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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 · 973 distinct matches · 130 players · 74% of Armada Front games · team won 63% of 1106 · 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 973 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 0:35–8:46

    Some games also: Vehicle Plant (42%)

    By 0:28 in all: 2 mex · 1 wind

    The example game in this phase · 3 steps
    1. Mex ×2
    2. Wind
    3. Bot LabBot Labdone 0:39 · typical 0:45
  2. 2

    Bot Lab to 5:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor4Mex
    • Wind Turbine3Wind
    Army
    • Sentry1 Sentry

    Some games also: rocketeer (45%) · con bot (44%) · Lazarus (43%) · tick (40%) · centurion (36%)

    By 5:00 in all: 6 mex · 7 wind

    The example game in this phase · 25 steps
    1. TickTick ×3
    2. PawnPawn
    3. Wind
    4. Construction BotCon bot ×3
    5. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    6. Mex
    7. RocketeerRocketeer
    8. TickTick ×5
    9. PawnPawn
    10. SentrySentry
    11. PawnPawn ×4
    12. Mex
    13. TickTick ×5
    14. Mex
    15. RocketeerRocketeer
    16. LazarusLazarus ×2
    17. Mex
    18. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    19. SentrySentry
    20. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    21. Construction BotCon bot
    22. TickTick ×3
    23. PawnPawn
    24. Construction BotCon bot ×3
    25. 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 (38%) · pawn (35%) · Lazarus (35%)

    By 10:00 in all: 7 mex · 25 wind · 1 energy storage · 3 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 126 steps
    1. RocketeerRocketeer ×4
    2. LazarusLazarus ×2
    3. RocketeerRocketeer ×5
    4. Construction BotCon bot
    5. TickTick ×3
    6. PawnPawn
    7. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    8. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    9. Wind
    10. RocketeerRocketeer ×4
    11. Wind
    12. RocketeerRocketeer
    13. SentrySentry
    14. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    15. PawnPawn
    16. Wind
    17. PawnPawn ×7
    18. Wind
    19. PawnPawn ×5
    20. LazarusLazarus
    21. Wind
    22. LazarusLazarus
    23. Mex
    24. LazarusLazarus
    25. PawnPawn ×2
    26. Wind ×2
    27. PawnPawn ×8
    28. Wind
    29. PawnPawn ×7
    30. Mex
    31. Wind
    32. PawnPawn ×4
    33. GruntGrunt
    34. PawnPawn ×4
    35. Wind
    36. PawnPawn
    37. GruntGrunt
    38. PawnPawn ×3
    39. GruntGrunt
    40. PawnPawn ×3
    41. Wind
    42. PawnPawn ×2
    43. BlitzBlitz
    44. PawnPawn ×4
    45. Wind
    46. PawnPawn ×6
    47. Con turret
    48. Wind
    49. PawnPawn
    50. Mex
    51. PawnPawn ×3
    52. Wind
    53. PawnPawn
    54. Con turret
    55. PawnPawn
    56. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 12:59 · typical 8:53
    57. Mex
    58. PawnPawn
    59. Con turret
    60. PawnPawn
    61. Converter
    62. PawnPawn
    63. Wind
    64. Converter
    65. PawnPawn
    66. Converter
    67. PawnPawn
    68. Converter
    69. PawnPawn
    70. Converter
    71. PawnPawn
    72. Converter
    73. Wind
    74. PawnPawn ×4
    75. Mex
    76. PawnPawn
    77. Wind
    78. Mex
    79. PawnPawn ×2
    80. TickTick
    81. Mex
    82. PawnPawn
    83. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    84. TickTick
    85. PawnPawn
    86. Wind
    87. TickTick
    88. PawnPawn
    89. TickTick
    90. PawnPawn
    91. Wind
    92. Mex
    93. TickTick
    94. PawnPawn
    95. Mex
    96. Energy storage
    97. TickTick
    98. PawnPawn
    99. TickTick
    100. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    101. PawnPawn
    102. Wind
    103. Mex
    104. TickTick
    105. Mex
    106. PawnPawn
    107. TickTick
    108. PawnPawn
    109. Wind
    110. Mex
    111. TickTick
    112. PawnPawn
    113. Mex
    114. TickTick
    115. Mex
    116. PawnPawn
    117. TickTick
    118. Mex
    119. PawnPawn
    120. TickTick
    121. Mex
    122. PawnPawn
    123. TickTick
    124. Mex
    125. Wind
    126. PawnPawn

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Xad's (45 OS, 26/09/2026); 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 69% 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

1106 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0033300
2:008452131
3:001625141105
4:002713541333
5:0038681197816
6:00507821211524
7:00633930122448
8:00766738773357
9:00911846694311
10:001069653425050
11:001264758395699
12:001486663976527
13:001746370137244
14:002018476298090
15:002267783978941
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

Xad

44.5 OS · 26/09/2026

Open source match ↗

6 received units · includes a constructor
643 metal received · 36300 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Bot Lab0:45Middle 50%: 0:35–8:46 · n=695
Vehicle Plant0:47Middle 50%: 0:37–0:57 · n=789
Advanced Metal Extractor8:53Middle 50%: 8:01–10:02 · n=884

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