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

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is [MADO]SovietRabbit's (34 OS, 02/09/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

Nothing regular.

You get

  • Tidal Generator4 Tidal from Pondfirst at 0:17 · 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

[MADO]SovietRabbit

33.8 OS · 02/09/2026

Open source match ↗

5 received units · includes a constructor
182 metal received · 7890 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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