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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 (94%)

#naval #eco · 935 distinct matches · 113 players · 83% of Cortex Beach sea games · team won 54% of 1009 · Recently observed

HOW TO PLAY IT

Key timing: Shipyard by 1:57

  1. Grab mex and tidal, push com to sea to build shipyard.
  2. Finish shipyard and start pumping frigate and destroyer.
  3. Field first frigate to contest enemy sea entry or hold vision.
  4. Add destroyer to the mix as the fight for sea develops.
  5. Shift into advanced metal extractor as the economy transition.

Phase by phase

TYPICAL OF ITS 935 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 Turbine2Windfor allies
    • Wind Turbine2Wind
    • Energy Storage1Energy storage
    Order
    1. ShipyardShipyard after 3 mex, 2 wind, 1 energy storagedone ~1:56, middle half 1:41–2:07

    Some games also: tidal (31%)

    By 1:40 in all: 3 mex · 2 wind · 1 energy storage

    The example game in this phase · 4 steps
    1. Mex ×3
    2. Tidalfor Air
    3. Tidal ×3
    4. ShipyardShipyarddone 1:42 · 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%) · wind (39%) · submarine (38%) · mex (36%) · gunboat (36%)

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

    The example game in this phase · 22 steps
    1. Tidal
    2. Construction ShipCon ship
    3. Tidal
    4. Construction ShipCon ship ×2
    5. Mex
    6. RiptideFrigatedone 2:56 · typical 3:49
    7. Mex
    8. Con turret
    9. Mex ×2
    10. RiptideFrigate
    11. Naval Construction Turret
    12. RiptideFrigate
    13. Mex
    14. UrchinUrchin
    15. Wind
    16. Naval Radar / Sonar TowerNaval Radar / Sonar Tower
    17. Wind
    18. UrchinUrchin
    19. Wind ×2
    20. Naval Construction Turret
    21. OppressorDestroyerdone 5:45 · typical 5:12
    22. Wind ×3
  3. 3

    5:00 to 10:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor1Mex
    • Wind Turbine9Wind
    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%) · Radar Tower (40%) · tidal (40%) · con turret (35%)

    By 10:00 in all: 9 mex · 11 wind · 4 wind · 4 tidal · 1 energy storage · 1 Naval Construction Turret

    The example game in this phase · 76 steps
    1. Wind ×3
    2. Naval Energy Converter ×2
    3. Converter
    4. Naval Energy Converter
    5. Converter
    6. HerringMissile corvette
    7. UrchinUrchin
    8. Converter
    9. RiptideFrigate
    10. Naval Construction Turret
    11. RiptideFrigate
    12. Naval Radar / Sonar TowerNaval Radar / Sonar Tower
    13. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    14. RiptideFrigate
    15. OppressorDestroyer
    16. HerringMissile corvette
    17. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 8:43 · typical 9:58
    18. HerringMissile corvette
    19. Tidal ×2
    20. RiptideFrigate
    21. Tidal
    22. Naval Radar / Sonar TowerNaval Radar / Sonar Tower
    23. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    24. Tidal ×2
    25. JellyfishJellyfish
    26. Tidal
    27. RiptideFrigate
    28. Naval Construction Turret
    29. Tidal
    30. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    31. Tidal ×2
    32. RiptideFrigate
    33. Mex
    34. GuardGuard
    35. Tidal
    36. Mex
    37. ThistleThistle
    38. Naval Construction Turret
    39. OppressorDestroyer
    40. Naval Energy Converter
    41. GuardGuard
    42. Naval Construction Turret
    43. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    44. Naval Construction Turret
    45. Advanced ShipyardAdvanced Shipyarddone 12:01
    46. HerringMissile corvette
    47. RiptideFrigate
    48. Mex ×2
    49. Advanced Construction SubAdvanced Construction Sub
    50. RiptideFrigate
    51. Bot LabBot Labdone 12:23
    52. PathfinderPathfinder
    53. RiptideFrigate
    54. PathfinderPathfinder
    55. OppressorDestroyer
    56. AggravatorAggravator
    57. PathfinderPathfinder
    58. AggravatorAggravator
    59. Dragon's MawDragon's Maw
    60. HerringMissile corvette
    61. Naval Advanced Metal ExtractorNaval Advanced Metal Extractordone 13:22
    62. OasisOasis
    63. Tidal ×3
    64. Naval Advanced Metal ExtractorNaval Advanced Metal Extractor
    65. Tidal ×2
    66. PathfinderPathfinder
    67. Dragon's MawDragon's Maw
    68. Tidal
    69. PathfinderPathfinder
    70. Tidal ×4
    71. Arrow StormAnti-air shipdone 14:39
    72. Tidal
    73. Naval Advanced Metal ExtractorNaval Advanced Metal Extractor
    74. Tidal
    75. Arrow StormAnti-air ship
    76. Tidal ×3

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Kbot_my_Ahole's (37 OS, 08/10/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

  • Wind Turbine3 Wind to Airfirst at 1:52 · in 78% of games

You get

  • Finch1 Finch from Airfirst at 1:59 · in 82% of games
  • Lazarus1 Lazarus from Geofirst at 2:14 · in 63% of games
  • Hephaestus1 Heavy transport from Airfirst at 2:16 · in 67% of games
  • Construction Bot1 Con bot from Geofirst at 2:27 · in 70% of games
  • Hercules1 Light transport from Airfirst at 2:32 · in 32% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Techfirst at 8:09 · 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

1009 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0040300
2:0093700
3:00156900
4:002538051
5:003715197100
6:005041540261
7:0064861074590
8:00805618061014
9:00967627771581
10:001157039202310
11:001375549693051
12:001628260643825
13:001909071214611
14:002186582015711
15:002489893256582
WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY

Standard sea-first play for Beach sea, with the lowest team win rate of the roles shown at 54% and a big gap in metal destroyed vs lost by 15:00.

  • + Metal produced hits 24892 by 15:00, second highest overall shown.
  • − Enemy metal destroyed only 9261 by 15:00 against own losses of 6529, a tight margin for a sea role.
THE EXAMPLE YOU ARE READING

Kbot_my_Ahole

36.9 OS · 08/10/2026

Open source match ↗

6 received units · includes a constructor
43 metal received · 19428 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Shipyard1:56Middle 50%: 1:41–2:07 · n=1007
Riptide3:49Middle 50%: 3:15–4:32 · n=988
Oppressor5:12Middle 50%: 4:22–6:07 · n=970
Advanced Metal Extractor9:58Middle 50%: 9:17–10:54 · n=853

Played most by

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