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Mauser artillery

Armada Geo build order · Supreme Isthmus

Geo rushes an Advanced Vehicle Plant and brings Mauser artillery to the middle from around 5:32, well ahead of the normal T2 unit timing, shelling the front before shifting into Starlights and Jaguars.

#artillery #t2 #rush · 48 distinct matches · 21 players · 3% of Armada Geo games · team won 57% of 49 · Recently observed

THE CATCH, AND WHAT COMES WITH IT
  • MauserT2 vehicle artillery from 5:32 · 3% of role by thenFrom the Advanced Vehicle Plant. Only 3% of Geo games have it by then; others who build it get it around 8:15
  • Advanced Vehicle PlantAdvanced Vehicle Plant in 82%6% of all Geo games by then
  • Vehicle PlantVehicle Plant in 82%15% of all Geo games by then
  • UmbraJammer in 49%2% of all Geo games by then

Where those units first fight, in 49 games with kill data: in the middle 84%, on their own side 16%.

Those units destroy a typical 3,963 metal of enemy units by 15:00.

Then transitions into Jaguar (24% of army), Starlight (22% of army).

HOW TO PLAY IT

Key timing: Mauser out by 5:58

  1. Open mex and geo like normal, but rush Vehicle Plant by 3:58.
  2. Push straight into Advanced Vehicle Plant well ahead of the norm.
  3. Field Mauser mobile arty from the T2 plant to shell middle early.
  4. Add jammer support to protect the arty push.
  5. Ease into Advanced Geothermal and the usual Starlight/Jaguar transition.

Phase by phase

TYPICAL OF ITS 48 GAMES · AGAINST STANDARD GEO
  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 4
PLAY THE OPENING

Follow the example game's first 6:33 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 Turbine3Wind
    Order
    1. Bot LabBot Lab after 3 mex, 3 winddone ~1:13, middle half 0:54–1:21

    By 0:57 in all: 3 mex · 3 wind

    The example game in this phase · 3 steps
    1. Mex ×2
    2. Wind ×4
    3. Bot LabBot Labdone 0:57 · typical 1:13
  2. 2

    Bot Lab to Vehicle Plant

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor1Mex
    • Wind Turbine2Wind
    • Energy Converter4Converter
    • Energy Storage1Energy storage
    Order
    1. Geothermal PowerplantGeo after 4 mex, 5 wind, 1 energy storage
    2. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plant after 4 mex, 6 wind, 4 converterdone ~4:19, middle half 4:03–4:49
    Builders
    • Construction Turret3 Con turret
    • Lazarus4 Lazarus
    • Construction Bot2 Con bot
    • Construction Bot1 Con bot for allies
    • Lazarus1 Lazarus for allies

    By 4:07 in all: 4 mex · 6 wind · 1 geo · 4 converter · 1 energy storage · 3 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 17 steps
    1. Wind
    2. TickTick ×4
    3. LazarusLazarus ×2
    4. Construction BotCon bot
    5. PawnPawn ×7
    6. Construction BotCon bot
    7. Energy storage
    8. LazarusLazarus
    9. Mex
    10. Construction BotCon bot
    11. LazarusLazarus ×2
    12. Geothermal PowerplantGeodone 3:57 · typical 3:16
    13. Mex
    14. LazarusLazarus
    15. Con turret ×4
    16. Converter ×8
    17. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 5:03 · typical 4:19
  3. 3

    Vehicle Plant to T2 vehicle artillery

    Economy
    • Energy Converter2Converter−4 vs standard
    Order
    1. Advanced Vehicle PlantAdvanced Vehicle Plant after 4 mex, 6 wind, 6 converter
    2. MauserT2 vehicle artillery after 4 mex, 6 wind, 7 converter
    Builders
    • Construction Vehicle1 Con vehicle

    The standard build makes here, this one skips: 2 con turret

    By 5:32 in all: 4 mex · 6 wind (standard 8) · 1 geo · 7 converter (standard 10) · 1 energy storage · 3 con turret (standard 6)

    The example game in this phase · 5 steps
    1. Converter ×3
    2. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    3. Mex
    4. Advanced Vehicle PlantAdvanced Vehicle Plantdone 6:11 · typical 5:21
    5. MauserMauserdone 6:17
  4. 4

    T2 vehicle artillery to 10:00

    Economy
    • Wind Turbine5Wind−4 vs standard
    Builders
    • Construction Turret2 Con turret
    • Advanced Construction Vehicle1 T2 con vehicle
    Army
    • Mauser4 Mauser +4 vs standard
    • Prophet1 Radar vehicle

    Some games also: jammer (49%) · T2 con vehicle for allies (49%) · Advanced Geothermal Powerplant (41%) · converter (39%) · Jaguar (35%)

    The standard build makes here, this one skips: 6 converter · 2 Starlight

    By 10:00 in all: 4 mex · 12 wind (standard 20) · 1 geo · 1 Advanced Geothermal Powerplant · 9 converter (standard 16) · 1 energy storage

    The example game in this phase · 59 steps
    1. MauserMauser ×2
    2. ShredderShredderdone 7:01
    3. SentrySentry
    4. Converter ×2
    5. MauserMauser
    6. Converter ×2
    7. MauserMauser ×2
    8. AmbassadorAmbassadordone 8:36
    9. Advanced Construction VehicleT2 con vehicle
    10. Converter
    11. Wind ×2
    12. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:44 · typical 7:19
    13. Converter
    14. Wind ×2
    15. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    16. Wind ×7
    17. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    18. Wind ×8
    19. Converter
    20. Con turret
    21. Converter
    22. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    23. Wind
    24. PrudePrudedone 12:11
    25. Wind
    26. Con turret ×2
    27. Metal storage
    28. Wind ×3
    29. StarlightStarlightdone 12:33 · typical 11:11
    30. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexfor Front
    31. Energy storage
    32. Wind
    33. StarlightStarlight
    34. Wind ×2
    35. UmbraJammer
    36. Wind ×2
    37. ProphetRadar vehicle
    38. Wind ×2
    39. StarlightStarlight
    40. Wind ×12
    41. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    42. Wind
    43. StarlightStarlight
    44. Energy storage
    45. Wind ×2
    46. StarlightStarlight
    47. Wind
    48. Bot LabBot Labdone 14:40
    49. Con turret
    50. Wind
    51. Advanced Construction VehicleT2 con vehicle
    52. Wind
    53. CenturionCenturion
    54. Wind ×2
    55. ConsulConsul
    56. Wind
    57. CenturionCenturion
    58. ConsulConsul
    59. Wind

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is UsurpeR's (43 OS, 26/09/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

  • Lazarus1 Lazarus to Beach seafirst at 2:16 · in 55% of games
  • Construction Bot1 Con bot to Beach sea or Pondfirst at 2:47 · in 65% of games
  • Advanced Construction Vehicle2 T2 con vehicle to Front or Suicide frontfirst at 9:05 · in 57% of games

You get

  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Techfirst at 5:16 · in 35% 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

49 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
1:003803330000
2:008858280000
3:00154515280000
4:00269627080000
5:00450237290000
6:00636557170000
7:0074988132201000
8:00910111502105004221
9:001140614501184851440130
10:00137041742223556271023320
11:001643920396345820751322790
12:0018726232954695398218351910
13:0020845260935875608620353295
14:0023132289887142849333004690
15:002553131571105301037446356061
WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY

Matched the standard build's win rate while destroying more enemy metal and losing much less of its own by 15:00.

  • + Destroyed 10530 enemy metal by 15:00 vs 9875 standard.
  • + Lost only 4760 own metal by 15:00 vs 6281 standard.
  • − Metal production fell behind standard by 15:00 (27371 vs 31426).
THE EXAMPLE YOU ARE READING

UsurpeR

43.3 OS · 26/09/2026

Open source match ↗

9 received units · includes a constructor
1711 metal received · 46773 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Bot Lab1:13Middle 50%: 0:54–1:21 · n=49
Geothermal Powerplant3:16Middle 50%: 3:00–3:32 · n=49
Vehicle Plant4:19Middle 50%: 4:03–4:49 · n=49
Advanced Vehicle Plant5:21Middle 50%: 5:07–6:05 · n=49
Advanced Metal Extractor7:19Middle 50%: 6:22–8:19 · n=48
Advanced Geothermal Powerplant10:07Middle 50%: 9:02–10:52 · n=37
Starlight11:11Middle 50%: 10:25–12:03 · n=31

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