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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 · 2 steps
    1. Mex
    2. Bot LabBot Labdone 0:20 · 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 · 26 steps
    1. LazarusLazarus
    2. Mex ×2
    3. Wind ×2
    4. TickTick
    5. Construction BotCon bot
    6. TickTick
    7. Con turret
    8. TickTick ×2
    9. Mex
    10. TickTick ×2
    11. CenturionCenturion
    12. Mex
    13. RocketeerRocketeer
    14. Mex
    15. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    16. Mex
    17. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    18. SentrySentry
    19. LazarusLazarus
    20. RocketeerRocketeer
    21. SentrySentry
    22. RocketeerRocketeer
    23. LazarusLazarus
    24. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    25. Mex
    26. RocketeerRocketeer ×10
  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 · 141 steps
    1. RocketeerRocketeer ×8
    2. Wind
    3. RocketeerRocketeer
    4. Wind
    5. Construction BotCon bot
    6. Wind
    7. TickTick
    8. Wind
    9. RocketeerRocketeer
    10. SentrySentry
    11. Energy storage
    12. LazarusLazarus ×3
    13. RocketeerRocketeer
    14. SentrySentry
    15. RocketeerRocketeer
    16. Con turret
    17. SentrySentry
    18. Con turret
    19. SentrySentry
    20. Wind ×2
    21. Converter
    22. Wind
    23. Converter
    24. Wind
    25. TickTick
    26. Converter
    27. Wind
    28. Construction BotCon bot
    29. Wind
    30. Converter
    31. Con turret
    32. Converter
    33. Wind
    34. Metal storage
    35. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 8:57 · typical 0:47
    36. Converter
    37. Wind
    38. Converter
    39. SentrySentry
    40. PincerPincer
    41. Converter
    42. PincerPincer
    43. SentrySentry
    44. PincerPincer
    45. Wind
    46. PincerPincer
    47. Wind
    48. PincerPincer
    49. Wind
    50. PincerPincer ×3
    51. Wind ×2
    52. SentrySentry
    53. Wind
    54. PincerPincer
    55. Wind ×3
    56. CenturionCenturion
    57. Wind
    58. CenturionCenturion
    59. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 10:36 · typical 8:53
    60. Wind ×5
    61. TickTick
    62. Wind
    63. CenturionCenturion
    64. Wind
    65. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    66. Wind
    67. LazarusLazarus
    68. Wind ×2
    69. TickTick
    70. Wind
    71. CenturionCenturion
    72. Wind
    73. TickTick
    74. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    75. Wind
    76. CenturionCenturion
    77. Wind ×5
    78. TickTick
    79. Wind ×2
    80. CenturionCenturion
    81. Wind ×3
    82. TickTick
    83. CenturionCenturion
    84. Wind ×2
    85. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    86. Wind
    87. TickTick
    88. Wind
    89. CenturionCenturion
    90. Wind ×3
    91. LazarusLazarus
    92. Wind ×2
    93. LazarusLazarus
    94. Wind ×2
    95. LazarusLazarus
    96. Wind ×2
    97. LazarusLazarus
    98. Wind ×2
    99. LazarusLazarus
    100. Wind ×2
    101. LazarusLazarus
    102. Wind
    103. LazarusLazarus
    104. Wind
    105. LazarusLazarus
    106. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    107. LazarusLazarus
    108. Wind
    109. LazarusLazarus
    110. Wind
    111. LazarusLazarus
    112. Wind
    113. TickTick
    114. CenturionCenturion
    115. Wind
    116. TickTick
    117. CenturionCenturion
    118. Wind
    119. TickTick
    120. CenturionCenturion
    121. Wind
    122. TickTick
    123. Wind
    124. CenturionCenturion
    125. Wind
    126. TickTick
    127. CenturionCenturion
    128. Wind
    129. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    130. TickTick
    131. CenturionCenturion
    132. Wind
    133. TickTick
    134. Wind
    135. CenturionCenturion
    136. Construction BotCon bot
    137. Wind
    138. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 14:35
    139. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    140. Con turret
    141. Advanced Vehicle PlantAdvanced Vehicle Plantnot finished by 15:00

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Xad's (46 OS, 25/09/2026); 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

46.4 OS · 25/09/2026

Open source match ↗

9 received units · includes a constructor
244 metal received · 40646 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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