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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 · 1591 distinct matches · 207 players · 84% of Cortex Beach sea games · team won 55% of 1795 · 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 1591 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 · 8 steps
    1. Mex ×2
    2. Windfor Air
    3. Mex
    4. Wind ×2for Air
    5. Solar
    6. Energy storage
    7. Wind
    8. ShipyardShipyarddone 1:57 · 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 · 21 steps
    1. HerringMissile corvette
    2. Construction ShipCon ship ×2
    3. RiptideFrigatedone 3:09 · typical 3:50
    4. Mex
    5. Naval Construction Turret
    6. Mex ×2
    7. RiptideFrigate
    8. Naval Radar / Sonar TowerNaval Radar / Sonar Tower
    9. Mex
    10. SlingshotSlingshot
    11. Wind
    12. OrcaSubmarinedone 4:51
    13. Naval Radar / Sonar TowerNaval Radar / Sonar Tower
    14. Wind
    15. Mex
    16. Naval Radar / Sonar TowerNaval Radar / Sonar Tower
    17. Mex
    18. Wind
    19. Mex
    20. OppressorDestroyerdone 6:08 · typical 5:14
    21. UrchinUrchin
  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 · 91 steps
    1. GuardGuard
    2. Wind
    3. GuardGuard
    4. Wind
    5. GuardGuard ×2
    6. Wind
    7. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    8. Naval Radar / Sonar TowerNaval Radar / Sonar Tower
    9. UrchinUrchin
    10. Converter
    11. ThistleThistle
    12. Death CavalryDeath Cavalry
    13. RiptideFrigate
    14. GuardGuard
    15. RiptideFrigate
    16. UrchinUrchin
    17. OppressorDestroyer
    18. UrchinUrchin
    19. Wind
    20. HerringMissile corvette
    21. Wind
    22. OrcaSubmarine
    23. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:39
    24. Wind
    25. Tidal
    26. OppressorDestroyer
    27. Naval Radar / Sonar TowerNaval Radar / Sonar Tower
    28. Wind
    29. Tidal
    30. Naval Radar / Sonar TowerNaval Radar / Sonar Tower ×2
    31. Wind
    32. Tidal ×2
    33. Wind
    34. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    35. Tidal
    36. Death CavalryDeath Cavalry
    37. Wind
    38. Naval Radar / Sonar TowerNaval Radar / Sonar Tower
    39. Tidal
    40. Wind
    41. Death CavalryDeath Cavalry
    42. Tidal
    43. Wind
    44. RiptideFrigate
    45. Tidal
    46. RiptideFrigate
    47. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    48. Wind
    49. Construction ShipCon ship
    50. Tidal
    51. RiptideFrigate
    52. Wind
    53. Tidal
    54. RiptideFrigate
    55. Wind
    56. OppressorDestroyer
    57. Tidal
    58. Wind
    59. Tidal
    60. HerringMissile corvette
    61. Death CavalryDeath Cavalry
    62. Tidal
    63. Wind
    64. Construction ShipCon ship
    65. Death CavalryDeath Cavalry
    66. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    67. Tidal
    68. Wind
    69. Construction ShipCon ship
    70. OppressorDestroyer
    71. Tidal
    72. Naval Construction Turret
    73. OppressorDestroyer
    74. Tidal
    75. Naval Construction Turret ×2
    76. Tidal
    77. Death CavalryDeath Cavalry
    78. Naval Construction Turret ×2
    79. Tidal
    80. Death CavalryDeath Cavalry
    81. Naval Construction Turret
    82. Wind
    83. Death CavalryDeath Cavalry ×2
    84. Advanced ShipyardAdvanced Shipyardnot finished by 15:00
    85. Tidal
    86. Death CavalryDeath Cavalry
    87. Wind
    88. Tidal
    89. Wind
    90. Tidal
    91. OppressorDestroyer

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Zetherite's (30 OS, 05/08/2026); 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

1795 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0040300
2:0093700
3:00155300
4:002540051
5:003717176101
6:005049487280
7:006492975592
8:00807016651001
9:00967926141532
10:001153637242325
11:001368547443105
12:001625058553871
13:001895168784629
14:002167379245680
15:002456588566501
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

Zetherite

30.2 OS · 05/08/2026

Open source match ↗

5 received units · includes a constructor
262 metal received · 34216 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=1792
Riptide3:50Middle 50%: 3:12–4:34 · n=1749
Oppressor5:14Middle 50%: 4:29–6:06 · n=1728
Advanced Metal Extractor9:58Middle 50%: 9:17–10:54 · n=1519

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