BAR / BUILD ATLAS
← All builds
Front / Armada / Economy first / OBSERVED BUILD

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
    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 (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 · 32 steps
    1. Wind
    2. TickTick ×2
    3. Wind
    4. TickTick ×3
    5. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    6. Mex
    7. CenturionCenturion
    8. SentrySentry
    9. Construction BotCon bot
    10. Mex
    11. LazarusLazarus
    12. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    13. Mex
    14. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    15. Wind
    16. PawnPawn ×3
    17. Wind
    18. PawnPawn
    19. Mex
    20. PawnPawn
    21. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    22. CenturionCenturion
    23. Wind
    24. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    25. Mex
    26. Wind
    27. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    28. Wind
    29. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    30. Wind
    31. RocketeerRocketeer
    32. Construction BotCon bot
  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 · 137 steps
    1. Wind
    2. RocketeerRocketeer
    3. Con turret
    4. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    5. Wind
    6. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    7. Wind
    8. RocketeerRocketeer
    9. Wind
    10. RocketeerRocketeer
    11. Wind
    12. Converter
    13. RocketeerRocketeer
    14. CenturionCenturion
    15. Wind
    16. RocketeerRocketeer
    17. Wind
    18. CenturionCenturion
    19. Con turret
    20. Wind ×2
    21. Energy storage
    22. RocketeerRocketeer
    23. Wind ×2
    24. LazarusLazarus
    25. Wind
    26. RocketeerRocketeer
    27. PawnPawn
    28. Wind ×2
    29. PawnPawn
    30. Wind
    31. PawnPawn
    32. Wind ×3
    33. PawnPawn
    34. Wind ×2
    35. PawnPawn
    36. Wind
    37. Construction BotCon bot
    38. Mex
    39. Wind ×3
    40. PawnPawn
    41. Wind ×2
    42. PawnPawn
    43. Wind ×2
    44. Converter
    45. Wind
    46. PawnPawn
    47. Wind ×2
    48. PawnPawn
    49. Wind ×2
    50. PawnPawn
    51. Wind ×3
    52. Converter
    53. Mex
    54. PawnPawn
    55. Wind
    56. Converter
    57. Wind
    58. PawnPawn
    59. SentrySentry
    60. Wind
    61. PawnPawn
    62. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 10:08 · typical 8:52
    63. Wind
    64. Converter
    65. PawnPawn
    66. Wind
    67. PawnPawn
    68. Wind
    69. PawnPawn
    70. LazarusLazarus
    71. Converter
    72. Mex
    73. Converter
    74. Wind
    75. Mex
    76. Converter
    77. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    78. Converter
    79. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    80. Mex
    81. Con turret ×2
    82. Wind
    83. Con turret
    84. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    85. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    86. Bot LabBot Labdone 11:30
    87. Wind
    88. Con turret
    89. PawnPawn ×5
    90. Wind
    91. PawnPawn ×5
    92. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    93. PawnPawn ×3
    94. Construction BotCon bot
    95. PawnPawn
    96. Wind
    97. PawnPawn
    98. Con turret
    99. PawnPawn
    100. Con turret
    101. PawnPawn
    102. CrossbowCrossbow ×2
    103. Bot LabBot Labdone 12:25
    104. CrossbowCrossbow
    105. PawnPawn ×4
    106. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    107. PawnPawn ×3
    108. Wind
    109. PawnPawn ×9
    110. Wind
    111. PawnPawn ×11
    112. Converter
    113. PawnPawn
    114. Wind
    115. PawnPawn ×2
    116. Converter
    117. TickTick ×15
    118. Con turret
    119. TickTick
    120. RattlesnakeRattlesnakedone 14:49
    121. TickTick ×2
    122. Wind
    123. TickTick ×23
    124. Wind
    125. TickTick ×7
    126. LazarusLazarus ×2
    127. Wind
    128. Energy storage
    129. TickTick ×4
    130. Wind
    131. TickTick ×3
    132. Energy storage
    133. TickTick ×4
    134. Wind
    135. TickTick ×4
    136. Energy storage
    137. TickTick ×3

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is AlRelSoulfire's (53 OS, 16/08/2026); 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

AlRelSoulfire

52.5 OS · 16/08/2026

Open source match ↗

27 received units · includes a constructor
55 metal received · 49273 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

Played most by

Hummell91games of this buildhaaven82games of this buildLeohvm79games of this buildXad62games of this buildImmort36games of this build