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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 · 1697 distinct matches · 247 players · 74% of Armada Front games · team won 61% of 1991 · 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 1697 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 0:33–0:55

    Some games also: wind (48%) · Vehicle Plant (35%)

    By 0:28 in all: 2 mex

    The example game in this phase · 3 steps
    1. Mex ×3
    2. Wind ×3
    3. Bot LabBot Labdone 1:06 · 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 · 29 steps
    1. TickTick
    2. Solar
    3. Construction BotCon bot
    4. Solar
    5. Wind ×3
    6. Construction BotCon bot
    7. Solar
    8. TickTick ×4
    9. SentrySentry
    10. PawnPawn ×2
    11. Mex
    12. PawnPawn
    13. Con turret
    14. CenturionCenturion
    15. Mex
    16. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    17. SentrySentry
    18. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    19. Mex
    20. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    21. LazarusLazarus
    22. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    23. RocketeerRocketeer ×5
    24. Con turret
    25. Mex
    26. RocketeerRocketeer
    27. Solar
    28. Wind
    29. 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 (46%) · 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 · 111 steps
    1. Wind
    2. RocketeerRocketeer
    3. Wind
    4. RocketeerRocketeer
    5. Con turret
    6. SentrySentry
    7. Wind
    8. RocketeerRocketeer
    9. Wind ×2
    10. RocketeerRocketeer
    11. Wind
    12. RocketeerRocketeer
    13. Wind
    14. RocketeerRocketeer
    15. Radar TowerRadar Tower ×2
    16. Wind
    17. RocketeerRocketeer
    18. Con turret
    19. Wind
    20. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    21. Energy storage
    22. RocketeerRocketeer
    23. GauntletGauntletnot finished by 15:00
    24. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 8:08 · typical 9:01
    25. RocketeerRocketeer
    26. Energy storage
    27. BeamerBeamer
    28. LazarusLazarus
    29. Wind
    30. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    31. Wind
    32. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    33. RocketeerRocketeer
    34. LazarusLazarus
    35. RocketeerRocketeer
    36. Wind
    37. RocketeerRocketeer
    38. NettleNettle
    39. RocketeerRocketeer
    40. NettleNettle
    41. RocketeerRocketeer
    42. Wind
    43. GauntletGauntlet
    44. Mex
    45. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    46. Wind
    47. LazarusLazarus
    48. RocketeerRocketeer
    49. GauntletGauntlet
    50. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    51. RocketeerRocketeer
    52. Wind
    53. RocketeerRocketeer
    54. Wind
    55. LazarusLazarus
    56. BeamerBeamer
    57. Wind
    58. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    59. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    60. Wind
    61. RocketeerRocketeer
    62. CenturionCenturion
    63. Wind
    64. CenturionCenturion
    65. RocketeerRocketeer
    66. Wind
    67. RocketeerRocketeer
    68. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    69. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    70. Wind
    71. Construction BotCon bot
    72. Mex
    73. Construction BotCon bot
    74. Con turret
    75. Wind
    76. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    77. Construction BotCon bot
    78. Con turret
    79. Advanced solar
    80. Wind
    81. Con turret
    82. Construction BotCon bot
    83. Con turret
    84. Wind
    85. RocketeerRocketeer
    86. VeilVeil
    87. Advanced solar
    88. RocketeerRocketeer
    89. Wind
    90. Advanced solar ×2
    91. RocketeerRocketeer
    92. Wind
    93. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    94. Advanced solar
    95. RocketeerRocketeer
    96. CenturionCenturion
    97. TickTick
    98. Advanced solar
    99. TickTick ×2
    100. Advanced solar ×2
    101. TickTick ×2
    102. Advanced solar
    103. TickTick ×6
    104. Wind
    105. TickTick ×7
    106. Converter
    107. TickTick ×3
    108. Converter
    109. TickTick
    110. Converter
    111. TickTick

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is cooolcat1239's (31 OS, 02/10/2026); 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 7:23 · 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

1991 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0033300
2:008402131
3:001618135108
4:002699522333
5:0038471127787
6:00503519231426
7:00625127172302
8:00753535453173
9:00897343264069
10:001053850054807
11:001237355335546
12:001452759766406
13:001685764686999
14:001922071817826
15:002185478698687
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

cooolcat1239

30.7 OS · 02/10/2026

Open source match ↗

9 received units · includes a constructor
254 metal received · 90578 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Bot Lab0:44Middle 50%: 0:33–0:55 · n=1329
Vehicle Plant0:47Middle 50%: 0:41–1:14 · n=1284
Advanced Metal Extractor9:01Middle 50%: 8:09–10:15 · n=1562

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