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Standard front

Armada Front build order · Supreme Isthmus

Standard economy-first Front play: Bot Lab and Vehicle Plant up immediately, units trickle to the coast and middle, with an Advanced Metal Extractor around 9:00 as the eco transition.

#eco · 1700 distinct matches · 248 players · 74% of Armada Front games · team won 61% of 1994 · Recently observed

HOW TO PLAY IT

Key timing: T2 constructor by 7:43

  1. Open mex and wind, drop Bot Lab and Vehicle Plant almost immediately.
  2. Pump Blitz, Rocketeer and Pawn to the coast to stop leaks first.
  3. Add Centurion and Janus once first units are moving up.
  4. Form units into a line pushing toward middle as numbers grow.
  5. Upgrade to Advanced Metal Extractor as the economy transition kicks in.

Phase by phase

TYPICAL OF ITS 1700 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
    Order
    1. Bot LabBot Lab after 2 mex, 1 winddone ~0:44, middle half 0:33–0:56

    Some games also: wind (48%) · Vehicle Plant (35%)

    By 0:28 in all: 2 mex

    The example game in this phase · 1 step
    1. Bot LabBot Labdone 0:20 · typical 0:44
  2. 2

    Bot Lab to 5:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor4Mex
    • Wind Turbine3Wind
    Builders
    • Construction Bot1 Con bot
    Army
    • Sentry1 Sentry
    • Rocketeer6 Rocketeer

    Some games also: Lazarus (49%) · tick (46%) · centurion (40%) · con vehicle (32%) · janus (32%)

    By 5:00 in all: 6 mex · 6 wind

    The example game in this phase · 47 steps
    1. PawnPawn
    2. Mex ×2
    3. Wind
    4. PawnPawn
    5. Wind
    6. Mex
    7. TickTick
    8. PawnPawn
    9. LazarusLazarus
    10. CenturionCenturion
    11. Construction BotCon bot
    12. CenturionCenturion
    13. Con turret
    14. Wind
    15. RocketeerRocketeer
    16. Wind
    17. Mex
    18. RocketeerRocketeer
    19. Wind
    20. Mex
    21. RocketeerRocketeer
    22. Wind
    23. RocketeerRocketeer
    24. Converter
    25. RocketeerRocketeer
    26. Mex
    27. Converter
    28. RocketeerRocketeer
    29. Converter
    30. RocketeerRocketeer
    31. Converter
    32. RocketeerRocketeer
    33. SentrySentry
    34. RocketeerRocketeer
    35. Wind
    36. RocketeerRocketeer
    37. Wind
    38. RocketeerRocketeer
    39. Wind
    40. RocketeerRocketeer
    41. Wind
    42. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    43. Wind
    44. RocketeerRocketeer
    45. Wind
    46. RocketeerRocketeer
    47. Wind
  3. 3

    5:00 to 10:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor1Mex
    • Wind Turbine14Wind
    Builders
    • Construction Turret2 Con turret
    Army
    • Sentry1 Sentry

    Some games also: rocketeer (45%) · energy storage (43%) · Lazarus (38%) · con bot (37%) · Radar Tower (36%)

    By 10:00 in all: 7 mex · 24 wind · 1 energy storage · 3 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 152 steps
    1. RocketeerRocketeer
    2. Wind
    3. RocketeerRocketeer
    4. Wind
    5. RocketeerRocketeer
    6. Wind
    7. RocketeerRocketeer
    8. Con turret
    9. RocketeerRocketeer
    10. LazarusLazarus ×2
    11. Construction BotCon bot
    12. Energy storage
    13. LazarusLazarus ×2
    14. RocketeerRocketeer
    15. Converter
    16. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    17. Converter
    18. RocketeerRocketeer
    19. Converter
    20. RocketeerRocketeer
    21. Converter
    22. RocketeerRocketeer
    23. Wind
    24. PawnPawn
    25. Con turret
    26. PawnPawn
    27. Wind
    28. PawnPawn
    29. Wind
    30. PawnPawn
    31. Wind
    32. PawnPawn
    33. Wind
    34. PawnPawn
    35. Wind
    36. PawnPawn
    37. Wind
    38. PawnPawn
    39. Wind
    40. PawnPawn ×3
    41. Con turret
    42. PawnPawn
    43. Wind
    44. PawnPawn ×2
    45. Wind
    46. PawnPawn
    47. SentrySentry ×2
    48. Wind
    49. PawnPawn
    50. Wind
    51. PawnPawn
    52. Wind
    53. PawnPawn
    54. BeamerBeamer
    55. Wind
    56. PawnPawn
    57. BeamerBeamer
    58. PawnPawn
    59. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:39 · typical 9:00
    60. PawnPawn ×2
    61. BeamerBeamer
    62. TickTick ×2
    63. Mex
    64. TickTick ×5
    65. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    66. TickTick ×2
    67. Con turret
    68. TickTick ×4
    69. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    70. TickTick ×2
    71. Construction BotCon bot
    72. Con turret ×2
    73. Construction BotCon bot
    74. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    75. Construction BotCon bot ×4
    76. Sneaky PeteSneaky Pete
    77. TickTick ×13
    78. Wind ×2
    79. CenturionCenturion
    80. Wind
    81. CenturionCenturion
    82. Wind ×4
    83. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    84. Solar
    85. Wind
    86. CenturionCenturion
    87. Wind
    88. Solar
    89. Con turret
    90. Wind
    91. CenturionCenturion
    92. Wind ×2
    93. CenturionCenturion ×2
    94. Wind ×2
    95. CenturionCenturion
    96. Con turret
    97. Wind
    98. CenturionCenturion
    99. Wind ×2
    100. CenturionCenturion
    101. Con turret
    102. Wind
    103. CenturionCenturion
    104. Wind ×2
    105. CenturionCenturion
    106. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    107. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 13:24 · typical 0:47
    108. Wind ×2
    109. CrossbowCrossbow
    110. Wind
    111. CrossbowCrossbow
    112. Wind
    113. Con turret
    114. CrossbowCrossbow
    115. Wind
    116. CenturionCenturion
    117. Wind ×2
    118. BlitzBlitz
    119. Wind
    120. CenturionCenturion
    121. Wind
    122. LazarusLazarus
    123. Wind ×2
    124. Con turret
    125. BlitzBlitz
    126. Cloakable Fusion ReactorCloakable Fusion Reactornot finished by 15:00
    127. LazarusLazarus
    128. Wind ×2
    129. LazarusLazarus
    130. Wind ×2
    131. LazarusLazarus
    132. Con turret
    133. Wind ×2
    134. LazarusLazarus
    135. BeaverBeaver
    136. Wind
    137. LazarusLazarus
    138. Con turret
    139. Wind
    140. LazarusLazarus
    141. Wind
    142. LazarusLazarus
    143. Wind
    144. LazarusLazarus
    145. BlitzBlitz
    146. Wind
    147. LazarusLazarus
    148. BlitzBlitz
    149. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantnot finished by 15:00
    150. Wind
    151. CrossbowCrossbow
    152. BlitzBlitz

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is GazzGrim's (32 OS, 10/10/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

Nothing regular.

You get

  • Tidal Generator4 Tidal from Pondfirst at 0:17 · in 68% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Geo or Techfirst at 7:24 · in 64% 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

1994 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0033300
2:008402131
3:001618135108
4:002700522333
5:0038471128787
6:00503519281428
7:00625027202303
8:00753535463173
9:00897343304071
10:001054250114810
11:001237555405548
12:001452859986409
13:001685964707001
14:001921771867827
15:002184978708694
WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY

Standard Front play wins more often than Suicide front and produces more metal by 15:00 while losing less of it.

  • + Metal produced reaches 22627 by 15:00, well above Suicide front's 20142.
  • + Own metal lost is 8944 by 15:00, lower than enemy metal destroyed ratio of Suicide front.
  • − First unit lost already at 1:43, showing exposure despite the safer position.
  • − Blitz dominates army share at 25%, leaving fewer Centurion for anti-swarm.
THE EXAMPLE YOU ARE READING

GazzGrim

32.1 OS · 10/10/2026

Open source match ↗

6 received units · includes a constructor
194 metal received · 127795 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Bot Lab0:44Middle 50%: 0:33–0:56 · n=1332
Vehicle Plant0:47Middle 50%: 0:41–1:13 · n=1286
Advanced Metal Extractor9:00Middle 50%: 8:09–10:15 · n=1564

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