Arena? What is the Arena?

[rsolow]

What is the Arena? How do I find it? It is referenced in this post:
http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...b=5&o=&fpart=1

[Nerfix]

Are is a magic site but The Arena is a commander vs commander deathmatch competition that occasionaly comes up in the game

[SafeKeeper]

The Arena is a site that gives you gold.

And the Arena Death Match is a fight to the death between two commanders, wherein the victor gets a magic artefact.

[CogDissident]

Let me be more specific on the death match. Most civilizations will send a hero, and then the arena match does a series of 1-on-1 battles, with the victor winning an artifact. You keep the artifact until the next arena, when you can either send another person and try to keep the artifact, or forefit it to the winning nation.

Usually its good to try to win the arena, if you have a powerful well equipped commander (and prophets make a good choice too), simply to kill the enemy commanders and make sure nobody else gets the weapon. Occasionally some empires will risk their god, and gods usually win, but theres always that chance that some Jountheim frost giant will show up with a midget masher and decimate your god.

[thejeff]

Actually if you win and have a hand slot (Two? The Trident is two-handed, right?), you get the prize.
It is cursed so the Champion has to keep it and when another death match happens, the Champion will automatically attend.
(Unless that's changed since Dom2. I don't think it has.)

The Champion is assumed to be the current holder of the trident, so I'd assume it's possible he could be killed and someone else pick it up on the battlefield.

In Dom2, the AI would often send their god in. I haven't seen that yet in Dom3.

[The_Tauren13]

thejeff said:
In Dom2, the AI would often send their god in. I haven't seen that yet in Dom3.

They still do.