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Mace rush

Armada Front build order · Supreme Isthmus

Skips the vehicle side early and pushes Mace out of the Bot Lab from around 2:00, far earlier than normal, to assault the middle with T1 bots before the usual buildup.

#rush #raid · 68 distinct matches · 33 players · 2% of Armada Front games · team won 51% of 68 · Recently observed

THE CATCH, AND WHAT COMES WITH IT
  • MaceT1 bot assault from 2:01 · 4% of role by thenFrom the Bot Lab. Only 4% of Front games have it by then; others who build it get it around 3:02
  • MaceMace in 75%3% of all Front games by then

Where those units first fight, in 68 games with kill data: in the middle 91%, on their own side 9%.

Those units destroy a typical 2,006 metal of enemy units by 15:00.

Then transitions into rocketeer (15% of army), pawn (10% of army).

HOW TO PLAY IT

Key timing: Mace by 2:36

  1. Open double mex into fast Bot Lab, skip extra eco.
  2. Finish Bot Lab early and start cranking Mace.
  3. Push first Mace straight to middle, harass enemy eco.
  4. Keep feeding Mace to front as your main force.
  5. Reclaim Bot Lab and shift into mixed bot army.

Phase by phase

TYPICAL OF ITS 68 GAMES · AGAINST STANDARD FRONT
  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 Extractor2Mex
    Order
    1. Bot LabBot Lab after 2 mexdone ~0:35, middle half 0:26–0:41

    By 0:19 in all: 2 mex

    The example game in this phase · 3 steps
    1. Mex ×3
    2. Wind
    3. Bot LabBot Labdone 0:55 · typical 0:35
  2. 2

    Bot Lab to T1 bot assault

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor2Mex
    • Wind Turbine2Wind
    Order
    1. MaceT1 bot assault after 4 mex, 2 wind
    Builders
    • Construction Bot2 Con bot
    • Lazarus1 Lazarus
    Army
    • Tick3 Tick +3 vs standard

    Some games also: pawn (47%) · centurion (34%)

    By 2:00 in all: 4 mex · 2 wind

    The example game in this phase · 10 steps
    1. PawnPawn
    2. TickTick ×2
    3. LazarusLazarus
    4. Construction BotCon bot
    5. Wind
    6. LazarusLazarus
    7. Wind
    8. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    9. PawnPawn ×2
    10. MaceMacedone 2:15
  3. 3

    T1 bot assault to 5:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor3Mex
    Builders
    • Lazarus1 Lazarus
    • Construction Bot1 Con bot
    Army
    • Sentry1 Sentry
    • Mace9 Mace +9 vs standard

    Some games also: wind (49%) · rocketeer (46%) · con turret (40%)

    The standard build makes here, this one skips: 2 wind · 6 rocketeer

    By 5:00 in all: 6 mex · 4 wind · 1 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 23 steps
    1. MaceMace ×2
    2. Mex ×2
    3. MaceMace
    4. Con turret
    5. MaceMace ×2
    6. SentrySentry
    7. MaceMace
    8. Mex
    9. MaceMace
    10. SentrySentry
    11. MaceMace ×2
    12. Wind
    13. MaceMace
    14. Wind
    15. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    16. Wind
    17. LazarusLazarus
    18. Wind
    19. LazarusLazarus
    20. Wind
    21. MaceMace
    22. Wind
    23. MaceMace ×3
  4. 4

    5:00 to 10:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor1Mex
    • Wind Turbine19Wind
    Builders
    • Construction Turret2 Con turret
    • Construction Bot2 Con bot +2 vs standard
    • Lazarus2 Lazarus +2 vs standard
    Army
    • Sentry1 Sentry
    • Mace8 Mace +8 vs standard

    Some games also: Radar Tower (50%) · rocketeer (46%) · energy storage (46%) · converter (38%) · centurion (34%)

    By 10:00 in all: 8 mex · 25 wind · 1 energy storage · 3 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 138 steps
    1. MaceMace
    2. LazarusLazarus ×2
    3. MaceMace ×5
    4. LazarusLazarus ×2
    5. MaceMace ×5
    6. LazarusLazarus ×2
    7. MaceMace ×5
    8. LazarusLazarus
    9. TickTick ×4
    10. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 8:55 · typical 9:32
    11. TickTick
    12. Wind
    13. TickTick
    14. Wind
    15. TickTick
    16. Con turret
    17. TickTick ×3
    18. Wind
    19. TickTick ×2
    20. Wind
    21. Construction BotCon botfor Geo
    22. Converter
    23. Wind
    24. Converter
    25. TickTick
    26. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    27. TickTick
    28. Converter
    29. Wind
    30. TickTick ×2
    31. Wind
    32. TickTick ×2
    33. Wind
    34. Construction BotCon bot
    35. TickTick ×2
    36. Wind
    37. TickTick ×4
    38. Wind
    39. Construction BotCon bot
    40. Wind
    41. TickTick
    42. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    43. Wind
    44. TickTick ×5
    45. Construction BotCon bot
    46. TickTick ×3
    47. Con turret
    48. TickTick ×4
    49. MaceMace ×3
    50. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    51. MaceMace ×2
    52. LazarusLazarus
    53. TickTick ×6
    54. PawnPawn ×2
    55. TickTick
    56. PawnPawn ×4
    57. TickTick ×5
    58. PawnPawn ×2
    59. TickTick
    60. PawnPawn
    61. Wind
    62. PawnPawn
    63. Wind
    64. PawnPawn
    65. Wind
    66. PawnPawn
    67. Wind
    68. TickTick
    69. Wind
    70. TickTick
    71. Wind
    72. TickTick ×2
    73. Wind
    74. TickTick
    75. PawnPawn
    76. Wind
    77. PawnPawn
    78. Wind
    79. TickTick
    80. Wind
    81. PawnPawn
    82. Wind
    83. PawnPawn
    84. Con turret
    85. PawnPawn ×2
    86. Con turret
    87. Wind
    88. TickTick ×2
    89. Con turret
    90. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    91. TickTick ×3
    92. Con turret
    93. PawnPawn
    94. Wind
    95. TickTick ×6
    96. PawnPawn
    97. Converter
    98. TickTick
    99. Converter
    100. TickTick ×2
    101. Wind
    102. TickTick ×2
    103. Wind
    104. TickTick
    105. PawnPawn
    106. Wind
    107. TickTick ×2
    108. Wind
    109. TickTick ×4
    110. Wind
    111. PawnPawn
    112. TickTick
    113. Wind
    114. TickTick ×2
    115. Wind
    116. TickTick ×2
    117. Wind
    118. TickTick
    119. PawnPawn
    120. TickTick ×5
    121. Pit BullPit Bull
    122. TickTick
    123. PawnPawn
    124. TickTick ×6
    125. PawnPawn
    126. TickTick ×6
    127. PawnPawn
    128. TickTick ×2
    129. Wind
    130. TickTick
    131. Wind
    132. TickTick ×2
    133. Wind
    134. TickTick
    135. Wind
    136. PawnPawn
    137. Wind
    138. TickTick

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is illusiveman2024's (30 OS, 13/08/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

Nothing regular.

You get

  • Tidal Generator4 Tidal from Pondfirst at 0:15 · in 59% of games
  • Tidal Generator4 Tidal from Pondfirst at 0:20 · in 37% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Geo or Techfirst at 8:06 · in 68% of games

How it plays out

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

  • This build
  • Standard front

Metal produced

010k20k30k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

Enemy metal destroyed

05k10k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

Own metal lost

05k10k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

68 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildMetal produced: Standard frontEnemy metal destroyed: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: Standard frontOwn metal lost: This buildOwn metal lost: Standard front
1:003303330000
2:008428420212131
3:001645161913013596108
4:0026462699391522328333
5:00389338467951123806781
6:00498350341453191913601415
7:00642862651964271421472286
8:00756375502764354530013152
9:00909290023493431936734047
10:0010964105784129501145814770
11:0012585124104856552853405546
12:0014166145465231599360996394
13:0016906169256160647768076995
14:0019646192996792725081767836
15:0021682219637353788492228705
WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY

Won less often than the standard build despite similar early production, trading slightly less enemy metal destroyed for slightly more own losses by 15:00.

  • + Mace arrives by 5:57 in 90% of games vs 2% for the role.
  • − Team win rate 50% vs 62% for the standard build.
  • − Metal lost by 15:00 (9434) higher than standard (8941).
THE EXAMPLE YOU ARE READING

illusiveman2024

30.4 OS · 13/08/2026

Open source match ↗

5 received units · includes a constructor
47 metal received · 4830 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Bot Lab0:35Middle 50%: 0:26–0:41 · n=68
Advanced Metal Extractor9:32Middle 50%: 8:48–10:56 · n=54

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