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

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is confirm_'s (63 OS, 30/08/2026); 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

confirm_

63.5 OS · 30/08/2026

Open source match ↗

12 received units · includes a constructor
1513 metal received · 19063 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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