Sparta is age 16 on the Idle Ages ladder, set in 700 BCE. You unlock it with coins the ages below it earned. From there it produces on its own cycle, with its own upgrade costs and its own four heroes.
| Position | Age 16 of 40 |
|---|---|
| Date | 700 BCE |
| Legendary | Leonidas |
| Automation | Needs Lycurgus at level 5, after which the age produces with the app closed for up to 8 hours |
| Heroes | Leonidas, Gorgo, Cynisca, Lycurgus |
Leonidas raises every age you own at once. The other three raise this one. All four carry a piece of written history that unlocks as you level them.
Legendary
Leonidas, king of Sparta, held the pass at Thermopylae for three days with 300 Spartans and a few thousand allies against a Persian army of tens of thousands. Told the Persian arrows would blot out the sun, his soldier replied: "Good - then we’ll fight in the shade." His last stand became the world’s shorthand for defiance.
Raises output in every age you own, and most of all in their own. Every level doubles what they add.
Epic
Gorgo, queen of Sparta, was famous across Greece for her sharp mind. As a child she caught a foreign envoy bribing her father; later she solved the puzzle of a blank wax tablet hiding a secret warning of Persian invasion. Asked why Spartan women could "rule men," she answered: "Because we are the only women who give birth to men."
Raises the output and production speed of their own age. Every level doubles what they add.
Rare
Cynisca, a Spartan princess, exploited a loophole: Olympic charioteers did not have to be present - the horse OWNER won the prize. Barred as a woman from competing, she bred and trained her own team and won the four-horse chariot race twice. Her victory monument at Olympia declared she was the only woman in all Greece to win the crown.
Raises the production speed of their own age. Every level doubles what they add.
Common Manager, level 5
Lycurgus gave Sparta its famous system: common meals, brutal training from age seven, contempt for luxury, and iron bars instead of coins. He made the citizens swear to keep his laws until he returned from a journey - then never came back, starving himself so the oath would bind forever.
Raises the production speed of their own age. Every level multiplies what they add by 1.6. Levelling Lycurgus to 5 is what automates Sparta.
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