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Blitz raid

Armada Geo build order · Supreme Isthmus

Geo rushes a Vehicle Plant and commits to a T1 Blitz raid from 4:15, far earlier than the role norm, pressuring the middle before moving into its normal T2 transition.

Usually blows up the commander for T2 (66%)

#raid #rush · 115 distinct matches · 37 players · 4% of Armada Geo games · team won 52% of 116 · Recently observed

THE CATCH, AND WHAT COMES WITH IT
  • BlitzT1 vehicle raid from 4:26 · 6% of role by thenFrom the Vehicle Plant. Only 6% of Geo games have it by then; others who build it get it around 7:24
  • Vehicle PlantVehicle Plant in 99%17% of all Geo games by then
  • BlitzBlitz in 53%3% of all Geo games by then

Started with Blitz (90%), Pincer (9%), Rover (1%).

Where those units first fight, in 115 games with kill data: in the middle 77%, on their own side 18%.

Those units destroy a typical 1,428 metal of enemy units by 15:00.

Then transitions into Starlight (20% of army), Jaguar (12% of army).

HOW TO PLAY IT

Key timing: Blitz raid by 4:15

  1. Open mex and Bot Lab same as the usual Geo start.
  2. Get geo up on schedule to keep pace with role norms.
  3. Rush Vehicle Plant and send Blitz tanks out to raid early.
  4. Reclaim Vehicle Plant in most games to recover metal.
  5. Switch into Starlight and Jaguar army as advanced geo finishes.

Phase by phase

TYPICAL OF ITS 115 GAMES · AGAINST STANDARD GEO
  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 4
PLAY THE OPENING

Follow the example game's first 6:00 step by step: what to build now, what comes next, and where it goes. At 1× it keeps pace with your own game.

  1. 1

    Up to the Bot Lab

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor3Mex
    • Wind Turbine4Wind
    Order
    1. Bot LabBot Lab after 3 mex, 4 winddone ~1:12, middle half 0:59–1:18

    By 0:56 in all: 3 mex · 4 wind

    The example game in this phase · 3 steps
    1. Mex ×2
    2. Wind ×4
    3. Bot LabBot Labdone 1:01 · typical 1:12
  2. 2

    Bot Lab to T1 vehicle raid

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor1Mex
    • Wind Turbine1Wind−2 vs standard
    • Energy Converter6Converter
    Order
    1. Geothermal PowerplantGeo after 4 mex, 4 wind, 1 con turret
    2. Bot LabEat Bot Lab
    3. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plant after 4 mex, 5 wind, 6 converter
    4. BlitzT1 vehicle raid after 4 mex, 5 wind, 6 converter
    Builders
    • Construction Turret3 Con turret
    • Lazarus5 Lazarus
    • Construction Bot1 Con bot
    • Construction Bot1 Con bot for allies
    • Lazarus1 Lazarus for allies

    Some games also: energy storage (49%)

    By 4:26 in all: 4 mex · 5 wind · 1 geo · 6 converter · 1 energy storage · 3 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 33 steps
    1. LazarusLazarusfor Front
    2. Construction BotCon bot
    3. LazarusLazarus ×2
    4. Mex
    5. Construction BotCon botfor Beach sea
    6. LazarusLazarusfor Beach sea
    7. Construction BotCon bot
    8. LazarusLazarusfor Front
    9. Con turret
    10. Mex
    11. Con turret
    12. Construction BotCon bot
    13. PawnPawn
    14. Con turret
    15. Energy storage
    16. Geothermal PowerplantGeodone 4:14 · typical 3:31
    17. Wind
    18. Converter
    19. Bot LabEat Bot Labreclaimed for its metal
    20. Converter
    21. Wind
    22. Converter ×2
    23. Wind
    24. Converter
    25. Wind
    26. Metal storage
    27. Converter ×2
    28. Wind
    29. Converter ×2
    30. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 5:22 · typical 4:22
    31. Wind
    32. Converter ×2
    33. BlitzBlitzdone 5:25
  3. 3

    T1 vehicle raid to Advanced Vehicle Plant

    Order
    1. Vehicle PlantEat Vehicle Plant
    2. Advanced Geothermal PowerplantAdvanced Geothermal Powerplant after 5 wind, 6 converter, 6 con turretin 53% of games
    3. Advanced Vehicle PlantAdvanced Vehicle Plant after 10 wind, 9 converter, 6 con turretdone ~8:43, middle half 8:05–10:01
    Builders
    • Construction Turret3 Con turret
    • Construction Vehicle1 Con vehicle
    Army
    • Blitz11 Blitz +11 vs standard

    Some games also: converter (46%) · wind (45%) · energy storage (40%)

    The standard build makes here, this one skips: 3 wind · 7 converter

    By 8:04 in all: 4 mex · 8 wind (standard 11) · 1 geo · 1 Advanced Geothermal Powerplant · 8 converter (standard 12) · 1 energy storage

    The example game in this phase · 32 steps
    1. BlitzBlitz ×2
    2. Wind
    3. Converter
    4. BlitzBlitz ×2
    5. Converter
    6. BlitzBlitz ×3
    7. Converter
    8. Wind
    9. Converter
    10. Vehicle PlantEat Vehicle Plantreclaimed for its metal
    11. Converter
    12. Wind
    13. Converter ×2
    14. Metal storage
    15. Wind
    16. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 7:08 · typical 6:00
    17. Wind
    18. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    19. Wind ×2
    20. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    21. Wind
    22. Con turret ×3
    23. Advanced Geothermal PowerplantAdvanced Geothermal Powerplantdone 9:05 · typical 7:50
    24. Con turret
    25. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 9:09
    26. BlitzBlitz ×8
    27. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    28. BlitzBlitz ×7
    29. Con turret
    30. BlitzBlitz ×3
    31. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    32. Advanced Vehicle PlantAdvanced Vehicle Plantdone 10:43 · typical 8:43
  4. 4

    Advanced Vehicle Plant to 10:00

    Some games also: wind (41%) · Starlight (36%)

    The standard build makes here, this one skips: 4 wind · 2 converter · 2 Starlight

    By 10:00 in all: 4 mex · 12 wind (standard 18) · 1 geo · 1 Advanced Geothermal Powerplant · 10 converter (standard 16) · 1 energy storage

    The example game in this phase · 73 steps
    1. Con turret ×3
    2. Advanced Construction VehicleT2 con vehiclefor Front
    3. Fortification WallFortification Wall
    4. Con turret
    5. Fortification WallFortification Wall ×6
    6. Converter
    7. Fortification WallFortification Wall ×4
    8. StarlightStarlightdone 11:29 · typical 9:48
    9. Vehicle PlantEat Vehicle Plantreclaimed for its metal
    10. Fortification WallFortification Wall ×2
    11. StarlightStarlight
    12. Converter
    13. SentrySentry ×2
    14. Advanced Radar TowerAdvanced Radar Tower
    15. UmbraJammer
    16. Converter
    17. VeilVeil
    18. ProphetRadar vehicle
    19. TracerTracer
    20. Converter
    21. StarlightStarlight
    22. SentrySentry
    23. Converter
    24. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    25. Converter
    26. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×5
    27. GremlinStealth tank
    28. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    29. Converter
    30. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    31. GremlinStealth tank
    32. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    33. GremlinStealth tank
    34. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    35. GremlinStealth tank
    36. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    37. Converter
    38. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    39. GremlinStealth tank
    40. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×8
    41. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 13:59
    42. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×3
    43. Converter
    44. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×3
    45. Advanced Vehicle PlantEat Advanced Vehicle Plantreclaimed for its metal
    46. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    47. BlitzBlitz
    48. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    49. BlitzBlitz
    50. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    51. BlitzBlitz ×2
    52. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    53. BlitzBlitz ×2
    54. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    55. BlitzBlitz ×2
    56. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 14:17
    57. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    58. BlitzBlitz ×2
    59. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    60. Converter
    61. BlitzBlitz ×2
    62. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    63. BlitzBlitz ×2
    64. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    65. BlitzBlitz ×4
    66. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    67. BlitzBlitz ×17
    68. BeamerBeamer
    69. BlitzBlitz
    70. BeamerBeamer
    71. BlitzBlitz ×2
    72. Converter
    73. BlitzBlitz ×2

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Sangheili_Major's (30 OS, 25/08/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

  • Lazarus1 Lazarus to Beach sea or Frontfirst at 2:15 · in 69% of games
  • Construction Bot1 Con bot to Beach seafirst at 2:42 · in 83% of games
  • Advanced Construction Vehicle1 T2 con vehicle to Front or Suicide frontfirst at 9:24 · in 41% of games

You get

  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Techfirst at 4:58 · in 88% of games

How it plays out

Typical game of this build against the role’s standard build, running totals by minute

  • This build
  • Standard geo

Metal produced

020k40k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

Enemy metal destroyed

05k10k15k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

Own metal lost

02.5k5k7.5k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

116 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildMetal produced: Standard geoEnemy metal destroyed: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: Standard geoOwn metal lost: This buildOwn metal lost: Standard geo
1:003843330000
2:009078590000
3:00164015270000
4:00265226700000
5:00411936940000
6:00606856387201200
7:007922802672009900
8:001055011346993013400
9:001346214406137343145084
10:00162941728017844721598198
11:001917720125285517452045520
12:0021733229954487361831141605
13:0024289257355933583742792970
14:0027337285897274823959024432
15:00298033136084501017267065586
WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY

Matches standard team win rate but trades more own metal lost for a higher metal production lead, with raids fighting mostly at home.

  • + Metal production climbs to 4434 vs 3716 standard by 5:00.
  • + Enemy metal destroyed by 10:00 triples standard (1823 vs 534).
  • − Own metal lost by 10:00 jumps to 1600 vs 260 standard.
  • − Enemy metal destroyed by 15:00 still falls short of standard (8429 vs 10573).
THE EXAMPLE YOU ARE READING

Sangheili_Major

30.1 OS · 25/08/2026

Open source match ↗

1 received units · includes a constructor
241 metal received · 46194 energy received

Allied construction assistance is unknown. Timings are observations, not a promise of solo reproducibility.

Typical milestones

Bot Lab1:12Middle 50%: 0:59–1:18 · n=111
Geothermal Powerplant3:31Middle 50%: 3:16–3:41 · n=114
Vehicle Plant4:22Middle 50%: 4:06–4:48 · n=116
Advanced Metal Extractor6:00Middle 50%: 5:36–6:42 · n=108
Advanced Geothermal Powerplant7:50Middle 50%: 7:26–8:30 · n=68
Advanced Vehicle Plant8:43Middle 50%: 8:05–10:01 · n=75
Starlight9:48Middle 50%: 8:55–11:29 · n=65

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