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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 ×3
    2. Bot LabBot Labdone 0:44 · 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. Wind
    3. LazarusLazarus
    4. Wind
    5. Construction BotCon bot ×3
    6. CenturionCenturion
    7. Mex
    8. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    9. Mex
    10. RocketeerRocketeer ×6
    11. Mex
    12. RocketeerRocketeer ×8
    13. TickTick
    14. RocketeerRocketeer
    15. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    16. Con turret
    17. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    18. CenturionCenturion
  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 · 191 steps
    1. RocketeerRocketeer
    2. Wind
    3. RocketeerRocketeer
    4. Wind
    5. RocketeerRocketeer
    6. Wind
    7. RocketeerRocketeer
    8. Wind
    9. Mex
    10. TickTick
    11. RocketeerRocketeer
    12. Wind
    13. RocketeerRocketeer
    14. Wind
    15. RocketeerRocketeer
    16. Wind
    17. RocketeerRocketeer
    18. Wind
    19. RocketeerRocketeer
    20. Wind
    21. RocketeerRocketeer
    22. Wind ×2
    23. Converter
    24. Wind
    25. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 8:36 · typical 8:52
    26. Wind
    27. RocketeerRocketeer
    28. TickTick
    29. RocketeerRocketeer
    30. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    31. Wind
    32. SentrySentry
    33. Wind
    34. SentrySentry
    35. Wind
    36. TickTick ×3
    37. Wind
    38. TickTick
    39. SentrySentry
    40. TickTick
    41. Wind
    42. TickTick ×2
    43. Wind
    44. TickTick ×2
    45. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    46. Wind
    47. TickTick ×4
    48. Wind
    49. TickTick ×3
    50. Wind
    51. TickTick ×3
    52. Wind
    53. TickTick ×2
    54. CenturionCenturion
    55. Wind
    56. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    57. Energy storage
    58. CenturionCenturion
    59. Wind ×3
    60. CenturionCenturion
    61. Mex
    62. Construction BotCon bot
    63. Wind
    64. CenturionCenturion
    65. Sneaky PeteSneaky Pete
    66. CenturionCenturion
    67. Wind
    68. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    69. TickTick
    70. LazarusLazarus
    71. Wind
    72. TickTick ×2
    73. Wind
    74. CenturionCenturion
    75. Wind
    76. TickTick ×2
    77. Con turret
    78. TickTick
    79. Wind
    80. TickTick
    81. Mex
    82. Wind
    83. TickTick
    84. Con turret
    85. CenturionCenturion
    86. Wind
    87. Con turret ×2
    88. Wind
    89. CenturionCenturion
    90. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    91. TickTick
    92. Wind
    93. TickTick
    94. Wind
    95. TickTick ×2
    96. Wind
    97. TickTick ×2
    98. Wind
    99. TickTick ×3
    100. Wind
    101. TickTick
    102. Con turret
    103. TickTick
    104. Mex
    105. Wind
    106. Mex
    107. TickTick
    108. Con turret
    109. TickTick
    110. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 12:26 · typical 0:47
    111. Wind
    112. TickTick
    113. CenturionCenturion
    114. StoutStout
    115. SentrySentry
    116. CenturionCenturion
    117. Wind
    118. StoutStout
    119. SentrySentry
    120. TickTick ×2
    121. StoutStout
    122. TickTick ×3
    123. StoutStout
    124. TickTick ×2
    125. Wind
    126. TickTick
    127. StoutStout
    128. TickTick ×2
    129. StoutStout
    130. TickTick
    131. Mex
    132. TickTick
    133. StoutStout
    134. CrossbowCrossbow ×2
    135. Wind
    136. StoutStout
    137. CrossbowCrossbow
    138. StoutStout
    139. CrossbowCrossbow
    140. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    141. StoutStout
    142. CrossbowCrossbow
    143. Wind
    144. StoutStout
    145. CrossbowCrossbow
    146. Advanced solar
    147. Wind ×2
    148. TickTick
    149. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    150. TickTick
    151. Wind
    152. Advanced solar
    153. TickTick
    154. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    155. TickTick
    156. Wind
    157. TickTick
    158. Wind
    159. TickTick ×2
    160. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    161. Wind
    162. TickTick
    163. Advanced solar
    164. TickTick
    165. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    166. Advanced solar
    167. TickTick
    168. Wind
    169. TickTick
    170. Solar
    171. Construction BotCon bot
    172. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    173. Mex
    174. TickTick ×2
    175. CrossbowCrossbow
    176. Solar
    177. Wind
    178. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    179. CrossbowCrossbow
    180. Advanced solar
    181. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    182. CrossbowCrossbow
    183. Wind
    184. Solar
    185. StoutStout
    186. CrossbowCrossbow
    187. StoutStout
    188. CrossbowCrossbow
    189. Wind
    190. StoutStout
    191. CrossbowCrossbow

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is confirm_'s (63 OS, 30/08/2026); 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

confirm_

63.5 OS · 30/08/2026

Open source match ↗

5 received units · includes a constructor
1393 metal received · 13151 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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