Standard mode, you will play with all the gear, techs, and Advisors you’ve chosen in your Capital City, and your wins and losses won’t be recorded. But unlike in the Capital City Arena, you will earn rewards to advance your Capital City, and both free and premium player can initiate Standard matches.
Champion mode, on the other hand, is available to premium players only. This is a ranked mode, so your wins and losses are recorded and displayed on the Leaderboard for all civilizations to see! What’s more, your civilization’s entire Tech Tree, including Star Techs, is available to you; gear acts as a vanity item, affecting the look of your units but not their actual stats; and Advisors are not welcome, so unique units from Advisor Cards can’t assist in the Spartan Arena. When you win matches in ranked play, you gain rewards to apply to your Capital City and bolster your units for boosters, quest, and unranked PvP!
In addition, for each Spartan quest successfully completed, premium civilization players receive XP, Sparta Points, and Empire Points, which can be used to purchase equipment from Spartan stores. Free players also receive XP, Sparta Points, and Empire Points for completing Standard matches, but the amount is less and the Points cannot be spent.
To join the matchmaking queue
1. Travel to Sparta.
2. Click the Spartan Arena.
3. Select Standard or Champion to determine whether play is Unranked or Ranked.
4. Select 1v1, 2v2, or 4-player FFA to determine the game type.
5. Click Quick Match.

Leaderboards
There are two Leaderboards—1v1 and 2v2—for Champion players. Compare your stats with your friends and other players while in the Spartan Arena.
Standard matches are made using a player’s level first and then the TrueSkill™ ranking system. These unranked matches have no impact on your TrueSkill rank in Champion mode, where your rank is used exclusively for matchmaking. Either way, you can head into the Spartan Arena confident that you are about to face an opponent with similar skills—one you can potentially overpower!

Multiplayer