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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 · 1 step
    1. Mex ×3
  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 · 29 steps
    1. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 0:49 · typical 0:47
    2. RoverScout
    3. Wind
    4. RoverScout
    5. BlitzBlitz
    6. Wind ×2
    7. BlitzBlitz
    8. Construction VehicleCon vehicle ×2
    9. Mex
    10. WhistlerMissile truck
    11. JanusJanus
    12. Mex
    13. WhistlerMissile truck
    14. Wind
    15. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    16. WhistlerMissile truck
    17. Mex
    18. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    19. JanusJanus
    20. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×3
    21. WhistlerMissile truck
    22. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    23. WhistlerMissile truck
    24. JanusJanus
    25. WhistlerMissile truck ×2
    26. JanusJanus
    27. WhistlerMissile truck ×2
    28. JanusJanus
    29. WhistlerMissile truck
  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 · 146 steps
    1. Construction VehicleCon vehicle ×2
    2. Energy storage
    3. Construction VehicleCon vehicle ×2
    4. Metal storage
    5. BlitzBlitz ×3
    6. Wind
    7. BlitzBlitz ×2
    8. Wind
    9. BlitzBlitz
    10. Wind
    11. BlitzBlitz
    12. Wind
    13. BlitzBlitz
    14. Wind
    15. BlitzBlitz ×2
    16. Wind
    17. BlitzBlitz
    18. Wind
    19. BlitzBlitz
    20. Converter
    21. Wind
    22. BlitzBlitz ×2
    23. Converter
    24. Wind
    25. BlitzBlitz
    26. Wind
    27. BlitzBlitz
    28. Converter
    29. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:07 · typical 9:00
    30. Wind
    31. BlitzBlitz ×2
    32. Converter
    33. Wind
    34. BlitzBlitz ×2
    35. Wind
    36. Converter
    37. BlitzBlitz
    38. Wind
    39. BlitzBlitz
    40. Converter
    41. Con turret
    42. BlitzBlitz
    43. Wind ×2
    44. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    45. Converter
    46. BlitzBlitz
    47. Wind
    48. Converter
    49. BlitzBlitz ×2
    50. Converter
    51. BlitzBlitz ×2
    52. Converter
    53. BlitzBlitz
    54. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    55. BlitzBlitz
    56. Converter
    57. BlitzBlitz
    58. Converter
    59. BlitzBlitz ×2
    60. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    61. BlitzBlitz
    62. Converter
    63. BlitzBlitz
    64. Converter
    65. BlitzBlitz
    66. Wind
    67. Converter
    68. BlitzBlitz
    69. Wind
    70. Converter
    71. BlitzBlitz
    72. Wind
    73. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    74. BlitzBlitz
    75. Wind
    76. RoverScout ×2
    77. Wind
    78. RoverScout
    79. Wind
    80. RoverScout
    81. SentrySentry
    82. Wind
    83. RoverScout
    84. Wind
    85. RoverScout ×2
    86. Wind
    87. SentrySentry
    88. RoverScout
    89. Wind
    90. RoverScout
    91. Wind
    92. RoverScout
    93. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    94. RoverScout
    95. Wind ×2
    96. RoverScout ×2
    97. Wind
    98. RoverScout
    99. Wind
    100. RoverScout ×2
    101. Wind
    102. RoverScout
    103. Wind
    104. RoverScout
    105. Wind
    106. RoverScout
    107. FerretFerret
    108. Wind
    109. RoverScout ×2
    110. Wind
    111. RattlesnakeRattlesnakedone 13:39
    112. RoverScout
    113. Wind
    114. RoverScout ×2
    115. Wind ×2
    116. RoverScout ×2
    117. Wind
    118. RoverScout
    119. Wind
    120. RoverScout ×2
    121. Wind
    122. RoverScout
    123. Wind
    124. RoverScout ×2
    125. Wind ×2
    126. RoverScout ×2
    127. Wind
    128. RoverScout
    129. Wind
    130. RoverScout ×2
    131. Wind ×2
    132. RoverScout ×3
    133. Wind ×2
    134. RoverScout ×2
    135. Wind
    136. RoverScout
    137. Wind
    138. RoverScout ×2
    139. Con turret
    140. Wind ×2
    141. RoverScout
    142. Hardened Metal Storage
    143. RoverScout ×2
    144. Con turret
    145. Wind
    146. RoverScout ×2

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is DrSmack's (32 OS, 10/10/2026); 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

DrSmack

32.1 OS · 10/10/2026

Open source match ↗

6 received units · includes a constructor
224 metal received · 28046 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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