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Armada Air build order · Supreme Isthmus

Economy-first air play: Aircraft Plant at 1:30, Advanced Metal Extractor around 7:00, Fusion Reactor just after 11:00, with transports and scouts made for allies before settling into Falcon fighters for the rest of the game.

Usually transports first (69%)

#air #team support · 155 distinct matches · 70 players · 66% of Armada Air games · team won 41% of 158 · Recently observed

HOW TO PLAY IT

Key timing: Aircraft Plant by 1:32

  1. Take mex and wind while queuing the aircraft plant immediately.
  2. Get the aircraft plant up before 1:44 to start producing early.
  3. Build an advanced mex to keep economy scaling for T2.
  4. Send transports and scouts to allies as soon as they're ready.
  5. Add a fusion reactor and shift into fighters then Liche bombers.

Phase by phase

TYPICAL OF ITS 155 GAMES
  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 Aircraft Plant

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor3Mex
    • Wind Turbine5Wind
    • Energy Storage1Energy storage
    Order
    1. Aircraft PlantAircraft Plant after 3 mex, 5 wind, 1 energy storagedone ~1:30, middle half 1:22–1:41

    By 1:12 in all: 3 mex · 5 wind · 1 energy storage

    The example game in this phase · 3 steps
    1. Mex ×3
    2. Wind ×6
    3. Aircraft PlantAircraft Plantdone 1:27 · typical 1:30
  2. 2

    Aircraft Plant to 5:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor1Mex
    • Wind Turbine12Wind
    Builders
    • Construction Turret2 Con turret
    • Construction Aircraft1 Con aircraft
    Army
    • Falcon6 Fighter
    • Blink2 Scout plane for allies
    • Stork2 Light transport for allies
    • Blink1 Scout plane
    • Osprey1 Heavy transport for allies

    Some games also: light transport (33%) · banshee (33%)

    By 5:00 in all: 4 mex · 17 wind · 1 energy storage · 2 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 24 steps
    1. BlinkScout plane ×2for Geo sea
    2. Construction AircraftCon aircraft
    3. Wind ×2
    4. Construction AircraftCon aircraft
    5. Con turret
    6. Wind ×2
    7. FalconFighter
    8. Converter
    9. Wind ×2
    10. FalconFighter
    11. Wind
    12. FalconFighter
    13. Converter
    14. Wind
    15. FalconFighter ×2
    16. Wind
    17. FalconFighter
    18. StorkLight transport ×2for Tech
    19. Converter
    20. Wind
    21. FalconFighter
    22. Wind
    23. FalconFighter ×2
    24. Wind
  3. 3

    5:00 to 10:00

    Economy
    • Wind Turbine34Wind
    • Energy Converter8Converter
    Order
    1. Aircraft PlantEat Aircraft Plant in 80% of games
    Builders
    • Construction Turret4 Con turret
    Army
    • Falcon10 Fighter

    Some games also: Aircraft Plant (49%) · con aircraft (47%) · fusion (32%)

    By 10:00 in all: 4 mex · 50 wind · 9 converter · 1 energy storage · 6 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 172 steps
    1. Wind ×2
    2. Converter
    3. Aircraft PlantEat Aircraft Plantreclaimed for its metal
    4. Con turret
    5. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 6:11 · typical 7:03
    6. Wind
    7. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    8. Energy storage
    9. Wind
    10. Converter
    11. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    12. Wind
    13. Converter
    14. Wind ×2
    15. Aircraft PlantAircraft Plantdone 7:19
    16. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    17. StorkLight transport
    18. Wind
    19. Converter
    20. Con turret
    21. FalconFighter
    22. Con turret ×2
    23. FalconFighter
    24. Converter
    25. FalconFighter ×3
    26. Bot LabBot Labdone 9:10
    27. Converter
    28. Wind ×2
    29. Converter
    30. FalconFighter
    31. Construction BotCon bot
    32. FalconFighter
    33. Converter
    34. Construction BotCon bot
    35. FalconFighter
    36. Wind
    37. Converter
    38. FalconFighter
    39. Construction BotCon bot
    40. FalconFighter
    41. Converter
    42. Construction BotCon bot
    43. Wind
    44. FalconFighter
    45. Construction BotCon bot
    46. FalconFighter
    47. Wind ×3
    48. Converter
    49. Wind
    50. FalconFighter
    51. Wind
    52. Construction BotCon bot
    53. Wind ×3
    54. FalconFighter
    55. Wind ×3
    56. Converter
    57. Wind ×3
    58. FalconFighter
    59. Wind ×2
    60. Fusion ReactorFusiondone 14:14 · typical 11:07
    61. Wind
    62. Converter
    63. Wind
    64. FalconFighter
    65. Wind ×3
    66. FalconFighter
    67. Wind ×3
    68. FalconFighter
    69. Wind
    70. FalconFighter
    71. Wind ×4
    72. FalconFighter
    73. Wind ×3
    74. FalconFighter
    75. Wind ×2
    76. FalconFighter
    77. Wind ×3
    78. FalconFighter
    79. Wind ×6
    80. Solar
    81. FalconFighter
    82. Solar
    83. Wind ×2
    84. FalconFighter
    85. Wind
    86. Solar
    87. Wind
    88. FalconFighter
    89. Solar
    90. Wind ×2
    91. FalconFighter
    92. Wind
    93. Solar
    94. FalconFighter
    95. Wind ×2
    96. Solar
    97. Wind
    98. FalconFighter
    99. Wind
    100. FalconFighter
    101. Wind
    102. Solar
    103. FalconFighter
    104. Wind ×2
    105. FalconFighter
    106. Wind
    107. Solar
    108. FalconFighter
    109. Wind ×3
    110. Solar
    111. Converter
    112. FalconFighter
    113. Wind
    114. FalconFighter
    115. Wind ×3
    116. Converter
    117. FalconFighter
    118. Wind
    119. Con turret
    120. FalconFighter
    121. Converter
    122. Wind ×3
    123. FalconFighter ×2
    124. Wind
    125. Converter
    126. Wind ×3
    127. Con turret
    128. Wind
    129. Converter
    130. Con turret
    131. Wind
    132. Con turret
    133. Wind ×2
    134. Con turret
    135. Converter
    136. Wind ×2
    137. Con turret
    138. Wind ×2
    139. Bot LabEat Bot Labreclaimed for its metal
    140. Converter
    141. Wind
    142. Con turret
    143. Wind
    144. Con turret
    145. Wind ×2
    146. T2 converter
    147. BlinkScout plane ×2
    148. Converter
    149. BlinkScout plane
    150. Wind
    151. BlinkScout plane ×3
    152. Wind
    153. BlinkScout plane
    154. Wind
    155. BlinkScout plane
    156. Converter
    157. BlinkScout plane
    158. Wind ×3
    159. BlinkScout plane
    160. Wind
    161. Converter
    162. Wind
    163. T2 converter
    164. BlinkScout plane ×2
    165. Wind ×2
    166. BlinkScout plane
    167. Wind
    168. Converter
    169. Wind ×2
    170. BlinkScout plane
    171. Wind
    172. BlinkScout plane

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is duoinvasion's (30 OS, 06/09/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

  • Blink2 Scout plane to Geo sea or Beach seafirst at 1:50 · in 87% of games
  • Stork3 Light transport to Tech or Geo sea or Beach seafirst at 2:09 · in 90% of games
  • Osprey1 Heavy transport to Beach sea or Pond or Techfirst at 2:26 · in 64% of games

You get

  • Wind Turbine3 Wind from Beach sea or Geo seafirst at 1:35 · in 52% of games
  • Wind Turbine3 Wind from Beach sea or Geo sea or Techfirst at 1:40 · in 37% of games
  • Construction Bot1 Con bot from Techfirst at 2:27 · in 69% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Techfirst at 6:03 · in 88% of games

How it plays out

Typical game of this build, running totals by minute

Metal produced

010k20k30k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

Enemy metal destroyed

01k2k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

Own metal lost

01k2k3k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

158 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0039000
2:0092000
3:00145500
4:002055510
5:0027837473
6:003588151146
7:004967241235
8:006709320301
9:008719382365
10:0011017447460
11:0013505610568
12:0016214794708
13:00191851233911
14:002188515911437
15:002501219602255
WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY

Standard air play wins less than half its games while destroying far less metal than it loses by 15:00.

  • + Aircraft plant lands consistently by 1:44, keeping tempo on schedule.
  • − Enemy metal destroyed (2664) trails own metal lost (2351) by 15:00.
THE EXAMPLE YOU ARE READING

duoinvasion

30.1 OS · 06/09/2026

Open source match ↗

2 received units · includes a constructor
308 metal received · 46052 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Aircraft Plant1:30Middle 50%: 1:22–1:41 · n=153
Advanced Metal Extractor7:03Middle 50%: 6:35–7:36 · n=149
Fusion Reactor11:07Middle 50%: 9:59–12:32 · n=91

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