
The most common causes of this issue are: There are dedicated tournaments that are only played on Arena, like the Clown Cup series, Gladiators of the Arena, the DemEyesRed Arena Cup, the Masters of Arena series, or Lords of the Arena.Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests.This also is an explanation for the Clown Legion team name.Arena-only players (like JonSlow, DracKeN or Modri) are often called "clowns" or "Arena clowns" since 8th wonder's legendary forum post on AoEZone.DemEyesRed Arena Cup (DERAC): map information (Voobly).Clown Arena (created 2021): smaller area between the two bases, more space in the back and more wood ( example: Showmatch JorDan vs TheViper).On the other hand, civilizations that have a hard time on Arena are among others: Berbers, Huns, Tatars. Good non-gold units (called Trash units) to close the game when your access to gold has run out.Īccordingly, to the best Arena-civilizations are counted (alphabetical order): Aztecs, Britons, Byzantines, Lithuanians, Malay, Teutons, Turks.General Late-game abilities and fully upgraded units like Paladins.Especially, the access to the Redemption-technology which allows the conversion of siege weapons can be an important tool for victory. A broad Monastery tech-tree allowing for good Monks.Thriving Siege weapons, as they can deal with defensive structures and also with huge masses of army.A good economy to reach Castle Age as fast as possible and in addition to have a great economy-boom afterwards to afford expensive mid and late game army and technologies.A good Arena civilzation combines the following: With the above, one can deduce which Civilizations are generally good on Arena. In particular, the access to strong Late-game options such as Bombard Cannons specifically can be crucial at that stage of the game, since those cannot only destroy buildings, but also defeat other siege weapons. Trebuchets, Bombard Cannons or Siege Rams are needed. To generally raze those castles, Imperial Age siege units, i.e. With that, one or two well-placed castles can save your base entirely and also grant control over ressources in the center of map, which can benefit civilizations with good defensive possibilities. This makes the map rather one-dimensional and narrows down the possible angles of attack. The fight for Relics is an important aspect of Arena-games, because their possession and gold income can be decisive in the Ultra-late game if the mineral ressources have run out.Īdditionally, the center of the map is rather open but narrow due to the thick surrounding woodlines, which explains the name Arena. A Siege-Monk rush shortened Smush or a Castle-drop strategy can be usually seen after having reached the Castle Age. Here specifically, the players try to get to Castle Age as fast as possible to gain access to Castles, Siege Weapons and Monks to acquire map control and breach the opponent's walls. Therefore, a Fast Castle-strategy is seen the most frequently. The layout of the map leads to a general delay of any aggression into Castle Age due to having a safe starting base and safe access to ressources. The latter two features distinguishes Arena heavily from the other well-known map Fortress, where you also start with a stone-walled base.

No hills to avoid camping on hills benefitting the player on top with hill bonus.Extensive woodlines around the edges of the map.Every player starts with a base surrounded by stone-walls.It is the classic map when it comes to so-called closed maps, that is why this map has always been in the ranked mappool for AoE II DE next to Arabia. This setup leads often to longer games as early rush strategies are less effective. All players start with pre-built stone walls around their starting Town Center. Arena is a Age of Empires 2 multiplayer map.
