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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 · 3 steps
    1. Mex ×3
    2. Wind
    3. Bot LabBot Labdone 0:45 · 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 · 33 steps
    1. TickTick
    2. Wind
    3. TickTick ×2
    4. LazarusLazarus ×2
    5. CenturionCenturion
    6. Construction BotCon bot ×3
    7. Wind
    8. CenturionCenturion
    9. RocketeerRocketeer
    10. Mex
    11. Wind
    12. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    13. Wind
    14. Mex
    15. RocketeerRocketeer
    16. Wind
    17. RocketeerRocketeer
    18. Mex
    19. RocketeerRocketeer
    20. Wind
    21. RocketeerRocketeer
    22. LazarusLazarus
    23. CenturionCenturion
    24. Wind
    25. RocketeerRocketeer
    26. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    27. Wind
    28. RocketeerRocketeer
    29. Construction BotCon bot
    30. Wind
    31. RocketeerRocketeer ×4
    32. Wind
    33. RocketeerRocketeer
  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 · 95 steps
    1. LazarusLazarus
    2. Wind
    3. CenturionCenturion
    4. RocketeerRocketeer
    5. Wind
    6. RocketeerRocketeer
    7. Construction BotCon bot
    8. RocketeerRocketeer
    9. Wind
    10. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    11. Wind
    12. RocketeerRocketeer
    13. LazarusLazarus
    14. BeamerBeamer
    15. Wind
    16. CenturionCenturion
    17. Wind
    18. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    19. Mex
    20. Wind
    21. Construction BotCon bot
    22. RocketeerRocketeer
    23. Wind
    24. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    25. SentrySentry
    26. RocketeerRocketeer
    27. ThugThug
    28. Wind ×2
    29. RocketeerRocketeer
    30. GruntGrunt
    31. Wind
    32. ThugThug
    33. RocketeerRocketeer
    34. Wind ×2
    35. LazarusLazarus
    36. Wind ×2
    37. CenturionCenturion
    38. Wind
    39. BeamerBeamer
    40. Wind ×7
    41. RocketeerRocketeer
    42. Mex
    43. RocketeerRocketeer
    44. Wind
    45. Mex
    46. Wind
    47. Construction BotCon bot
    48. Wind
    49. NettleNettle
    50. Wind
    51. RocketeerRocketeer
    52. Wind ×2
    53. RocketeerRocketeer
    54. Wind ×2
    55. Mex ×2
    56. Construction BotCon bot
    57. Wind ×2
    58. Con turret
    59. Wind ×2
    60. SentrySentry
    61. Wind ×2
    62. SentrySentry
    63. Wind ×3
    64. SentrySentry
    65. Wind
    66. Construction BotCon bot
    67. Wind
    68. Converter
    69. SentrySentry
    70. Wind
    71. Construction BotCon bot
    72. Wind ×3
    73. SentrySentry
    74. Construction BotCon bot
    75. Wind
    76. Converter
    77. Wind ×2
    78. Construction BotCon bot
    79. Wind ×3
    80. Con turret
    81. Wind
    82. Converter
    83. Wind ×3
    84. Converter
    85. Wind
    86. Construction BotCon bot
    87. BeamerBeamer
    88. Wind ×2
    89. Construction BotCon bot
    90. Converter
    91. Wind ×2
    92. Energy storage
    93. Wind
    94. Converter
    95. Wind ×4

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is The_Dwarf's (39 OS, 31/08/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

Nothing regular.

You get

  • Tidal Generator4 Tidal from Pondfirst at 0:18 · 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

The_Dwarf

39.4 OS · 31/08/2026

Open source match ↗

8 received units · includes a constructor
78 metal received · 3962 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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