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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 0:37 · 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
    2. Mex
    3. TickTick ×4
    4. PawnPawn
    5. Wind
    6. LazarusLazarus
    7. Construction BotCon bot
    8. Wind
    9. CenturionCenturion ×2
    10. Construction BotCon bot
    11. Mex
    12. Construction BotCon bot
    13. Mex
    14. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    15. TickTick
    16. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    17. Mex
    18. SentrySentry ×2
    19. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    20. SentrySentry
    21. TickTick
    22. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    23. SentrySentry
    24. TickTick
    25. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    26. TickTick
    27. Construction BotCon bot
    28. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    29. TickTick
    30. RocketeerRocketeer
  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 · 50 steps
    1. SentrySentry
    2. RocketeerRocketeer
    3. TickTick
    4. SentrySentry
    5. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    6. SentrySentry
    7. TickTick
    8. RocketeerRocketeer
    9. SentrySentry
    10. RocketeerRocketeer
    11. TickTick
    12. RocketeerRocketeer
    13. PawnPawn ×8
    14. RocketeerRocketeer
    15. TickTick
    16. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    17. Mex
    18. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    19. Construction BotCon bot
    20. BeamerBeamer
    21. Construction BotCon bot
    22. Mex
    23. BeamerBeamer
    24. TickTick
    25. RocketeerRocketeer
    26. BeamerBeamer
    27. RocketeerRocketeer
    28. TickTick
    29. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    30. BeamerBeamer
    31. TickTick
    32. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    33. TickTick
    34. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    35. SentrySentry
    36. TickTick
    37. RocketeerRocketeer
    38. BeamerBeamer
    39. PawnPawn ×4
    40. BeamerBeamer
    41. RocketeerRocketeer
    42. Mex
    43. TickTick
    44. RocketeerRocketeer
    45. BeamerBeamer
    46. RocketeerRocketeer
    47. TickTick ×7
    48. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    49. Mex
    50. Bot LabEat Bot Labreclaimed for its metal

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is SW33T_JP's (30 OS, 05/09/2026); 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

SW33T_JP

30.1 OS · 05/09/2026

Open source match ↗

5 received units
136 metal received · 13228 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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