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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 · 956 distinct matches · 128 players · 75% of Armada Front games · team won 63% of 1089 · 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 956 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 0:35–8:32

    Some games also: Vehicle Plant (42%)

    By 0:28 in all: 2 mex · 1 wind

    The example game in this phase · 2 steps
    1. Mex
    2. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 0:29 · typical 0:47
  2. 2

    Bot Lab to 5:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor4Mex
    • Wind Turbine3Wind
    Army
    • Sentry1 Sentry

    Some games also: rocketeer (45%) · con bot (44%) · Lazarus (44%) · tick (40%) · centurion (36%)

    By 5:00 in all: 6 mex · 7 wind

    The example game in this phase · 33 steps
    1. RoverScout
    2. Wind ×2
    3. RoverScout
    4. Wind
    5. RoverScout
    6. BlitzBlitz
    7. Mex
    8. Construction VehicleCon vehicle ×2
    9. Mex
    10. JanusJanus
    11. Mex
    12. JanusJanus
    13. WhistlerMissile truck
    14. RoverScout ×4
    15. StoutStout
    16. WhistlerMissile truck
    17. Mex
    18. WhistlerMissile truck
    19. SentrySentry
    20. Wind
    21. WhistlerMissile truck
    22. Wind
    23. Mex
    24. WhistlerMissile truck ×2
    25. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    26. SentrySentry
    27. WhistlerMissile truck
    28. Con turret
    29. WhistlerMissile truck
    30. Mex
    31. WhistlerMissile truck
    32. SentrySentry
    33. WhistlerMissile truck ×2
  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 (47%) · blitz (38%) · rocketeer (38%) · 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 · 81 steps
    1. WhistlerMissile truck ×2
    2. Mex
    3. SentrySentry
    4. WhistlerMissile truck
    5. SentrySentry
    6. WhistlerMissile truck ×2
    7. Wind
    8. WhistlerMissile truck
    9. BlitzBlitz
    10. Mex
    11. Wind
    12. BlitzBlitz ×2
    13. Wind
    14. BlitzBlitz
    15. Wind ×2
    16. BlitzBlitz
    17. BeamerBeamer
    18. Wind
    19. BlitzBlitz ×2
    20. SentrySentry
    21. Energy storage
    22. BlitzBlitz ×3
    23. Con turret
    24. BlitzBlitz
    25. Solar
    26. BlitzBlitz ×3
    27. Wind
    28. BeamerBeamer
    29. BlitzBlitz
    30. Wind
    31. BlitzBlitz
    32. Wind
    33. BlitzBlitz
    34. Wind
    35. BlitzBlitz
    36. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:36 · typical 8:53
    37. BlitzBlitz
    38. Wind
    39. BlitzBlitz
    40. Con turret
    41. Wind
    42. BlitzBlitz ×2
    43. Con turret
    44. BlitzBlitz
    45. Wind
    46. BlitzBlitz
    47. Wind
    48. BlitzBlitz ×3
    49. Wind ×2
    50. BlitzBlitz
    51. Wind
    52. BlitzBlitz
    53. Wind
    54. BlitzBlitz
    55. Wind
    56. BlitzBlitz
    57. Wind
    58. RoverScout
    59. Wind
    60. RoverScout
    61. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    62. RoverScout
    63. Wind ×2
    64. RoverScout
    65. Wind
    66. RoverScout
    67. Wind
    68. RoverScout ×2
    69. BlitzBlitz
    70. Wind ×2
    71. BlitzBlitz
    72. Wind ×2
    73. BlitzBlitz ×2
    74. Wind ×2
    75. BlitzBlitz ×3
    76. Wind ×2
    77. BlitzBlitz ×2
    78. Wind
    79. BlitzBlitz ×2
    80. Wind ×2
    81. BlitzBlitz ×2

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Gieds's (47 OS, 15/09/2026); 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

1089 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0033300
2:008452131
3:001623141105
4:002712543333
5:0038681199818
6:00507821201534
7:00632830062457
8:00766238713361
9:00908746384329
10:001066653235062
11:001262258385711
12:001483463856544
13:001745070287287
14:002018376558104
15:002266984148946
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

Gieds

47.2 OS · 15/09/2026

Open source match ↗

7 received units · includes a constructor
344 metal received · 14490 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Bot Lab0:45Middle 50%: 0:35–8:32 · n=686
Vehicle Plant0:47Middle 50%: 0:37–0:57 · n=774
Advanced Metal Extractor8:53Middle 50%: 8:01–10:03 · n=869

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