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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 · 1552 distinct matches · 206 players · 84% of Cortex Beach sea games · team won 55% of 1756 · 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 1552 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

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

    The example game in this phase · 7 steps
    1. Mex ×2
    2. Wind ×2for Suicide front
    3. Mex
    4. Windfor Suicide front
    5. GuardGuard
    6. Wind ×3for Air
    7. ShipyardShipyarddone 2:00 · 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 · 17 steps
    1. Wind
    2. Construction ShipCon ship
    3. Wind ×2
    4. Construction ShipCon ship
    5. HerringMissile corvette
    6. Mex
    7. SupporterGunboat ×2
    8. OrcaSubmarinedone 3:38
    9. Mex ×2
    10. RiptideFrigatedone 3:57 · typical 3:50
    11. Mex
    12. RiptideFrigate
    13. Mex
    14. GuardGuard
    15. Death CavalryDeath Cavalry
    16. Con turret
    17. RiptideFrigate
  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 (46%) · tidal (40%) · 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 · 104 steps
    1. UrchinUrchinfor Pond
    2. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    3. RiptideFrigate
    4. Naval Radar / Sonar TowerNaval Radar / Sonar Tower
    5. Mex ×2
    6. UrchinUrchin
    7. Wind
    8. Mex ×2
    9. RiptideFrigate
    10. Converter
    11. OppressorDestroyerdone 7:03 · typical 5:15
    12. Energy storage
    13. Tidal
    14. RiptideFrigate
    15. Wind
    16. Naval Radar / Sonar TowerNaval Radar / Sonar Tower
    17. HerringMissile corvette
    18. Wind ×3
    19. RiptideFrigate
    20. Wind ×2
    21. RiptideFrigate
    22. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:07 · typical 9:59
    23. Wind
    24. RiptideFrigate
    25. Wind ×2
    26. OppressorDestroyer
    27. Wind ×2
    28. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    29. Wind
    30. RiptideFrigate ×2
    31. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    32. OppressorDestroyer
    33. Mex
    34. Naval Construction Turret
    35. Death CavalryDeath Cavalry
    36. Construction ShipCon ship ×2
    37. GuardGuard
    38. Mex
    39. Construction ShipCon ship
    40. GuardGuard ×2
    41. Construction ShipCon ship
    42. UrchinUrchin
    43. GuardGuard
    44. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    45. Naval Construction Turret
    46. Tidal
    47. Construction ShipCon ship
    48. Tidal
    49. Amphibious ComplexAmphibious Complexdone 12:40
    50. Tidal ×4
    51. Construction ShipCon ship
    52. Tidal
    53. Naval Radar / Sonar TowerNaval Radar / Sonar Tower
    54. SlingshotSlingshot
    55. SalamanderSalamander
    56. Tidal
    57. SalamanderSalamander
    58. Tidal ×2
    59. Wind
    60. Tidal
    61. SlingshotSlingshot
    62. Tidal
    63. Wind
    64. SalamanderSalamander
    65. Tidal
    66. Wind
    67. Naval Energy Storage
    68. Wind
    69. SalamanderSalamander
    70. Naval Metal Storage
    71. Wind
    72. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    73. Wind
    74. UrchinUrchin
    75. SalamanderSalamander
    76. Naval Construction Turret
    77. Wind ×2
    78. UrchinUrchin
    79. Naval Construction Turret
    80. SlingshotSlingshot
    81. SalamanderSalamander
    82. Wind
    83. HerringMissile corvette
    84. Wind
    85. SalamanderSalamander
    86. SlingshotSlingshot
    87. HerringMissile corvette
    88. SlingshotSlingshot ×2
    89. Wind
    90. SlingshotSlingshot
    91. TrasherTrasher
    92. HerringMissile corvette
    93. TrasherTrasher
    94. HerringMissile corvette
    95. TrasherTrasher
    96. SlingshotSlingshot
    97. HerringMissile corvette
    98. TrasherTrasher ×2
    99. Wind
    100. SlingshotSlingshot
    101. TrasherTrasher
    102. SalamanderSalamander
    103. Wind ×2
    104. SalamanderSalamander

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Tink3r's (34 OS, 06/10/2026); 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 2:15 · in 65% 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 8:09 · 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

1756 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0040300
2:0093700
3:00155300
4:002539051
5:003717176103
6:005044484281
7:006488974599
8:00806916701013
9:00968326041541
10:001153737182343
11:001368547653112
12:001625058753910
13:001895468794652
14:002167279375711
15:002457688436529
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

Tink3r

33.8 OS · 06/10/2026

Open source match ↗

5 received units · includes a constructor
622 metal received · 89500 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=1753
Riptide3:50Middle 50%: 3:12–4:34 · n=1710
Oppressor5:15Middle 50%: 4:28–6:07 · n=1692
Advanced Metal Extractor9:59Middle 50%: 9:17–10:55 · n=1485

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