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Standard air

Armada Air build order · Supreme Isthmus

Builds an Aircraft Plant early, reclaims it for metal, then teches up through an Advanced Metal Extractor and Fusion Reactor while supplying teammates with transports and scouts, settling into Falcons and later Highwinds for the team's air…

Usually transports first (70%)

#eco #air #team support · 150 distinct matches · 68 players · 66% of Armada Air games · team won 42% of 153 · 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 150 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 1:30 · 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 · 31 steps
    1. BlinkScout plane
    2. BlinkScout planefor Tech
    3. Construction AircraftCon aircraft
    4. Wind ×5
    5. Energy storage
    6. OspreyHeavy transportfor Pond
    7. Mex
    8. Construction AircraftCon aircraft
    9. Con turret ×3
    10. Wind
    11. FalconFighter
    12. Converter
    13. Wind
    14. FalconFighter
    15. Wind
    16. FalconFighter
    17. Converter
    18. Wind
    19. StorkLight transportfor Tech
    20. Wind
    21. StorkLight transport
    22. Wind ×2
    23. Aircraft PlantEat Aircraft Plantreclaimed for its metal
    24. Wind
    25. Converter
    26. Wind ×2
    27. Converter
    28. Wind
    29. Converter ×2
    30. Wind
    31. Converter ×2
  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 (48%) · con aircraft (48%) · 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 · 55 steps
    1. Converter ×2
    2. Wind
    3. Converter ×2
    4. Wind
    5. Converter
    6. Wind
    7. Con turret
    8. Wind ×2
    9. Converter
    10. Wind ×2
    11. Converter
    12. Wind ×2
    13. Converter
    14. Wind ×2
    15. Converter
    16. Wind ×2
    17. Converter
    18. Wind
    19. Converter
    20. Wind
    21. Converter
    22. Wind
    23. Converter
    24. Con turret
    25. Wind
    26. Converter
    27. Wind
    28. Converter
    29. Wind ×2
    30. Converter
    31. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 6:55 · typical 7:03
    32. Wind
    33. Converter
    34. NettleNettle ×5
    35. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    36. Aircraft PlantAircraft Plantdone 7:36
    37. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    38. StorkLight transport ×2for Tech
    39. Construction AircraftCon aircraft
    40. Fusion ReactorFusion ×2done 9:12 · typical 11:07
    41. Construction AircraftCon aircraft
    42. Aircraft PlantEat Aircraft Plantreclaimed for its metal
    43. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    44. Con turret ×7
    45. Aircraft PlantAircraft Plantdone 10:34
    46. StormbringerBomber ×5
    47. FalconFighter ×3
    48. StormbringerBomber ×16
    49. FalconFighter ×12
    50. Con turret ×2
    51. FalconFighter ×72
    52. Fusion ReactorFusion
    53. FalconFighter
    54. Aircraft PlantEat Aircraft Plantreclaimed for its metal
    55. Converter ×14

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Dad_The_Speedrunner's (34 OS, 23/09/2026); 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 86% 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 66% of games

You get

  • Wind Turbine3 Wind from Beach sea or Geo seafirst at 1:33 · in 52% of games
  • Wind Turbine3 Wind from Beach sea or Geo sea or Techfirst at 1:40 · in 39% of games
  • Construction Bot1 Con bot from Techfirst at 2:28 · in 69% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Techfirst at 6:04 · 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

153 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0039000
2:0091900
3:00145400
4:002060500
5:0027837473
6:003578148146
7:004959241250
8:006685337302
9:008662391365
10:0011009451489
11:0013467619584
12:0016151838708
13:00190351234935
14:002181516071450
15:002484619852270
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

Dad_The_Speedrunner

34.4 OS · 23/09/2026

Open source match ↗

3 received units · includes a constructor
813 metal received · 89951 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=148
Advanced Metal Extractor7:03Middle 50%: 6:36–7:38 · n=144
Fusion Reactor11:07Middle 50%: 10:01–12:25 · n=87

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