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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 ×2
    2. Bot LabBot Labdone 0:33 · 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 · 40 steps
    1. TickTick ×2
    2. Construction BotCon bot
    3. TickTick
    4. Wind
    5. TickTick
    6. Mex
    7. Wind
    8. TickTick ×3
    9. LazarusLazarus
    10. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    11. Mex
    12. CenturionCenturion
    13. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    14. PawnPawn ×2
    15. Mex
    16. PawnPawn ×3
    17. Mex
    18. RocketeerRocketeer
    19. SentrySentry
    20. RocketeerRocketeer
    21. SentrySentry
    22. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    23. LazarusLazarus
    24. SentrySentry
    25. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    26. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×4
    27. RocketeerRocketeer
    28. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×3
    29. RocketeerRocketeer
    30. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×4
    31. RocketeerRocketeer
    32. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×3
    33. LazarusLazarus
    34. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×4
    35. RocketeerRocketeer
    36. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×3
    37. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    38. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×3
    39. RocketeerRocketeer
    40. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
  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 · 71 steps
    1. LazarusLazarus
    2. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    3. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    4. Mex
    5. RocketeerRocketeer ×4
    6. LazarusLazarus
    7. PawnPawn
    8. Con turret
    9. PawnPawn ×2
    10. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    11. PawnPawn
    12. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    13. PawnPawn
    14. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    15. PawnPawn ×2
    16. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    17. PawnPawn
    18. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    19. PawnPawn
    20. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    21. PawnPawn
    22. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    23. RocketeerRocketeer
    24. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    25. RocketeerRocketeer
    26. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×3
    27. RocketeerRocketeer ×5
    28. PawnPawn ×8
    29. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    30. PawnPawn
    31. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:59
    32. PawnPawn ×2
    33. Mex
    34. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    35. PawnPawn ×11
    36. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    37. PawnPawn
    38. Wind
    39. PawnPawn ×2
    40. Wind
    41. PawnPawn
    42. Wind
    43. PawnPawn
    44. LazarusLazarus
    45. Wind
    46. LazarusLazarus
    47. Wind ×2
    48. PawnPawn ×3
    49. Wind
    50. PawnPawn ×17
    51. Mex
    52. Con turret
    53. PawnPawn ×2
    54. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    55. SentrySentry
    56. PawnPawn
    57. SentrySentry
    58. Con turret
    59. SentrySentry
    60. Wind ×2
    61. SentrySentry
    62. Solar
    63. PawnPawn
    64. Wind ×2
    65. PawnPawn
    66. Solar
    67. Construction BotCon bot
    68. Wind
    69. Construction BotCon bot
    70. Solar
    71. Wind

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is xabre's (49 OS, 24/09/2026); 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 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

xabre

48.6 OS · 24/09/2026

Open source match ↗

5 received units · includes a constructor
105 metal received · 22787 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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