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Standard front

Standard economy-first Front play: Bot Lab and Vehicle Plant almost immediately, Advanced Metal Extractor around 9 minutes, with a mixed T1 army of Blitz, Rocketeer, Pawn and Janus sent to hold the wider gap and then middle.

#eco · 935 distinct matches · 127 players · 75% of Armada Front games · team won 63% of 1063 · Recently observed

HOW TO PLAY IT

Key timing: Vehicle Plant by 0:47

  1. Open 3 mex then Bot Lab and Vehicle Plant almost together.
  2. Layer wind while both labs start producing.
  3. Send early units to coast first to stop leaks, not middle.
  4. Add Construction Turrets as "Blitz", "Rocketeer", "Janus" mix builds up.
  5. Transition into Advanced Metal Extractor once T2 con is out.

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 Bot Lab

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor2Mex
    • Wind Turbine1Wind
    Order
    1. Bot LabBot Lab after 3 mex, 1 winddone ~0:45, middle half 0:35–8:30

    Some games also: Vehicle Plant (41%)

    By 0:28 in all: 2 mex · 1 wind

    The example game in this phase · 3 steps
    1. Mex ×3
    2. Wind
    3. Bot LabBot Labdone 0:51 · 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 (40%) · centurion (37%)

    By 5:00 in all: 6 mex · 7 wind

    The example game in this phase · 18 steps
    1. TickTick ×3
    2. LazarusLazarus ×2
    3. CenturionCenturion
    4. Construction BotCon bot ×3
    5. CenturionCenturion
    6. Mex
    7. RocketeerRocketeer ×4
    8. Mex
    9. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    10. LazarusLazarus
    11. Mex
    12. Construction BotCon bot
    13. CenturionCenturion
    14. RocketeerRocketeer ×7
    15. LazarusLazarus
    16. Construction BotCon bot
    17. CenturionCenturion
    18. RocketeerRocketeer ×4
  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%) · blitz (39%) · rocketeer (39%) · 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 · 105 steps
    1. RocketeerRocketeer
    2. Mex
    3. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    4. LazarusLazarus
    5. Construction BotCon bot
    6. Bot LabBot Labnot finished by 15:00
    7. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    8. CenturionCenturion
    9. RocketeerRocketeer ×7
    10. LazarusLazarus
    11. Construction BotCon bot
    12. CenturionCenturion
    13. RocketeerRocketeer
    14. Mex
    15. RocketeerRocketeer ×6
    16. LazarusLazarus
    17. Construction BotCon bot
    18. CenturionCenturion
    19. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    20. SentrySentry
    21. RocketeerRocketeer ×5
    22. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:32 · typical 8:52
    23. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    24. LazarusLazarus
    25. Construction BotCon bot
    26. RocketeerRocketeer
    27. Wind
    28. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    29. Wind ×4
    30. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    31. SentrySentry
    32. Wind ×4
    33. Con turret
    34. Construction BotCon bot
    35. Wind ×2
    36. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    37. Wind ×2
    38. Construction BotCon bot
    39. Wind
    40. Con turret
    41. SentrySentry
    42. Wind
    43. PawnPawn
    44. SentrySentry
    45. Wind
    46. PawnPawn
    47. Wind
    48. PawnPawn ×2
    49. Wind
    50. PawnPawn ×2
    51. SentrySentry
    52. Wind
    53. PawnPawn ×2
    54. Wind
    55. PawnPawn ×2
    56. Wind
    57. LazarusLazarus
    58. Wind ×2
    59. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    60. LazarusLazarus
    61. Wind ×2
    62. PawnPawn
    63. Wind
    64. PawnPawn
    65. Wind ×2
    66. PawnPawn
    67. Wind ×2
    68. PawnPawn
    69. Wind ×2
    70. PawnPawn
    71. Wind
    72. PawnPawn
    73. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    74. Wind
    75. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    76. Wind
    77. PawnPawn
    78. Wind
    79. PawnPawn ×2
    80. Wind
    81. PawnPawn
    82. Wind
    83. PawnPawn
    84. Wind
    85. PawnPawn
    86. RattlesnakeRattlesnakedone 13:44
    87. Wind ×2
    88. PawnPawn
    89. Wind ×2
    90. PawnPawn
    91. Energy storage
    92. Wind
    93. PawnPawn
    94. Wind ×2
    95. PawnPawn
    96. Wind
    97. PawnPawn
    98. Wind ×3
    99. PawnPawn
    100. Wind ×3
    101. Con turret
    102. PawnPawn
    103. Con turret
    104. PawnPawn ×2
    105. Con turret

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is The_Dwarf's (39 OS, 29/08/2026); 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

1063 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0033300
2:008462131
3:001624140105
4:002712540333
5:0038681188813
6:00507620991526
7:00631429842459
8:00766238713365
9:00908746324312
10:001066653085060
11:001260858195701
12:001481563136521
13:001744069817256
14:002018375848093
15:002263083948939
WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY

Standard Front play wins more often than suicide front and produces more metal by 15:00, reflecting its safer positioning.

  • + Metal produced reaches 22219 by 15:00, above suicide front's 19882
  • + Own losses of 8949 stay under enemy metal destroyed's near-equal 8347
  • − First unit lost by 1:44 shows exposure even from the safer side
  • − Wider gap to defend demands disciplined coast-then-mid unit movement
THE EXAMPLE YOU ARE READING

The_Dwarf

38.8 OS · 29/08/2026

Open source match ↗

5 received units · includes a constructor
179 metal received · 28140 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Bot Lab0:45Middle 50%: 0:35–8:30 · n=670
Vehicle Plant0:47Middle 50%: 0:37–0:59 · n=753
Advanced Metal Extractor8:52Middle 50%: 8:00–10:03 · n=845

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