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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 · 2 steps
    1. Mex
    2. Bot LabBot Labdone 0:26 · 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 · 46 steps
    1. Wind
    2. PawnPawnfor Pond
    3. Wind
    4. PawnPawnfor Pond
    5. Mex
    6. PawnPawnfor Pond
    7. Construction BotCon bot
    8. Mex
    9. Construction BotCon bot
    10. CenturionCenturion
    11. Mex
    12. Wind
    13. LazarusLazarus
    14. RocketeerRocketeer
    15. Mex
    16. Wind
    17. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    18. Con turret
    19. RocketeerRocketeer
    20. Mex
    21. RocketeerRocketeer
    22. LazarusLazarus
    23. RocketeerRocketeer
    24. SentrySentry
    25. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    26. Mex
    27. RocketeerRocketeer
    28. Wind
    29. RocketeerRocketeer
    30. Wind
    31. LazarusLazarus
    32. Wind
    33. RocketeerRocketeer
    34. Wind
    35. RocketeerRocketeer
    36. Wind
    37. RocketeerRocketeer
    38. Wind
    39. RocketeerRocketeer
    40. Wind
    41. RocketeerRocketeer
    42. Wind
    43. Con turret
    44. LazarusLazarus
    45. RocketeerRocketeer
    46. SentrySentry
  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 · 122 steps
    1. SentrySentry
    2. Wind
    3. RocketeerRocketeer
    4. Wind ×2
    5. RocketeerRocketeer
    6. Wind
    7. RocketeerRocketeer
    8. Wind
    9. RocketeerRocketeer
    10. Wind
    11. LazarusLazarus
    12. Wind
    13. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    14. Wind
    15. RocketeerRocketeer
    16. Wind
    17. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    18. Wind
    19. RocketeerRocketeer ×4
    20. LazarusLazarus
    21. RocketeerRocketeer ×5
    22. Wind
    23. LazarusLazarus
    24. Wind
    25. RocketeerRocketeer
    26. Wind
    27. RocketeerRocketeer
    28. Wind
    29. RocketeerRocketeer
    30. Wind
    31. RocketeerRocketeer
    32. Wind
    33. Mex
    34. LazarusLazarus
    35. Construction BotCon bot
    36. Wind
    37. Construction BotCon bot
    38. Wind ×2
    39. Converter
    40. Energy storage
    41. Wind
    42. Converter
    43. Wind ×3
    44. Converter
    45. Wind
    46. PawnPawn
    47. Wind ×2
    48. Converter
    49. PawnPawn
    50. Wind
    51. PawnPawn
    52. Con turret
    53. PawnPawn
    54. Converter
    55. Con turret
    56. PawnPawn ×3
    57. Converter
    58. PawnPawn ×3
    59. Converter
    60. PawnPawn ×4
    61. Converter
    62. PawnPawn
    63. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:39 · typical 8:52
    64. PawnPawn
    65. Con turret
    66. PawnPawn
    67. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    68. PawnPawn
    69. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    70. PawnPawn ×2
    71. Construction BotCon botfor Geo
    72. Wind ×4
    73. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    74. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 10:58 · typical 0:47
    75. Wind ×3
    76. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    77. Wind ×4
    78. Advanced Vehicle PlantAdvanced Vehicle Plantdone 12:12
    79. Wind
    80. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    81. Wind ×3
    82. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    83. Wind ×3
    84. Con turret ×3
    85. Wind ×3
    86. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    87. Wind
    88. GremlinStealth tank ×2
    89. Wind ×2
    90. GremlinStealth tank
    91. Wind ×2
    92. GremlinStealth tank
    93. Wind
    94. Converter
    95. Wind
    96. GremlinStealth tank
    97. Converter
    98. Wind ×2
    99. Converter ×2
    100. Wind ×2
    101. Converter
    102. Wind ×2
    103. JaguarJaguar
    104. Converter
    105. JaguarJaguar
    106. Wind
    107. Converter
    108. JaguarJaguar
    109. Wind ×2
    110. Converter
    111. JaguarJaguar
    112. Wind ×8
    113. JaguarJaguar
    114. Wind
    115. Advanced Radar TowerAdvanced Radar Tower
    116. Wind
    117. Con turret
    118. Wind ×5
    119. Con turret
    120. Wind
    121. AmbassadorAmbassadornot finished by 15:00
    122. Wind ×3

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is [crd]sisa's (45 OS, 23/09/2026); 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

[crd]sisa

45.4 OS · 23/09/2026

Open source match ↗

7 received units · includes a constructor
299 metal received · 41374 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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