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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
    2. Wind
    3. 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 · 25 steps
    1. Mex
    2. TickTick ×2
    3. Wind
    4. TickTick
    5. Solar
    6. Construction BotCon bot
    7. CenturionCenturion
    8. Mex
    9. Wind
    10. TickTick ×5
    11. CenturionCenturion
    12. RocketeerRocketeer
    13. Mex
    14. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    15. Mex
    16. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    17. Mex
    18. LazarusLazarus
    19. Construction BotCon bot
    20. SentrySentry
    21. RocketeerRocketeer ×4
    22. SentrySentry
    23. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    24. SentrySentry
    25. RocketeerRocketeer ×4
  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 · 106 steps
    1. LazarusLazarus
    2. Mex
    3. Construction BotCon bot
    4. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    5. Con turret
    6. PawnPawn ×2
    7. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    8. PawnPawn ×6
    9. Wind
    10. PawnPawn
    11. Wind
    12. PawnPawn
    13. Wind
    14. RocketeerRocketeer
    15. Wind ×2
    16. RocketeerRocketeer
    17. Wind ×2
    18. RocketeerRocketeer
    19. Wind ×3
    20. RocketeerRocketeer
    21. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 8:08 · typical 8:52
    22. Con turret
    23. LazarusLazarus
    24. Wind
    25. SentrySentry
    26. Construction BotCon bot
    27. Wind ×2
    28. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    29. RocketeerRocketeer
    30. Construction BotCon bot
    31. Wind ×3
    32. SentrySentry
    33. Construction BotCon bot
    34. Wind ×3
    35. Construction BotCon bot
    36. Wind
    37. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    38. Construction BotCon bot
    39. Wind ×15
    40. Construction BotCon bot
    41. Wind ×2
    42. Construction BotCon bot
    43. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    44. Wind
    45. Construction BotCon bot
    46. Wind ×2
    47. Construction BotCon bot
    48. Wind ×2
    49. Construction BotCon bot
    50. Wind
    51. Construction BotCon bot
    52. Wind
    53. Construction BotCon bot ×3
    54. Wind
    55. NettleNettle
    56. Converter
    57. Wind
    58. Construction BotCon bot
    59. Fortification WallFortification Wall ×3
    60. Construction BotCon bot
    61. Con turret
    62. Wind
    63. Converter
    64. Sneaky PeteSneaky Pete
    65. Fortification WallFortification Wall
    66. Wind
    67. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    68. Wind
    69. NettleNettle
    70. Con turret
    71. CenturionCenturion
    72. Converter
    73. CenturionCenturion
    74. Wind
    75. CenturionCenturion
    76. Converter
    77. NettleNettle
    78. Wind
    79. CenturionCenturion
    80. Advanced solar
    81. Wind
    82. CenturionCenturion
    83. Converter
    84. Wind
    85. LazarusLazarus
    86. Advanced solar
    87. Wind
    88. NettleNettle
    89. CrossbowCrossbow
    90. Pit BullPit Bull
    91. Wind
    92. CenturionCenturion
    93. Converter
    94. Energy storage
    95. NettleNettle
    96. SentrySentry
    97. CrossbowCrossbow
    98. Converter
    99. NettleNettle
    100. Advanced solar
    101. CrossbowCrossbow
    102. CenturionCenturion
    103. Converter
    104. SentrySentry
    105. CenturionCenturion
    106. Advanced solar

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is CentientWaffle's (38 OS, 27/08/2026); 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

CentientWaffle

37.7 OS · 27/08/2026

Open source match ↗

5 received units · includes a constructor
295 metal received · 22290 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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