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Armada Front build order · Supreme Isthmus

Standard economy-first Front play: Bot Lab and Vehicle Plant up almost immediately, Advanced Metal Extractor around 9 minutes, with Blitz, Rocketeer, Pawn and Janus trickling out to hold and push the middle over the full 15 minutes.

#eco · 1186 distinct matches · 145 players · 75% of Armada Front games · team won 62% of 1353 · Recently observed

HOW TO PLAY IT

Key timing: T2 constructor by 7:43

  1. Open mex and wind, drop Bot Lab and Vehicle Plant almost immediately.
  2. Pump Blitz, Rocketeer and Pawn to the coast to stop leaks first.
  3. Add Centurion and Janus once first units are moving up.
  4. Form units into a line pushing toward middle as numbers grow.
  5. Upgrade to Advanced Metal Extractor as the economy transition kicks in.

Phase by phase

TYPICAL OF ITS 1186 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 Bot Lab

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor2Mex
    • Wind Turbine1Wind
    Order
    1. Bot LabBot Lab after 3 mex, 1 winddone ~0:45, middle half 0:35–8:13

    Some games also: Vehicle Plant (41%)

    By 0:28 in all: 2 mex · 1 wind

    The example game in this phase · 1 step
    1. Bot LabBot Labdone 0:20 · typical 0:45
  2. 2

    Bot Lab to 5:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor4Mex
    • Wind Turbine3Wind
    Army
    • Sentry1 Sentry

    Some games also: rocketeer (46%) · con bot (45%) · Lazarus (44%) · tick (42%) · centurion (37%)

    By 5:00 in all: 6 mex · 7 wind

    The example game in this phase · 31 steps
    1. Mex
    2. TickTick ×2
    3. Wind
    4. TickTick
    5. Wind
    6. PawnPawn
    7. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    8. Mex ×2
    9. Construction BotCon bot
    10. Energy storage
    11. LazarusLazarus
    12. Mex
    13. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    14. Mex
    15. RocketeerRocketeer
    16. Wind
    17. RocketeerRocketeer
    18. Mex
    19. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    20. Wind
    21. RocketeerRocketeer
    22. SentrySentry
    23. RocketeerRocketeer
    24. Wind
    25. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    26. SentrySentry
    27. RocketeerRocketeer
    28. Wind
    29. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    30. Mex
    31. RocketeerRocketeer ×10
  3. 3

    5:00 to 10:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor1Mex
    • Wind Turbine14Wind
    Builders
    • Construction Turret2 Con turret
    Army
    • Sentry1 Sentry

    Some games also: energy storage (46%) · rocketeer (40%) · blitz (38%) · pawn (36%) · Lazarus (35%)

    By 10:00 in all: 7 mex · 25 wind · 1 energy storage · 3 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 75 steps
    1. RocketeerRocketeer ×4
    2. SentrySentry
    3. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    4. Con turret
    5. Wind
    6. RocketeerRocketeer
    7. Wind
    8. RocketeerRocketeer
    9. SentrySentry
    10. RocketeerRocketeer
    11. Wind
    12. RocketeerRocketeer
    13. Con turret
    14. Wind
    15. RocketeerRocketeer
    16. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    17. RocketeerRocketeer
    18. Wind
    19. RocketeerRocketeer
    20. Wind
    21. RocketeerRocketeer
    22. Wind
    23. RocketeerRocketeer
    24. Wind
    25. RocketeerRocketeer
    26. Wind
    27. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    28. Wind
    29. RocketeerRocketeer
    30. Wind
    31. RocketeerRocketeer
    32. Wind
    33. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    34. PawnPawn ×11
    35. NettleNettle
    36. PawnPawn
    37. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    38. PawnPawn ×4
    39. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 10:22 · typical 8:53
    40. PawnPawn ×2
    41. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    42. Mex
    43. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    44. Wind
    45. MaceMace
    46. Con turret
    47. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    48. MaceMace
    49. Wind
    50. MaceMace
    51. Mex
    52. Wind
    53. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    54. Wind ×2
    55. Con turret
    56. Wind
    57. Construction BotCon bot
    58. Wind
    59. Construction BotCon bot
    60. Wind
    61. Construction BotCon bot
    62. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    63. Wind
    64. Construction BotCon bot
    65. Wind
    66. Construction BotCon bot
    67. Wind
    68. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    69. Con turret
    70. Construction BotCon bot
    71. Wind
    72. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    73. Con turret ×2
    74. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    75. Con turret

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is TrapCaT's (42 OS, 11/10/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

Nothing regular.

You get

  • Tidal Generator4 Tidal from Pondfirst at 0:18 · in 68% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Geo or Techfirst at 7:17 · in 67% 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

05k10k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

1353 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0033300
2:008442131
3:001621143105
4:002709545333
5:0038551200813
6:00506020801512
7:00629929412450
8:00762437803332
9:00906046094251
10:001066152434952
11:001259157465677
12:001477463056491
13:001737669067192
14:002008975638079
15:002265682958940
WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY

Standard Front play wins more often than Suicide front and produces more metal by 15:00 while losing less of it.

  • + Metal produced reaches 22627 by 15:00, well above Suicide front's 20142.
  • + Own metal lost is 8944 by 15:00, lower than enemy metal destroyed ratio of Suicide front.
  • − First unit lost already at 1:43, showing exposure despite the safer position.
  • − Blitz dominates army share at 25%, leaving fewer Centurion for anti-swarm.
THE EXAMPLE YOU ARE READING

TrapCaT

41.9 OS · 11/10/2026

Open source match ↗

5 received units · includes a constructor
1119 metal received · 67081 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Bot Lab0:45Middle 50%: 0:35–8:13 · n=857
Vehicle Plant0:47Middle 50%: 0:40–0:58 · n=946
Advanced Metal Extractor8:53Middle 50%: 8:02–10:00 · n=1079

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