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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 · 19 steps
    1. Mex ×3
    2. Wind ×4
    3. Energy storage
    4. Solar
    5. Hovercraft PlatformHovercraft Platformdone 1:54
    6. GoonGoon
    7. Wind
    8. GoonGoon
    9. Wind
    10. GoonGoon
    11. Construction HovercraftCon hovercraftfor Geo sea
    12. Construction HovercraftCon hovercraft ×3
    13. Mex
    14. Con turret
    15. Mex ×2
    16. Hovercraft PlatformEat Hovercraft Platformreclaimed for its metal
    17. Mex
    18. GuardGuard
    19. ShipyardShipyarddone 4:19 · 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 · 15 steps
    1. Wind
    2. Mex
    3. Wind ×2
    4. Mex
    5. OrcaSubmarinedone 4:38
    6. Wind
    7. GuardGuard
    8. Naval Radar / Sonar TowerNaval Radar / Sonar Tower
    9. Wind ×2
    10. OppressorDestroyerdone 5:25 · typical 5:14
    11. Wind
    12. UrchinUrchin
    13. Wind
    14. GuardGuard
    15. Mex
  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 · 98 steps
    1. Converter
    2. HerringMissile corvette
    3. Converter
    4. HerringMissile corvette
    5. Converter
    6. HerringMissile corvette
    7. Wind
    8. HerringMissile corvette
    9. Wind
    10. HerringMissile corvette
    11. Con turret
    12. Wind
    13. Construction ShipCon ship
    14. Wind
    15. RiptideFrigatedone 6:44 · typical 3:50
    16. Naval Construction Turret
    17. Wind ×2
    18. Construction ShipCon ship
    19. Wind ×2
    20. Death CavalryDeath Cavalry
    21. Con turret
    22. Wind
    23. GuardGuard
    24. Naval Construction Turret
    25. Death CavalryDeath Cavalry
    26. Wind
    27. OrcaSubmarine
    28. Wind
    29. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    30. Wind
    31. OrcaSubmarine
    32. Wind
    33. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 10:07 · typical 9:58
    34. Wind ×2
    35. OppressorDestroyer
    36. Wind ×2
    37. Converter
    38. Wind
    39. OppressorDestroyer
    40. Wind
    41. Converter
    42. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    43. Wind
    44. HerringMissile corvette
    45. Converter
    46. HerringMissile corvette
    47. Wind ×2
    48. HerringMissile corvette
    49. Wind ×2
    50. HerringMissile corvette ×2
    51. Converter
    52. HerringMissile corvette
    53. Wind
    54. Converter
    55. HerringMissile corvette
    56. RiptideFrigate
    57. Wind
    58. Converter
    59. Wind
    60. RiptideFrigate
    61. Wind ×2
    62. RiptideFrigate
    63. Wind ×2
    64. RiptideFrigate
    65. Wind
    66. Con turret
    67. Wind
    68. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    69. Mex
    70. HerringMissile corvette
    71. Wind
    72. HerringMissile corvette ×2
    73. Con turret
    74. Naval Radar / Sonar TowerNaval Radar / Sonar Tower
    75. HerringMissile corvette
    76. OppressorDestroyer
    77. Wind ×3
    78. OppressorDestroyer
    79. Wind ×5
    80. RiptideFrigate
    81. Wind
    82. Naval Construction Turret
    83. Wind ×4
    84. RiptideFrigate
    85. Wind ×3
    86. Converter ×2
    87. RiptideFrigate
    88. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    89. Naval Construction Turret
    90. Converter ×4
    91. Wind
    92. RiptideFrigate
    93. Wind ×4
    94. RiptideFrigate
    95. Wind
    96. Naval Construction Turret
    97. Wind ×2
    98. RiptideFrigate

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is XuunnY's (33 OS, 12/10/2026); 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 2:16 · 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

XuunnY

33.0 OS · 12/10/2026

Open source match ↗

6 received units · includes a constructor
4 metal received · 55459 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

Played most by

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