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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 · 1693 distinct matches · 245 players · 74% of Armada Front games · team won 61% of 1987 · 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 1693 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 0:33–0:55

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

    By 0:28 in all: 2 mex

    The example game in this phase · 3 steps
    1. Mex ×2
    2. Wind
    3. Bot LabBot Labdone 0:44 · typical 0:44
  2. 2

    Bot Lab to 5:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor4Mex
    • Wind Turbine3Wind
    Builders
    • Construction Bot2 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 · 26 steps
    1. TickTick ×10
    2. LazarusLazarus ×2
    3. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    4. Mex
    5. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    6. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    7. SentrySentry
    8. Mex
    9. SentrySentry
    10. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    11. SentrySentry
    12. MaceMace
    13. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    14. MaceMace
    15. LazarusLazarus
    16. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    17. MaceMace
    18. OverwatchOverwatch
    19. RocketeerRocketeer
    20. Mex
    21. RocketeerRocketeer
    22. Wind
    23. Mex
    24. MaceMace
    25. Wind
    26. LazarusLazarus
  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 · 99 steps
    1. Wind
    2. RocketeerRocketeer
    3. Mex
    4. RocketeerRocketeer
    5. Wind
    6. MaceMace
    7. RocketeerRocketeer
    8. Wind
    9. RocketeerRocketeer
    10. Mex
    11. MaceMace
    12. Wind
    13. LazarusLazarus
    14. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    15. Wind
    16. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    17. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 8:42 · typical 9:01
    18. Wind
    19. Mex
    20. MaceMace
    21. Wind
    22. RocketeerRocketeer
    23. Energy storage
    24. RocketeerRocketeer
    25. Wind
    26. MaceMace
    27. Wind ×2
    28. LazarusLazarus
    29. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    30. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    31. SentrySentry
    32. Wind
    33. SentrySentry
    34. Wind
    35. RocketeerRocketeer
    36. Con turret
    37. Mex
    38. RocketeerRocketeer
    39. Wind
    40. Construction BotCon bot
    41. RocketeerRocketeer
    42. Wind
    43. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    44. Wind
    45. Construction BotCon bot
    46. Wind ×2
    47. Construction BotCon bot
    48. Wind
    49. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    50. Wind
    51. SentrySentry
    52. Wind
    53. PawnPawn ×2
    54. Wind
    55. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    56. PawnPawn
    57. Wind
    58. PawnPawn
    59. Wind
    60. SentrySentry
    61. PawnPawn
    62. Wind
    63. SentrySentry
    64. Construction BotCon bot
    65. Wind ×5
    66. PawnPawn
    67. Con turret
    68. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    69. Wind ×2
    70. PawnPawn
    71. Wind ×2
    72. PawnPawn
    73. Wind
    74. Construction BotCon bot
    75. Wind ×2
    76. PawnPawn
    77. Wind
    78. PawnPawn
    79. SentrySentry
    80. Wind
    81. LazarusLazarus
    82. Wind
    83. PawnPawn
    84. Wind
    85. RattlesnakeRattlesnakenot finished by 15:00
    86. PawnPawn
    87. Wind
    88. PawnPawn
    89. Wind
    90. PawnPawn ×2
    91. LazarusLazarus
    92. PawnPawn ×8
    93. Energy storage
    94. PawnPawn
    95. Wind ×5
    96. SentrySentry
    97. Wind
    98. SentrySentry
    99. Radar TowerRadar Tower

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is NoobSlayer's (31 OS, 22/08/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

Nothing regular.

You get

  • Tidal Generator4 Tidal from Pondfirst at 0:17 · in 68% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Geo or Techfirst at 7:23 · 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

1987 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0033300
2:008402131
3:001619134108
4:002700522333
5:0038471127787
6:00503519331427
7:00625327222302
8:00753535453173
9:00897343294069
10:001053550094807
11:001237255365546
12:001452759886402
13:001685764696999
14:001922071917826
15:002185478698687
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

NoobSlayer

31.0 OS · 22/08/2026

Open source match ↗

6 received units · includes a constructor
213 metal received · 29370 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Bot Lab0:44Middle 50%: 0:33–0:55 · n=1326
Vehicle Plant0:47Middle 50%: 0:41–1:13 · n=1281
Advanced Metal Extractor9:01Middle 50%: 8:09–10:15 · n=1559

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