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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 · 3 steps
    1. Mex ×2
    2. Wind
    3. Bot LabBot Labdone 0:45 · 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 · 30 steps
    1. TickTick ×5
    2. LazarusLazarus ×2
    3. PawnPawn ×5
    4. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    5. Mex
    6. Construction BotCon bot
    7. RocketeerRocketeer
    8. Mex
    9. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    10. RocketeerRocketeer
    11. Mex
    12. MaceMace
    13. SentrySentry
    14. RocketeerRocketeer
    15. SentrySentry
    16. RocketeerRocketeer
    17. Mex
    18. MaceMace
    19. LazarusLazarus
    20. RocketeerRocketeer
    21. Construction BotCon bot
    22. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    23. Mex
    24. MaceMace
    25. SentrySentry
    26. RocketeerRocketeer
    27. SentrySentry
    28. RocketeerRocketeer
    29. MaceMace
    30. LazarusLazarus
  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 · 143 steps
    1. RocketeerRocketeer
    2. Construction BotCon bot
    3. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    4. SentrySentry
    5. MaceMace
    6. RocketeerRocketeer
    7. SentrySentry
    8. RocketeerRocketeer
    9. MaceMace
    10. LazarusLazarus
    11. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    12. MaceMace
    13. LazarusLazarus
    14. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    15. MaceMace
    16. LazarusLazarus
    17. RocketeerRocketeer
    18. Wind
    19. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    20. LazarusLazarus
    21. SentrySentry
    22. Wind
    23. SentrySentry
    24. RocketeerRocketeer
    25. LazarusLazarus
    26. SentrySentry
    27. Wind
    28. Construction BotCon bot
    29. MaceMace
    30. CenturionCenturion
    31. Wind
    32. SentrySentry
    33. RocketeerRocketeer
    34. Wind
    35. RocketeerRocketeer
    36. SentrySentry
    37. LazarusLazarus
    38. SentrySentry
    39. RocketeerRocketeer
    40. Wind
    41. LazarusLazarus
    42. MaceMace
    43. Mex
    44. CenturionCenturion
    45. Wind
    46. RocketeerRocketeer
    47. Wind
    48. RocketeerRocketeer
    49. LazarusLazarus
    50. RocketeerRocketeer
    51. Wind
    52. SentrySentry
    53. LazarusLazarus
    54. Wind
    55. Con turret
    56. Energy storage
    57. SentrySentry
    58. RocketeerRocketeer
    59. SentrySentry
    60. CenturionCenturion
    61. Wind
    62. SentrySentry
    63. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 11:24
    64. Con turret
    65. Wind
    66. Mex
    67. Construction BotCon bot
    68. Wind
    69. Construction BotCon bot
    70. Wind
    71. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    72. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    73. Wind
    74. LazarusLazarus
    75. Con turret
    76. Wind
    77. Con turret
    78. RocketeerRocketeer
    79. Wind
    80. LazarusLazarus ×2
    81. Wind
    82. PawnPawn
    83. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    84. Construction BotCon bot
    85. Wind
    86. PawnPawn ×3
    87. Wind
    88. PawnPawn ×4
    89. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    90. PawnPawn
    91. Wind
    92. PawnPawn
    93. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 13:01 · typical 0:47
    94. LazarusLazarus
    95. Wind
    96. BlitzBlitz
    97. Con turret
    98. TickTick
    99. Wind
    100. TickTick
    101. Con turret
    102. BlitzBlitz
    103. TickTick
    104. Con turret
    105. TickTick
    106. Con turret
    107. TickTick
    108. BlitzBlitz
    109. TickTick
    110. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    111. TickTick
    112. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    113. Wind ×2
    114. TickTick
    115. Con turret
    116. Wind
    117. TickTick
    118. BlitzBlitz
    119. Wind
    120. TickTick
    121. Converter
    122. LazarusLazarus
    123. BlitzBlitz
    124. Wind
    125. TickTick
    126. BlitzBlitz
    127. TickTick
    128. Wind
    129. BlitzBlitz
    130. TickTick ×2
    131. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    132. BlitzBlitz
    133. TickTick
    134. Wind
    135. BlitzBlitz
    136. TickTick
    137. Wind
    138. TickTick
    139. BlitzBlitz
    140. TickTick
    141. BlitzBlitz
    142. TickTick
    143. Wind

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is NoobSlayer's (31 OS, 20/08/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

Nothing regular.

You get

  • Tidal Generator4 Tidal from Pondfirst at 0:17 · 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

NoobSlayer

31.3 OS · 20/08/2026

Open source match ↗

8 received units · includes a constructor
46 metal received · 57786 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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