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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 · 84 steps
    1. Mex ×3
    2. Wind
    3. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 0:53 · typical 0:47
    4. RoverScout ×2for Pond
    5. RoverScout
    6. RoverScout ×2for Pond
    7. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    8. Wind
    9. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    10. Wind
    11. JanusJanus
    12. Mex
    13. Wind
    14. JanusJanus
    15. Wind
    16. Mex
    17. JanusJanus
    18. Wind
    19. Mex
    20. JanusJanus ×2
    21. BlitzBlitz ×2
    22. Energy storagefor Suicide front
    23. BlitzBlitz ×15
    24. Con turret
    25. BlitzBlitz ×11
    26. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 7:43 · typical 8:53
    27. BlitzBlitz ×3
    28. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    29. Wind
    30. BlitzBlitz
    31. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    32. Wind ×2
    33. BlitzBlitz
    34. Wind ×2
    35. BlitzBlitz
    36. Wind ×2
    37. BlitzBlitz
    38. Wind
    39. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    40. Wind ×2
    41. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    42. BlitzBlitz
    43. Energy storage
    44. BlitzBlitz
    45. Wind ×2
    46. BlitzBlitz
    47. RoverScout
    48. Wind
    49. RoverScout
    50. Wind
    51. RoverScout
    52. Wind ×2
    53. RoverScout
    54. Wind
    55. RoverScout
    56. Wind
    57. RoverScout
    58. Wind
    59. RoverScout ×4
    60. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    61. Con turret
    62. Wind
    63. RoverScout ×2
    64. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    65. Con turret
    66. Wind
    67. BlitzBlitz
    68. Con turret ×2
    69. BlitzBlitz
    70. Wind
    71. BlitzBlitz ×3
    72. Con turret
    73. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    74. Wind
    75. Con turret
    76. BlitzBlitz ×4
    77. Converter
    78. BlitzBlitz
    79. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    80. Converter
    81. BlitzBlitz ×5
    82. Converter
    83. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    84. Bot LabBot Labdone 12:54 · 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

  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 · 33 steps
    1. Converter
    2. Wind
    3. BlitzBlitz
    4. Converter
    5. Wind
    6. BlitzBlitz
    7. Wind
    8. BlitzBlitz
    9. Converter
    10. Wind
    11. BlitzBlitz
    12. Wind ×2
    13. BlitzBlitz
    14. Wind
    15. Converter
    16. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    17. Wind
    18. BlitzBlitz
    19. Wind
    20. Converter
    21. LazarusLazarus
    22. BlitzBlitz
    23. Wind
    24. LazarusLazarus
    25. BlitzBlitz
    26. LazarusLazarus
    27. BlitzBlitz
    28. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    29. LazarusLazarus
    30. BlitzBlitz
    31. Converter
    32. LazarusLazarus
    33. Construction VehicleCon vehicle

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Hummell's (45 OS, 26/09/2026); 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

Hummell

45.4 OS · 26/09/2026

Open source match ↗

6 received units · includes a constructor
265 metal received · 16170 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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