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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 · 20 steps
    1. Mex ×2
    2. Wind
    3. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 0:41 · typical 0:47
    4. BlitzBlitz
    5. Wind
    6. BlitzBlitz ×2
    7. Wind
    8. BlitzBlitz ×2
    9. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    10. JanusJanus
    11. Mex
    12. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    13. Mex ×2
    14. JanusJanus
    15. Mex
    16. JanusJanus
    17. SentrySentry ×3
    18. Mex
    19. Wind
    20. Bot LabBot Labdone 4:19 · 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 · 9 steps
    1. Wind
    2. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    3. Wind
    4. LazarusLazarus
    5. RocketeerRocketeer
    6. Solar
    7. RocketeerRocketeer
    8. Wind
    9. 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 · 97 steps
    1. RocketeerRocketeer ×4
    2. Wind
    3. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    4. Solar
    5. RocketeerRocketeer
    6. Wind
    7. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    8. Con turret
    9. Wind
    10. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    11. PawnPawn ×3
    12. Wind
    13. PawnPawn ×4
    14. Con turret
    15. PawnPawn ×2
    16. Wind
    17. PawnPawn ×3
    18. Solar
    19. PawnPawn
    20. Wind
    21. PawnPawn
    22. Wind ×2
    23. PawnPawn
    24. Wind
    25. PawnPawn
    26. Wind
    27. PawnPawn
    28. Wind
    29. PawnPawn
    30. Wind
    31. PawnPawn
    32. Wind
    33. PawnPawn ×6
    34. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 7:50
    35. PawnPawn
    36. Wind
    37. PawnPawn ×3
    38. StoutStout
    39. Wind
    40. StoutStout ×2
    41. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:06 · typical 8:52
    42. StoutStout
    43. Wind
    44. StoutStout ×2
    45. Wind
    46. StoutStout
    47. BeamerBeamer
    48. StoutStout
    49. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    50. BeamerBeamer
    51. StoutStout
    52. Energy storage
    53. Advanced solar
    54. StoutStout
    55. Energy storage
    56. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    57. Wind
    58. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    59. Wind ×2
    60. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    61. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    62. Wind
    63. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    64. Wind
    65. Advanced solar
    66. Wind
    67. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    68. Wind
    69. StoutStout
    70. Wind ×2
    71. StoutStout
    72. Wind
    73. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    74. Wind ×3
    75. NettleNettle
    76. Con turret
    77. NettleNettle ×2
    78. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    79. Con turret
    80. NettleNettle ×2
    81. Con turret ×3
    82. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    83. Con turret ×2
    84. Wind ×2
    85. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    86. Wind ×4
    87. Advanced solar
    88. Wind ×2
    89. Advanced solar
    90. Wind ×6
    91. Advanced solar
    92. Wind
    93. Advanced solar
    94. Wind ×7
    95. Advanced solar
    96. Wind ×2
    97. Advanced solar

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Syphos's (40 OS, 21/09/2026); 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

Syphos

39.7 OS · 21/09/2026

Open source match ↗

8 received units · includes a constructor
128 metal received · 19705 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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