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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 · 39 steps
    1. PawnPawn
    2. Mex
    3. Wind
    4. PawnPawn
    5. Wind
    6. Construction BotCon bot
    7. Wind
    8. PawnPawn ×3
    9. Mex
    10. Construction BotCon bot
    11. RocketeerRocketeer
    12. Mex
    13. RocketeerRocketeer ×6
    14. SentrySentry
    15. RocketeerRocketeer
    16. Mex
    17. RocketeerRocketeer
    18. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    19. RocketeerRocketeer
    20. TickTick
    21. Construction BotCon bot
    22. SentrySentry
    23. Construction BotCon bot
    24. RocketeerRocketeer ×5
    25. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    26. RocketeerRocketeer
    27. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×4
    28. RocketeerRocketeer
    29. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×3
    30. RocketeerRocketeer
    31. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    32. RocketeerRocketeer
    33. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    34. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    35. RocketeerRocketeer
    36. Mex
    37. TickTick
    38. LazarusLazarus
    39. 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: 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 · 186 steps
    1. Construction BotCon bot
    2. RocketeerRocketeer
    3. BeamerBeamer
    4. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    5. Wind
    6. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    7. Wind
    8. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    9. Wind
    10. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    11. Wind
    12. RocketeerRocketeer
    13. Wind
    14. TickTick
    15. LazarusLazarus
    16. Wind
    17. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    18. Wind
    19. RocketeerRocketeer
    20. Wind
    21. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    22. Wind
    23. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    24. Wind
    25. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    26. Wind
    27. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    28. Wind
    29. TickTick
    30. Con turret
    31. LazarusLazarus
    32. Wind
    33. RocketeerRocketeer
    34. Wind
    35. Con turret
    36. RocketeerRocketeer
    37. Wind
    38. Con turret
    39. RocketeerRocketeer
    40. Wind
    41. BeamerBeamer
    42. Wind
    43. Con turret
    44. RocketeerRocketeer
    45. Wind
    46. TickTick ×2
    47. Wind
    48. TickTick
    49. Con turret
    50. TickTick ×2
    51. Wind
    52. TickTick ×4
    53. Wind
    54. TickTick ×2
    55. Wind
    56. TickTick
    57. Wind
    58. TickTick ×2
    59. Con turret
    60. Wind
    61. TickTick
    62. Wind
    63. BeamerBeamer
    64. TickTick ×2
    65. Wind
    66. Mex
    67. TickTick
    68. Con turret
    69. Wind
    70. TickTick
    71. Wind
    72. TickTick
    73. Con turret
    74. TickTick
    75. Wind
    76. TickTick
    77. Mex
    78. Con turret
    79. TickTick
    80. Wind ×2
    81. TickTick
    82. Con turret ×2
    83. TickTick
    84. Wind
    85. TickTick ×4
    86. Wind
    87. Mex
    88. Con turret
    89. TickTick ×2
    90. BeamerBeamer
    91. Wind
    92. TickTick ×9
    93. Wind
    94. TickTick ×2
    95. Wind
    96. TickTick ×5
    97. Wind
    98. TickTick
    99. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 12:19 · typical 9:00
    100. TickTick ×2
    101. Con turret
    102. Wind
    103. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    104. Wind ×3
    105. Con turret
    106. Wind
    107. Converter ×3
    108. Wind ×2
    109. Converter ×3
    110. Con turret
    111. TickTick
    112. Wind ×2
    113. Converter
    114. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    115. Converter
    116. TickTick
    117. Converter
    118. Wind
    119. TickTick
    120. Wind
    121. Converter
    122. ShipyardShipyarddone 12:50
    123. TickTick
    124. Converter
    125. Wind ×2
    126. Converter
    127. TickTick
    128. EelSubmarinedone 13:08
    129. Wind
    130. Converter
    131. TickTick
    132. Wind
    133. Converter
    134. TickTick
    135. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    136. Converter
    137. TickTick
    138. Wind
    139. EelSubmarine
    140. Converter
    141. TickTick
    142. Wind ×2
    143. Converter
    144. Wind ×2
    145. Converter
    146. TickTick
    147. EelSubmarine
    148. TickTick ×3
    149. Wind
    150. TickTick ×2
    151. Wind
    152. TickTick ×2
    153. EelSubmarine
    154. TickTick ×2
    155. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    156. Energy storage
    157. TickTick
    158. Wind
    159. TickTick
    160. Wind
    161. TickTick ×2
    162. Energy storage
    163. TickTick ×2
    164. Wind
    165. TickTick
    166. Wind
    167. TickTick ×7
    168. Con turret
    169. Wind
    170. TickTick
    171. Wind
    172. TickTick ×7
    173. Wind
    174. TickTick
    175. Wind
    176. TickTick ×7
    177. Wind ×2
    178. TickTick ×7
    179. Wind ×2
    180. TickTick ×4
    181. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    182. TickTick ×3
    183. Wind
    184. TickTick
    185. Wind
    186. TickTick

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Hunfore's (33 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 7:24 · 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

Hunfore

32.7 OS · 12/10/2026

Open source match ↗

7 received units · includes a constructor
39 metal received · 19148 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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