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

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is confirm_'s (63 OS, 30/08/2026); 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

confirm_

63.5 OS · 30/08/2026

Open source match ↗

6 received units · includes a constructor
383 metal received · 22621 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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