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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 · 1700 distinct matches · 248 players · 74% of Armada Front games · team won 61% of 1994 · 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 1700 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 0:33–0:56

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

    By 0:28 in all: 2 mex

    The example game in this phase · 2 steps
    1. Mex ×2
    2. Bot LabBot Labdone 0:33 · 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

    The example game in this phase · 35 steps
    1. LazarusLazarus
    2. TickTick
    3. Mex
    4. TickTick ×2
    5. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    6. Wind
    7. CenturionCenturion ×2
    8. Mex
    9. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    10. Mex
    11. CenturionCenturion
    12. Construction BotCon bot
    13. LazarusLazarus
    14. Mex
    15. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    16. Wind
    17. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    18. Wind
    19. RocketeerRocketeer
    20. Wind
    21. RocketeerRocketeer
    22. Wind
    23. RocketeerRocketeer
    24. OverwatchOverwatch
    25. Wind
    26. RocketeerRocketeer
    27. Wind
    28. RocketeerRocketeer
    29. Wind
    30. RocketeerRocketeer
    31. Wind
    32. RocketeerRocketeer
    33. Wind
    34. RocketeerRocketeer
    35. 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 (45%) · 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 · 119 steps
    1. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    2. RocketeerRocketeer
    3. Con turret
    4. Wind ×2
    5. RocketeerRocketeer
    6. Wind
    7. LazarusLazarus
    8. Wind
    9. Energy storage
    10. Con turret
    11. RocketeerRocketeer
    12. Wind ×2
    13. Converter
    14. Wind
    15. RocketeerRocketeer
    16. Converter
    17. Con turret
    18. Wind
    19. RocketeerRocketeer
    20. Con turret
    21. Wind
    22. RocketeerRocketeer
    23. Wind
    24. RocketeerRocketeer
    25. Converter
    26. Wind
    27. RocketeerRocketeer
    28. Con turret
    29. Converter
    30. RocketeerRocketeer
    31. Wind
    32. Converter
    33. RocketeerRocketeer
    34. Wind
    35. Converter
    36. Sneaky PeteSneaky Pete
    37. RocketeerRocketeer
    38. Wind
    39. MaceMace
    40. Converter
    41. MaceMace
    42. GauntletGauntletnot finished by 15:00
    43. MaceMace
    44. Converter
    45. MaceMace
    46. GauntletGauntlet
    47. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 8:47 · typical 9:00
    48. Wind
    49. MaceMace
    50. Converter
    51. Wind
    52. MaceMace
    53. Wind
    54. Converter
    55. MaceMace
    56. Wind
    57. Converter
    58. MaceMace
    59. Wind
    60. Converter
    61. Wind
    62. MaceMace
    63. Con turret
    64. Wind
    65. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    66. MaceMace
    67. Con turret
    68. Wind
    69. MaceMace
    70. Mex
    71. Wind ×2
    72. MaceMace ×2
    73. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    74. Mex
    75. MaceMace
    76. Wind
    77. Twin GuardTwin Guard
    78. Wind
    79. Mex
    80. LazarusLazarus ×2
    81. Wind
    82. MaceMace
    83. Mex
    84. MaceMace
    85. Wind
    86. MaceMace ×3
    87. Wind
    88. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    89. MaceMace
    90. Con turret
    91. MaceMace
    92. SentrySentry
    93. Wind
    94. MaceMace
    95. Con turret
    96. MaceMace
    97. Wind
    98. MaceMace
    99. SentrySentry
    100. MaceMace ×3
    101. Wind
    102. SentrySentry
    103. MaceMace ×2
    104. Advanced Bot LabAdvanced Bot Labdone 11:27
    105. MaceMace
    106. Wind
    107. SentrySentry
    108. Wind
    109. MaceMace
    110. Wind
    111. MaceMace
    112. Converter
    113. MaceMace ×2
    114. Wind
    115. MaceMace ×2
    116. Converter
    117. MaceMace
    118. Wind
    119. MaceMace

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is OUDLES's (36 OS, 13/10/2026); 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 7:24 · 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

1994 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0033300
2:008402131
3:001618135108
4:002700522333
5:0038471128787
6:00503519281428
7:00625027202303
8:00753535463173
9:00897343304071
10:001054250114810
11:001237555405548
12:001452859986409
13:001685964707001
14:001921771867827
15:002184978708694
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

OUDLES

35.9 OS · 13/10/2026

Open source match ↗

6 received units · includes a constructor
126 metal received · 31594 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Bot Lab0:44Middle 50%: 0:33–0:56 · n=1332
Vehicle Plant0:47Middle 50%: 0:41–1:13 · n=1286
Advanced Metal Extractor9:00Middle 50%: 8:09–10:15 · n=1564

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