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Hovercraft raid

Armada Beach sea build order · Supreme Isthmus

Builds a hovercraft platform before the shipyard and pushes out Seeker hovercraft early to raid, then transitions into the normal destroyer-based sea game.

Hovers first

#raid #naval · 88 distinct matches · 33 players · 12% of Armada Beach sea games · team won 52% of 88 · Recently observed

THE CATCH, AND WHAT COMES WITH IT
  • Hovercraft PlatformHovercraft Platform in 100%15% of all Beach sea games by then
  • SeekerSeeker in 99%15% of all Beach sea games by then

Then transitions into destroyer (31% of army), seeker (17% of army), frigate (10% of army).

HOW TO PLAY IT

Key timing: Hovercraft Platform by 1:10

  1. Open with mex and wind instead of straight shipyard.
  2. Build a Hovercraft Platform right after your initial eco.
  3. Push out a Seeker raid to harass enemy sea entry early.
  4. Put down the shipyard once the raid is out.
  5. Add Corsair and settle into standard sea play from here.

Phase by phase

TYPICAL OF ITS 88 GAMES · AGAINST STANDARD BEACH SEA
  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
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 Hovercraft Platform

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor3Mex
    • Wind Turbine4Wind+3 vs standard
    Order
    1. Hovercraft PlatformHovercraft Platform after 3 mex, 4 winddone ~1:41, middle half 1:36–1:52

    Some games also: energy storage (44%) · wind for allies (39%)

    By 1:10 in all: 3 mex · 4 wind (standard 1)

    The example game in this phase · 8 steps
    1. Mex ×2
    2. Wind
    3. Mex
    4. Wind
    5. Wind ×2for Air
    6. Wind
    7. Energy storage
    8. Hovercraft PlatformHovercraft Platformdone 1:45 · typical 1:41
  2. 2

    Hovercraft Platform to Shipyard

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor3Mex
    • Wind Turbine5Wind+4 vs standard
    Order
    1. ShipyardShipyard after 6 mex, 10 winddone ~4:16, middle half 4:00–4:38
    Builders
    • Construction Hovercraft3 Con hovercraft +3 vs standard
    Army
    • Seeker7 Seeker +7 vs standard

    The standard build makes here, this one skips: 2 tidal · 2 con ship · 2 skater · 2 dolphin

    By 3:56 in all: 6 mex · 10 wind (standard 2) · 1 energy storage

    The example game in this phase · 9 steps
    1. Wind
    2. CrocodileCrocodile
    3. Wind ×2
    4. SeekerSeeker
    5. Construction HovercraftCon hovercraft
    6. SeekerSeeker
    7. Construction HovercraftCon hovercraft ×2
    8. Mex
    9. ShipyardShipyarddone 4:14 · typical 4:16
  3. 3

    Shipyard to 10:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor4Mex
    • Wind Turbine13Wind
    Builders
    • Construction Turret1 Con turret
    • Grim Reaper1 Grim Reaper
    • Construction Ship1 Con ship
    Army
    • Sentry2 Sentry
    • Dolphin3 Dolphin −2 vs standard
    • Corsair3 Destroyer
    • Skater3 Skater
    Other
    • Naval Radar / Sonar Tower1 Naval Radar / Sonar Tower

    Some games also: Harpoon (49%) · tidal (45%) · Naval Construction Turret (39%) · frigate (38%) · converter (36%)

    By 10:00 in all: 10 mex · 23 wind (standard 16) · 1 energy storage · 1 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 111 steps
    1. Mex
    2. Con turret ×2
    3. Mex
    4. SkaterSkater
    5. Mex
    6. CorsairDestroyerdone 4:53 · typical 5:52
    7. Naval Radar / Sonar TowerNaval Radar / Sonar Tower
    8. SentrySentry
    9. Mex
    10. EllysawFrigate
    11. Wind
    12. Mex
    13. Wind
    14. Naval Radar / Sonar TowerNaval Radar / Sonar Tower
    15. Wind ×2
    16. EllysawFrigate
    17. Wind
    18. HarpoonHarpoon
    19. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    20. Wind ×2
    21. NettleNettle
    22. Wind ×4
    23. EllysawFrigate
    24. Wind ×3
    25. Grim ReaperGrim Reaper
    26. Wind ×2
    27. Construction ShipCon ship
    28. Wind
    29. SkaterSkater
    30. Wind
    31. Naval Radar / Sonar TowerNaval Radar / Sonar Tower
    32. CorsairDestroyer
    33. SentrySentry
    34. Converter ×3
    35. SentrySentry
    36. Converter
    37. EllysawFrigate
    38. Converter ×2
    39. Tidal
    40. EllysawFrigate
    41. Mex
    42. Tidal
    43. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:24 · typical 9:24
    44. Wind ×2
    45. Tidal
    46. Wind
    47. EllysawFrigate
    48. Wind ×3
    49. Tidal
    50. Wind
    51. Naval Radar / Sonar TowerNaval Radar / Sonar Tower
    52. Grim ReaperGrim Reaper
    53. Tidal
    54. Construction ShipCon ship
    55. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    56. SkaterSkater
    57. Tidal
    58. CorsairDestroyer
    59. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    60. EllysawFrigate
    61. Grim ReaperGrim Reaper ×2
    62. Tidal
    63. EllysawFrigate
    64. Naval Construction Turret
    65. EllysawFrigate
    66. Tidal
    67. Naval Construction Turret
    68. EllysawFrigate
    69. Tidal
    70. Naval Construction Turret
    71. EllysawFrigate
    72. Wind
    73. Advanced ShipyardAdvanced Shipyarddone 12:25
    74. Tidal
    75. Grim ReaperGrim Reaper
    76. Construction ShipCon ship
    77. CorsairDestroyer
    78. Wind
    79. Tidal
    80. Wind
    81. Tidal
    82. Wind
    83. Tidal
    84. Wind
    85. Tidal
    86. Advanced Construction SubAdvanced Construction Sub
    87. Tidal
    88. Wind
    89. Naval Construction Turret
    90. VoyagerVoyager
    91. Wind
    92. Tidal
    93. VoyagerVoyager
    94. Naval Construction Turret
    95. VoyagerVoyager
    96. Wind
    97. DreadnoughtBattleshipdone 14:20
    98. Tidal
    99. Naval Advanced Metal ExtractorNaval Advanced Metal Extractordone 14:11
    100. Wind
    101. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    102. Wind ×2
    103. Naval Advanced Metal ExtractorNaval Advanced Metal Extractor
    104. BermudaRadar jammer ship
    105. SkaterSkater
    106. Wind
    107. DreadnoughtBattleship
    108. SkaterSkater
    109. Wind
    110. SkaterSkater
    111. Naval Advanced Metal ExtractorNaval Advanced Metal Extractor

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Adeus's (37 OS, 04/10/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

  • Wind Turbine2 Wind to Air or Geo seafirst at 1:49 · in 51% of games

You get

  • Finch1 Finch from Airfirst at 1:50 · in 58% of games
  • Lazarus1 Lazarus from Geofirst at 2:01 · in 50% of games
  • Hercules1 Light transport from Airfirst at 2:11 · in 33% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Techfirst at 7:51 · in 81% of games

How it plays out

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

  • This build
  • Standard beach sea

Metal produced

010k20k30k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

Enemy metal destroyed

05k10k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

Own metal lost

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

metal

88 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildMetal produced: Standard beach seaEnemy metal destroyed: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: Standard beach seaOwn metal lost: This buildOwn metal lost: Standard beach sea
1:004044040000
2:009389380000
3:00153315890000
4:002381254951515150
5:0037603734411254254125
6:0051305155842568566300
7:006495671012001143821610
8:00805183101699167611261037
9:009663100132242250216861656
10:0011480119153314359620422419
11:0013840142314045454924813242
12:0016436169304857539831584012
13:0018586197585289645738094885
14:0021302224506461726047915761
15:0023846253966927836554246721
WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY

Won more often than the standard build with a similar economy but far more early kills by 5:00.

  • + Enemy metal destroyed hit 444 by 5:00 vs 180 standard.
  • + Own metal lost stayed lower at 15:00 despite the raid.
  • − Metal produced trails standard by 10:00 and 15:00.
  • − Enemy metal destroyed by 15:00 falls behind standard (6667 vs 8279).
THE EXAMPLE YOU ARE READING

Adeus

36.9 OS · 04/10/2026

Open source match ↗

5 received units · includes a constructor
1466 metal received · 49656 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Hovercraft Platform1:41Middle 50%: 1:36–1:52 · n=88
Shipyard4:16Middle 50%: 4:00–4:38 · n=76
Corsair5:52Middle 50%: 5:21–7:17 · n=71
Advanced Metal Extractor9:24Middle 50%: 8:56–10:33 · n=73

Played most by

KingBenjai22games of this buildRysica10games of this buildAdeus6games of this build[ADS]Kackbarren5games of this buildTheGeneraI4games of this build