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Armada Front build order · Supreme Isthmus

Standard economy-first Front play: Bot Lab and Vehicle Plant up almost immediately, Advanced Metal Extractor around 9 minutes, with Blitz, Rocketeer, Pawn and Janus trickling out to hold and push the middle over the full 15 minutes.

#eco · 1186 distinct matches · 145 players · 75% of Armada Front games · team won 62% of 1353 · 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 1186 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 0:35–8:13

    Some games also: Vehicle Plant (41%)

    By 0:28 in all: 2 mex · 1 wind

    The example game in this phase · 1 step
    1. Bot LabBot Labdone 0:20 · typical 0:45
  2. 2

    Bot Lab to 5:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor4Mex
    • Wind Turbine3Wind
    Army
    • Sentry1 Sentry

    Some games also: rocketeer (46%) · con bot (45%) · Lazarus (44%) · tick (42%) · centurion (37%)

    By 5:00 in all: 6 mex · 7 wind

    The example game in this phase · 34 steps
    1. Mex
    2. TickTick ×2
    3. Wind
    4. TickTick
    5. Wind
    6. PawnPawn
    7. Construction BotCon bot
    8. Mex
    9. Construction BotCon bot
    10. Mex
    11. Construction BotCon bot
    12. Mex
    13. LazarusLazarus
    14. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    15. Mex
    16. RocketeerRocketeer ×4
    17. Mex
    18. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    19. SentrySentry
    20. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    21. SentrySentry
    22. RocketeerRocketeer
    23. SentrySentry
    24. RocketeerRocketeer
    25. SentrySentry
    26. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    27. SentrySentry
    28. RocketeerRocketeer
    29. SentrySentry
    30. RocketeerRocketeer
    31. SentrySentry ×2
    32. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    33. SentrySentry
    34. RocketeerRocketeer ×6
  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 (46%) · rocketeer (40%) · blitz (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 · 101 steps
    1. RocketeerRocketeer ×11
    2. LazarusLazarus
    3. Wind
    4. LazarusLazarus
    5. RocketeerRocketeer
    6. Wind
    7. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    8. Wind
    9. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    10. Wind
    11. RocketeerRocketeer
    12. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 8:05 · typical 8:53
    13. RocketeerRocketeer
    14. LazarusLazarus
    15. Wind
    16. LazarusLazarus
    17. Wind
    18. LazarusLazarus
    19. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    20. Wind
    21. LazarusLazarus
    22. Wind
    23. LazarusLazarus
    24. Wind
    25. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    26. Construction BotCon bot
    27. Wind
    28. Construction BotCon bot
    29. Con turret
    30. Wind
    31. Construction BotCon bot
    32. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    33. Wind ×2
    34. PawnPawn
    35. Wind ×2
    36. PawnPawn ×2
    37. Wind
    38. PawnPawn
    39. Wind
    40. PawnPawn
    41. Wind
    42. PawnPawn
    43. Wind
    44. PawnPawn
    45. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    46. Wind
    47. PawnPawn
    48. Wind
    49. PawnPawn
    50. Wind
    51. PawnPawn
    52. Wind
    53. PawnPawn
    54. Con turret
    55. Wind
    56. PawnPawn ×2
    57. Con turret
    58. Wind
    59. Con turret
    60. PawnPawn
    61. SentrySentry
    62. PawnPawn
    63. Wind
    64. PawnPawn
    65. SentrySentry
    66. PawnPawn ×2
    67. Energy storage
    68. PawnPawn
    69. Con turret
    70. SentrySentry
    71. Con turret
    72. PawnPawn ×3
    73. SentrySentry
    74. PawnPawn ×4
    75. Bot LabBot Labdone 13:05
    76. PawnPawn ×2
    77. SentrySentry
    78. PawnPawn ×5
    79. Wind
    80. PawnPawn
    81. Wind ×2
    82. PawnPawn
    83. Wind
    84. PawnPawn
    85. Wind ×2
    86. PawnPawn
    87. Wind ×2
    88. PawnPawn
    89. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    90. Wind ×2
    91. PawnPawn
    92. Wind
    93. PawnPawn
    94. Wind
    95. PawnPawn ×8
    96. Wind
    97. PawnPawn ×2
    98. Wind
    99. PawnPawn ×2
    100. Wind
    101. PawnPawn ×6

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is TrapCaT's (42 OS, 11/10/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

Nothing regular.

You get

  • Tidal Generator4 Tidal from Pondfirst at 0:18 · 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

1353 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0033300
2:008442131
3:001621143105
4:002709545333
5:0038551200813
6:00506020801512
7:00629929412450
8:00762437803332
9:00906046094251
10:001066152434952
11:001259157465677
12:001477463056491
13:001737669067192
14:002008975638079
15:002265682958940
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

TrapCaT

41.9 OS · 11/10/2026

Open source match ↗

7 received units · includes a constructor
269 metal received · 9943 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Bot Lab0:45Middle 50%: 0:35–8:13 · n=857
Vehicle Plant0:47Middle 50%: 0:40–0:58 · n=946
Advanced Metal Extractor8:53Middle 50%: 8:02–10:00 · n=1079

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