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Standard front

Armada Front build order · Supreme Isthmus

Standard economy-first Front play: Bot Lab and Vehicle Plant up immediately, units trickle to the coast and middle, with an Advanced Metal Extractor around 9:00 as the eco transition.

#eco · 1699 distinct matches · 247 players · 74% of Armada Front games · team won 61% of 1993 · Recently observed

HOW TO PLAY IT

Key timing: T2 constructor by 7:43

  1. Open mex and wind, drop Bot Lab and Vehicle Plant almost immediately.
  2. Pump Blitz, Rocketeer and Pawn to the coast to stop leaks first.
  3. Add Centurion and Janus once first units are moving up.
  4. Form units into a line pushing toward middle as numbers grow.
  5. Upgrade to Advanced Metal Extractor as the economy transition kicks in.

Phase by phase

TYPICAL OF ITS 1699 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
    Order
    1. Bot LabBot Lab after 2 mex, 1 winddone ~0:44, middle half 0:33–0:54

    Some games also: wind (48%) · Vehicle Plant (35%)

    By 0:28 in all: 2 mex

    The example game in this phase · 33 steps
    1. Mex ×2
    2. Wind ×2
    3. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 0:50 · typical 0:47
    4. RoverScout
    5. Wind ×2
    6. RoverScout ×4
    7. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    8. BlitzBlitz
    9. Construction VehicleCon vehicle ×4
    10. Mex ×2
    11. Wind ×2
    12. Mex
    13. Wind
    14. Mex
    15. Wind
    16. SentrySentry
    17. Wind
    18. Con turret
    19. Wind
    20. SentrySentry
    21. Wind
    22. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    23. Wind ×3
    24. Sneaky PeteSneaky Pete
    25. Con turret
    26. Wind ×4
    27. BeamerBeamer
    28. Wind
    29. Metal storage
    30. Wind
    31. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    32. Wind
    33. Bot LabBot Labnot finished by 15:00 · typical 0:44
  2. 2

    Bot Lab to 5:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor4Mex
    • Wind Turbine3Wind
    Builders
    • Construction Bot1 Con bot
    Army
    • Sentry1 Sentry
    • Rocketeer6 Rocketeer

    Some games also: Lazarus (49%) · tick (46%) · centurion (40%) · con vehicle (32%) · janus (32%)

    By 5:00 in all: 6 mex · 6 wind

  3. 3

    5:00 to 10:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor1Mex
    • Wind Turbine14Wind
    Builders
    • Construction Turret2 Con turret
    Army
    • Sentry1 Sentry

    Some games also: rocketeer (46%) · energy storage (43%) · Lazarus (38%) · con bot (37%) · Radar Tower (36%)

    By 10:00 in all: 7 mex · 24 wind · 1 energy storage · 3 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 91 steps
    1. Wind ×2
    2. BeamerBeamer
    3. Wind ×3
    4. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    5. Wind ×3
    6. GauntletGauntletnot finished by 15:00
    7. Wind
    8. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    9. Con turret
    10. Wind ×2
    11. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    12. GauntletGauntlet
    13. Wind
    14. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    15. Wind ×7
    16. GauntletGauntlet
    17. RoverScout
    18. Bot LabBot Labdone 7:50
    19. Wind
    20. RoverScout
    21. Wind
    22. RoverScout ×2
    23. Wind
    24. RoverScout ×2
    25. Wind
    26. RoverScout
    27. Wind
    28. RoverScout ×2
    29. Tidal
    30. RoverScout
    31. Wind
    32. RoverScout ×2
    33. Wind
    34. RoverScout ×3
    35. Wind
    36. RoverScout ×2
    37. Wind
    38. Tidal
    39. RoverScout ×2
    40. Wind
    41. RoverScout ×2
    42. Wind
    43. RoverScout ×2
    44. Wind
    45. RoverScout
    46. Tidal
    47. RoverScout
    48. Wind
    49. RoverScout ×2
    50. Wind
    51. LazarusLazarus
    52. RoverScout ×2
    53. Wind
    54. RoverScout ×3
    55. Wind
    56. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 11:19 · typical 9:01
    57. Tidal
    58. RoverScout
    59. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    60. RoverScout
    61. Wind
    62. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    63. Wind ×2
    64. Tidal
    65. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    66. Twilight
    67. Wind ×2
    68. Tidal
    69. Converter
    70. LazarusLazarus
    71. Converter ×3
    72. Tidal
    73. Converter ×2
    74. LazarusLazarus ×2
    75. Tidal
    76. LazarusLazarus
    77. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    78. Tidal ×2
    79. Metal storage
    80. Tidal
    81. Con turret
    82. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    83. Con turret
    84. Tidal
    85. Con turret ×2
    86. Construction BotCon bot
    87. Con turret
    88. Tidal
    89. Advanced Bot LabAdvanced Bot Labnot finished by 15:00
    90. Aircraft PlantAircraft Plantnot finished by 15:00
    91. Con turret ×2

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is BigJohnny2's (32 OS, 12/10/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

Nothing regular.

You get

  • Tidal Generator4 Tidal from Pondfirst at 0:17 · in 68% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Geo or Techfirst at 7:23 · in 64% 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

1993 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0033300
2:008402131
3:001618135108
4:002699522333
5:0038471127787
6:00503519231427
7:00624927142302
8:00753435443173
9:00897343264069
10:001053850054807
11:001237355335547
12:001452759766408
13:001685764686999
14:001922071637826
15:002185478688687
WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY

Standard Front play wins more often than Suicide front and produces more metal by 15:00 while losing less of it.

  • + Metal produced reaches 22627 by 15:00, well above Suicide front's 20142.
  • + Own metal lost is 8944 by 15:00, lower than enemy metal destroyed ratio of Suicide front.
  • − First unit lost already at 1:43, showing exposure despite the safer position.
  • − Blitz dominates army share at 25%, leaving fewer Centurion for anti-swarm.
THE EXAMPLE YOU ARE READING

BigJohnny2

32.3 OS · 12/10/2026

Open source match ↗

17 received units · includes a constructor
729 metal received · 14779 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Bot Lab0:44Middle 50%: 0:33–0:54 · n=1331
Vehicle Plant0:47Middle 50%: 0:41–1:14 · n=1285
Advanced Metal Extractor9:01Middle 50%: 8:09–10:15 · n=1563

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