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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 · 973 distinct matches · 130 players · 74% of Armada Front games · team won 63% of 1106 · 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 973 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 0:35–8:46

    Some games also: Vehicle Plant (42%)

    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 (45%) · con bot (44%) · Lazarus (43%) · tick (40%) · centurion (36%)

    By 5:00 in all: 6 mex · 7 wind

    The example game in this phase · 44 steps
    1. Wind
    2. PawnPawn
    3. Wind
    4. PawnPawn
    5. Mex ×2
    6. PawnPawn
    7. Wind
    8. Construction BotCon bot
    9. Wind
    10. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    11. CenturionCenturion
    12. Mex
    13. Wind
    14. RocketeerRocketeer
    15. Wind
    16. Mex
    17. Wind
    18. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    19. Con turret
    20. Mex
    21. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    22. SentrySentry
    23. LazarusLazarus
    24. SentrySentry
    25. RocketeerRocketeer ×5
    26. Wind
    27. LazarusLazarus
    28. Wind
    29. RocketeerRocketeer
    30. Wind
    31. RocketeerRocketeer
    32. Wind
    33. RocketeerRocketeer
    34. Wind
    35. RocketeerRocketeer
    36. Wind
    37. RocketeerRocketeer
    38. Wind
    39. LazarusLazarus
    40. Wind
    41. RocketeerRocketeer
    42. Wind
    43. RocketeerRocketeer
    44. Wind
  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 (38%) · pawn (35%) · Lazarus (35%)

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

    The example game in this phase · 76 steps
    1. RocketeerRocketeer
    2. Wind
    3. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    4. Wind
    5. RocketeerRocketeer
    6. Wind
    7. LazarusLazarus
    8. Con turret
    9. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    10. SentrySentry
    11. Converter
    12. Wind
    13. Con turret
    14. RocketeerRocketeer
    15. Wind
    16. RocketeerRocketeer
    17. Wind ×2
    18. RocketeerRocketeer
    19. Wind
    20. Converter
    21. LazarusLazarus
    22. RocketeerRocketeer
    23. Wind ×2
    24. RocketeerRocketeer
    25. SentrySentry
    26. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    27. PawnPawn
    28. Wind
    29. Converter
    30. Wind
    31. PawnPawn
    32. SentrySentry
    33. Wind
    34. Converter
    35. RocketeerRocketeer
    36. Wind ×2
    37. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    38. Converter
    39. Wind
    40. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    41. Wind
    42. RocketeerRocketeer
    43. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 7:43 · typical 8:53
    44. RocketeerRocketeer
    45. Wind ×2
    46. RocketeerRocketeer
    47. Mex
    48. Converter
    49. Wind ×2
    50. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    51. Wind
    52. LazarusLazarus
    53. Wind
    54. Energy storage
    55. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    56. Wind ×2
    57. Con turret
    58. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    59. Con turret
    60. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 8:58 · typical 0:47
    61. Wind ×2
    62. Construction BotCon bot
    63. Wind ×2
    64. Construction BotCon bot
    65. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    66. Wind ×5
    67. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    68. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    69. Con turret ×3
    70. Wind ×2
    71. Con turret
    72. Wind ×3
    73. Con turret
    74. Wind
    75. Con turret
    76. Wind

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is [crd]sisa's (42 OS, 20/09/2026); 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 69% 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

1106 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0033300
2:008452131
3:001625141105
4:002713541333
5:0038681197816
6:00507821211524
7:00633930122448
8:00766738773357
9:00911846694311
10:001069653425050
11:001264758395699
12:001486663976527
13:001746370137244
14:002018476298090
15:002267783978941
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

42.3 OS · 20/09/2026

Open source match ↗

5 received units · includes a constructor
12 metal received · 9882 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Bot Lab0:45Middle 50%: 0:35–8:46 · n=695
Vehicle Plant0:47Middle 50%: 0:37–0:57 · n=789
Advanced Metal Extractor8:53Middle 50%: 8:01–10:02 · n=884

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