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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 · 4 steps
    1. Mexfor Geo
    2. Mex
    3. Wind
    4. Bot LabBot Labfor Geodone 0:39 · 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 · 29 steps
    1. TickTick
    2. PawnPawn ×2
    3. Wind
    4. Construction BotCon bot
    5. Construction BotCon botfor Geo
    6. Mex
    7. TickTick
    8. Construction BotCon botfor Geo
    9. LazarusLazarus
    10. CenturionCenturion
    11. Mex ×2
    12. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    13. Mex
    14. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    15. SentrySentry
    16. Con turret
    17. SentrySentry
    18. RocketeerRocketeer
    19. LazarusLazarus
    20. RocketeerRocketeer ×5
    21. LazarusLazarus ×3
    22. Windfor Geo
    23. RocketeerRocketeer
    24. Windfor Geo
    25. RocketeerRocketeer
    26. Windfor Geo
    27. RocketeerRocketeer
    28. Windfor Geo
    29. RocketeerRocketeer
  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 · 44 steps
    1. RocketeerRocketeer
    2. Converter
    3. RocketeerRocketeer
    4. TickTick
    5. RocketeerRocketeer
    6. Converter
    7. RocketeerRocketeer
    8. Windfor Geo
    9. RocketeerRocketeer
    10. Windfor Geo
    11. TickTick
    12. RocketeerRocketeer
    13. Converter
    14. Mex
    15. RocketeerRocketeer
    16. Windfor Geo
    17. SentrySentry
    18. RocketeerRocketeer
    19. Windfor Geo
    20. RocketeerRocketeer
    21. Windfor Geo
    22. RocketeerRocketeer
    23. TickTick
    24. RocketeerRocketeerfor Geo
    25. Windfor Geo
    26. RocketeerRocketeerfor Geo
    27. Wind
    28. RocketeerRocketeerfor Geo
    29. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexfor Geodone 7:40 · typical 8:52
    30. RocketeerRocketeerfor Geo
    31. Converter
    32. LazarusLazarusfor Geo
    33. Wind
    34. LazarusLazarusfor Geo
    35. PawnPawn
    36. Windfor Geo
    37. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexfor Geo
    38. PawnPawn
    39. Windfor Geo
    40. PawnPawn
    41. Windfor Geo
    42. PawnPawn ×2
    43. LazarusLazarus
    44. LazarusLazarusfor Geo

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Xad's (46 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

Xad

46.3 OS · 23/09/2026

Open source match ↗

5 received units · includes a constructor
130 metal received · 8346 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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