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Standard beach sea

Cortex Beach sea build order · Supreme Isthmus

The role's usual play: com goes to sea to build a shipyard around 2 minutes, pumping frigates and destroyers to contest enemy sea entry or hold vision, with an advanced metal extractor around 10 minutes as the transition into the team's…

Usually shipyard first (93%)

#naval #eco · 1589 distinct matches · 207 players · 84% of Cortex Beach sea games · team won 55% of 1793 · Recently observed

HOW TO PLAY IT

Key timing: Shipyard by 1:56

  1. Open 3 mex, then send com to sea to build Shipyard by 1:56.
  2. Add tidal generators, wind and more mex to fund the shipyard.
  3. Pump Riptide first, then Oppressor to contest enemy sea entry.
  4. Get T2 constructor out to start scaling the naval economy.
  5. Transition into Advanced Metal Extractor as the economy phase begins.

Phase by phase

TYPICAL OF ITS 1589 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 Shipyard

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor3Mex
    • Wind Turbine3Windfor allies
    • Wind Turbine2Wind
    • Energy Storage1Energy storage
    Order
    1. ShipyardShipyard after 3 mex, 2 wind, 1 energy storagedone ~1:56, middle half 1:43–2:07

    Some games also: Guard (30%)

    By 1:39 in all: 3 mex · 2 wind · 1 energy storage

    The example game in this phase · 6 steps
    1. Mex ×2
    2. Wind ×2for Air
    3. Wind ×2
    4. Energy storage
    5. Mex
    6. ShipyardShipyarddone 1:50 · typical 1:56
  2. 2

    Shipyard to 5:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor5Mex
    • Tidal Generator2Tidal
    Builders
    • Construction Ship2 Con ship
    Army
    • Riptide2 Frigate
    • Herring1 Missile corvette
    • Oppressor1 Destroyer
    Other
    • Naval Radar / Sonar Tower1 Naval Radar / Sonar Tower

    Some games also: Urchin (46%) · mex (38%) · wind (37%) · submarine (36%) · wind (36%)

    By 5:00 in all: 8 mex · 3 wind · 2 tidal · 1 energy storage

    The example game in this phase · 31 steps
    1. Tidal
    2. Construction ShipCon ship
    3. Tidal ×2
    4. SupporterGunboat
    5. Tidal
    6. Construction ShipCon ship
    7. Wind ×2
    8. Death CavalryDeath Cavalry
    9. Wind ×2
    10. Mex
    11. Wind ×2
    12. RiptideFrigatedone 3:42 · typical 3:50
    13. Converter
    14. Mex
    15. Converter
    16. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    17. Converter
    18. RiptideFrigate
    19. Converter
    20. Mex
    21. Converter ×2
    22. Mex ×2
    23. HerringMissile corvette
    24. Wind ×2
    25. Naval Radar / Sonar TowerNaval Radar / Sonar Tower
    26. SentrySentry
    27. Wind
    28. Naval Radar / Sonar TowerNaval Radar / Sonar Tower
    29. Wind ×2
    30. OppressorDestroyerdone 6:18 · typical 5:15
    31. Wind
  3. 3

    5:00 to 10:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor1Mex
    • Wind Turbine8Wind
    Builders
    • Construction Ship1 Con ship
    • Death Cavalry1 Death Cavalry
    Army
    • Urchin1 Urchin
    • Riptide5 Frigate
    • Oppressor2 Destroyer
    • Herring2 Missile corvette
    Other
    • Naval Radar / Sonar Tower1 Naval Radar / Sonar Tower

    Some games also: Naval Construction Turret (49%) · Guard (47%) · tidal (39%) · Radar Tower (39%) · wind (34%)

    By 10:00 in all: 9 mex · 10 wind · 4 wind · 4 tidal · 1 energy storage · 1 Naval Construction Turret

    The example game in this phase · 79 steps
    1. Wind
    2. Naval Construction Turret
    3. SentrySentry
    4. Wind ×2
    5. Mex
    6. Wind ×4
    7. Mex
    8. SentrySentry
    9. Wind
    10. Energy storage
    11. Naval Radar / Sonar TowerNaval Radar / Sonar Tower
    12. Tidal
    13. HerringMissile corvette
    14. UrchinUrchin
    15. Tidal
    16. SentrySentry
    17. Wind
    18. Tidal
    19. Wind ×2
    20. Tidal
    21. Wind
    22. Tidal
    23. Wind
    24. Tidal
    25. Wind
    26. Tidal
    27. Wind
    28. Mex
    29. Tidal
    30. Wind
    31. Naval Construction Turret
    32. Wind ×3
    33. Naval Construction Turret
    34. Wind
    35. Mex
    36. Energy storage
    37. Tidal ×4
    38. Naval Radar / Sonar TowerNaval Radar / Sonar Tower
    39. Tidal
    40. Energy storage
    41. Tidal ×5
    42. Naval Construction Turret
    43. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:11 · typical 9:58
    44. Naval Radar / Sonar TowerNaval Radar / Sonar Tower
    45. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    46. Con turret
    47. Naval Radar / Sonar TowerNaval Radar / Sonar Tower
    48. Con turret
    49. Advanced ShipyardAdvanced Shipyarddone 10:25
    50. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    51. Naval Radar / Sonar TowerNaval Radar / Sonar Tower
    52. Advanced Construction SubAdvanced Construction Sub
    53. PathfinderPathfinder ×3
    54. Naval Advanced Metal ExtractorNaval Advanced Metal Extractordone 11:15
    55. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    56. PathfinderPathfinder
    57. Tidal ×2
    58. Naval Advanced Metal ExtractorNaval Advanced Metal Extractor
    59. Tidal ×4
    60. Con turret
    61. Tidal
    62. Naval Radar / Sonar TowerNaval Radar / Sonar Tower
    63. Tidal
    64. Con turret
    65. Fusion ReactorFusiondone 12:42
    66. Naval Advanced Metal ExtractorNaval Advanced Metal Extractor
    67. T2 converter
    68. Con turret
    69. Naval Advanced Metal ExtractorNaval Advanced Metal Extractor
    70. Con turret ×2
    71. CitadelAnti-nukedone 14:03
    72. Con turret ×5
    73. Naval Advanced Metal ExtractorNaval Advanced Metal Extractor
    74. TracerTracer
    75. Fusion ReactorFusion
    76. Naval Advanced Metal ExtractorNaval Advanced Metal Extractor
    77. Con turret ×2
    78. Fusion ReactorFusion
    79. Con turret ×5

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is optimusprime3000's (31 OS, 26/09/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

  • Wind Turbine3 Wind to Airfirst at 1:46 · in 77% of games

You get

  • Finch1 Finch from Airfirst at 2:00 · in 80% of games
  • Lazarus1 Lazarus from Geofirst at 2:13 · in 63% of games
  • Hephaestus1 Heavy transport from Airfirst at 2:16 · in 64% of games
  • Construction Bot1 Con bot from Geofirst at 2:26 · in 70% of games
  • Hercules1 Light transport from Airfirst at 2:34 · in 32% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Techfirst at 8:08 · in 89% 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

05k10k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

Own metal lost

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

metal

1793 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0040300
2:0093700
3:00155300
4:002540051
5:003716176101
6:005045487280
7:006492972592
8:00807016651001
9:00967926141532
10:001153637242325
11:001368547443105
12:001625058553875
13:001895168784645
14:002167379245691
15:002456588566520
WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY

Standard Beach sea play has the lowest team win rate of these builds and destroys far less enemy metal early than it loses eco time.

  • + Metal produced climbs to 24945 by 15:00, the highest of all six roles.
  • + Riptide and Oppressor together make 63% of army, a focused naval composition.
  • − Enemy metal destroyed is only 200 by 5:00, barely contesting early sea.
  • − T2 factory only reached in 35% of games, behind other roles' T2 timing.
THE EXAMPLE YOU ARE READING

optimusprime3000

31.2 OS · 26/09/2026

Open source match ↗

5 received units · includes a constructor
48 metal received · 49196 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Shipyard1:56Middle 50%: 1:43–2:07 · n=1790
Riptide3:50Middle 50%: 3:12–4:34 · n=1747
Oppressor5:15Middle 50%: 4:29–6:06 · n=1726
Advanced Metal Extractor9:58Middle 50%: 9:17–10:54 · n=1517

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