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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 ×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 (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 · 43 steps
    1. Solar
    2. TickTick ×2
    3. PawnPawn
    4. LazarusLazarus ×2
    5. PawnPawn
    6. Construction BotCon bot
    7. CenturionCenturion
    8. PawnPawn ×2
    9. CenturionCenturion
    10. RocketeerRocketeer
    11. Construction BotCon bot
    12. Mex
    13. RocketeerRocketeer
    14. Con turret
    15. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    16. Mex
    17. TickTick ×3
    18. Mex
    19. TickTick
    20. RocketeerRocketeer
    21. Mex
    22. SentrySentry
    23. RocketeerRocketeer
    24. Wind
    25. RocketeerRocketeer
    26. Wind
    27. Construction BotCon bot
    28. BeamerBeamer
    29. Wind
    30. CenturionCenturion
    31. Wind ×3
    32. RocketeerRocketeer
    33. Wind
    34. RocketeerRocketeer
    35. Wind
    36. RocketeerRocketeer
    37. Wind
    38. RocketeerRocketeer
    39. Wind
    40. RocketeerRocketeer
    41. Wind
    42. Construction BotCon bot
    43. 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 · 71 steps
    1. Con turret
    2. LazarusLazarus
    3. BeamerBeamer
    4. Mex
    5. RocketeerRocketeer
    6. Con turret
    7. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    8. Energy storage
    9. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    10. Energy storage
    11. Construction BotCon bot
    12. Energy storage
    13. Converter
    14. LazarusLazarus
    15. Con turret
    16. Construction BotCon bot
    17. Mex
    18. Converter
    19. Wind
    20. PawnPawn
    21. Converter
    22. PawnPawn ×4
    23. Wind
    24. PawnPawn
    25. Wind
    26. PawnPawn
    27. Wind
    28. Converter
    29. PawnPawn
    30. Wind
    31. PawnPawn
    32. Wind
    33. PawnPawn ×2
    34. Wind
    35. PawnPawn
    36. Wind
    37. PawnPawn
    38. Converter
    39. Wind
    40. PawnPawn
    41. Wind
    42. PawnPawn
    43. Wind
    44. PawnPawn
    45. Wind
    46. PawnPawn
    47. Wind
    48. PawnPawn
    49. Wind
    50. Converter
    51. PawnPawn ×7
    52. Converter
    53. PawnPawn ×7
    54. Converter
    55. PawnPawn ×2
    56. Converter
    57. Wind
    58. PawnPawn ×2
    59. Wind
    60. Converter
    61. PawnPawn ×2
    62. Wind
    63. PawnPawn ×2
    64. Converter
    65. Wind
    66. PawnPawn ×3
    67. Wind
    68. Converter
    69. PawnPawn ×2
    70. Wind
    71. PawnPawn ×3

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is [Grump]_Doni's (51 OS, 25/09/2026); 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

[Grump]_Doni

50.6 OS · 25/09/2026

Open source match ↗

4 received units
201 metal received · 21060 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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