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Standard front

Armada Front build order · Supreme Isthmus

Standard Front economy-first opening with Bot Lab and Vehicle Plant thrown down almost immediately, transitioning into a mixed Blitz/Rocketeer/Pawn/Janus army feeding the middle over the game.

#eco · 1007 distinct matches · 135 players · 75% of Armada Front games · team won 63% of 1154 · Recently observed

HOW TO PLAY IT

Key timing: Vehicle Plant by 0:47

  1. Open 3 mex then Bot Lab and Vehicle Plant almost together.
  2. Layer wind while both labs start producing.
  3. Send early units to coast first to stop leaks, not middle.
  4. Add Construction Turrets as "Blitz", "Rocketeer", "Janus" mix builds up.
  5. Transition into Advanced Metal Extractor once T2 con is out.

Phase by phase

TYPICAL OF ITS 1007 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 0:35–8:32

    Some games also: Vehicle Plant (41%)

    By 0:28 in all: 2 mex · 1 wind

    The example game in this phase · 3 steps
    1. Mex ×2
    2. Wind
    3. Bot LabBot Labdone 0:41 · 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 (44%) · Lazarus (44%) · tick (41%) · centurion (37%)

    By 5:00 in all: 6 mex · 7 wind

    The example game in this phase · 24 steps
    1. TickTickfor Pond
    2. PawnPawn ×2
    3. Mex
    4. Wind ×2
    5. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    6. TickTick ×2
    7. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    8. CenturionCenturion
    9. Mex
    10. RocketeerRocketeer
    11. Mex
    12. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    13. Mex
    14. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    15. SentrySentryfor Suicide front
    16. RocketeerRocketeer
    17. SentrySentryfor Suicide front
    18. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    19. BeamerBeamer
    20. RocketeerRocketeer ×7
    21. Construction BotCon bot
    22. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    23. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    24. RocketeerRocketeer ×4
  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 (39%) · blitz (38%) · pawn (36%) · Lazarus (36%)

    By 10:00 in all: 7 mex · 25 wind · 1 energy storage · 3 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 237 steps
    1. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    2. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    3. RocketeerRocketeer ×4
    4. SentrySentry
    5. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    6. Construction BotCon bot ×3
    7. Mex
    8. Construction BotCon bot
    9. Con turret
    10. Wind
    11. Mex
    12. Con turret
    13. RocketeerRocketeer
    14. Wind
    15. RocketeerRocketeer
    16. Wind ×2
    17. RocketeerRocketeer
    18. Wind
    19. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    20. Wind
    21. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    22. Wind
    23. SentrySentry
    24. RocketeerRocketeer
    25. BeamerBeamer
    26. Wind
    27. RocketeerRocketeer
    28. Wind
    29. RocketeerRocketeer
    30. Wind
    31. RocketeerRocketeer
    32. SentrySentry
    33. Wind
    34. RocketeerRocketeer
    35. LazarusLazarus
    36. Wind
    37. Con turret
    38. Energy storage
    39. LazarusLazarus
    40. SentrySentry
    41. Wind
    42. RocketeerRocketeer
    43. Wind
    44. SentrySentry
    45. Wind
    46. RocketeerRocketeer
    47. BeamerBeamer
    48. Wind
    49. RocketeerRocketeer
    50. Wind ×2
    51. RocketeerRocketeer
    52. Wind
    53. RocketeerRocketeer
    54. Wind
    55. RocketeerRocketeer
    56. Wind ×2
    57. RocketeerRocketeer
    58. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:32 · typical 8:54
    59. Wind
    60. RocketeerRocketeer
    61. Wind ×2
    62. RocketeerRocketeer
    63. Wind ×2
    64. BeamerBeamer
    65. RocketeerRocketeer
    66. Wind ×2
    67. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    68. RocketeerRocketeer
    69. Wind ×2
    70. Converter
    71. RocketeerRocketeer
    72. Wind
    73. BeamerBeamer
    74. RocketeerRocketeer
    75. Wind ×2
    76. RocketeerRocketeer
    77. Wind
    78. RocketeerRocketeer
    79. Wind ×2
    80. BeamerBeamer
    81. RocketeerRocketeer
    82. Wind
    83. RocketeerRocketeer
    84. Converter
    85. Wind ×2
    86. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    87. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    88. Wind
    89. BeamerBeamer
    90. RocketeerRocketeer
    91. Converter
    92. Wind
    93. RocketeerRocketeer
    94. Converter
    95. Wind
    96. RocketeerRocketeer
    97. Sneaky PeteSneaky Pete
    98. Wind ×2
    99. Converter
    100. RocketeerRocketeer
    101. Wind ×2
    102. Converter
    103. RocketeerRocketeer
    104. Wind ×2
    105. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    106. RocketeerRocketeer
    107. Wind ×2
    108. Construction BotCon bot
    109. TickTick ×2
    110. Wind ×2
    111. TickTick
    112. Wind
    113. Bot LabBot Labdone 11:41
    114. TickTick ×2
    115. Wind
    116. TickTick
    117. Wind
    118. TickTick
    119. Converter
    120. Wind
    121. TickTick ×2
    122. Wind
    123. Converter
    124. TickTick
    125. Wind
    126. TickTick
    127. Converter
    128. Con turret
    129. TickTick
    130. Wind
    131. TickTick
    132. Wind
    133. TickTick
    134. Converter
    135. Fusion ReactorFusiondone 14:46
    136. TickTick
    137. Wind
    138. TickTick
    139. Wind
    140. Con turret
    141. TickTick
    142. PawnPawn
    143. Wind
    144. TickTick
    145. PawnPawn
    146. TickTick
    147. Con turret
    148. Wind
    149. PawnPawn
    150. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    151. TickTick
    152. PawnPawn
    153. TickTick ×2
    154. Con turret
    155. Wind
    156. Converter
    157. TickTick
    158. Sneaky PeteSneaky Pete
    159. PawnPawn
    160. Con turret
    161. TickTick
    162. Wind
    163. TickTick
    164. PawnPawn
    165. TickTick
    166. PawnPawn
    167. TickTick
    168. PawnPawn
    169. TickTick
    170. PawnPawn
    171. Wind
    172. TickTick
    173. PawnPawn
    174. TickTick
    175. PawnPawn
    176. TickTick
    177. PawnPawn
    178. TickTick
    179. PawnPawn
    180. Wind
    181. TickTick
    182. PawnPawn
    183. TickTick
    184. PawnPawn
    185. TickTick
    186. Converter
    187. PawnPawn
    188. TickTick
    189. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    190. PawnPawn
    191. TickTick
    192. Wind
    193. PawnPawn
    194. Converter
    195. TickTick
    196. Converter
    197. TickTick
    198. Converter
    199. TickTick
    200. PawnPawn
    201. Wind
    202. TickTick
    203. Converter
    204. TickTick
    205. PawnPawn
    206. TickTick
    207. PawnPawn
    208. TickTick
    209. Wind
    210. TickTick
    211. PawnPawn
    212. TickTick
    213. PawnPawn
    214. TickTick
    215. PawnPawn
    216. TickTick
    217. Con turret
    218. Wind
    219. TickTick
    220. Con turret
    221. TickTick
    222. PawnPawn
    223. TickTick
    224. PawnPawn
    225. Con turret
    226. TickTick ×2
    227. Converter
    228. PawnPawn
    229. TickTick ×2
    230. PawnPawn
    231. Con turret
    232. RattlesnakeRattlesnakenot finished by 15:00
    233. TickTick ×2
    234. Converter
    235. Con turret ×2
    236. Converter
    237. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantnot finished by 15:00 · typical 0:48

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Slump's (40 OS, 09/09/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

Nothing regular.

You get

  • Tidal Generator4 Tidal from Pondfirst at 0:18 · in 68% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Geo or Techfirst at 7:18 · 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

1154 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0033300
2:008482131
3:001625141105
4:002715542333
5:0038651200821
6:00507421121523
7:00631429852452
8:00763738533361
9:00907946814319
10:001068453295064
11:001259858205719
12:001482163656527
13:001741969967244
14:002017276218099
15:002267783768960
WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY

Standard Front play wins more often than suicide front and produces more metal by 15:00, reflecting its safer positioning.

  • + Metal produced reaches 22219 by 15:00, above suicide front's 19882
  • + Own losses of 8949 stay under enemy metal destroyed's near-equal 8347
  • − First unit lost by 1:44 shows exposure even from the safer side
  • − Wider gap to defend demands disciplined coast-then-mid unit movement
THE EXAMPLE YOU ARE READING

Slump

40.4 OS · 09/09/2026

Open source match ↗

5 received units · includes a constructor
46 metal received · 44715 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Bot Lab0:45Middle 50%: 0:35–8:32 · n=730
Vehicle Plant0:48Middle 50%: 0:37–0:58 · n=817
Advanced Metal Extractor8:54Middle 50%: 8:02–10:01 · n=923

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