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Standard front

Standard economy-first Front play: Bot Lab and Vehicle Plant almost immediately, Advanced Metal Extractor around 9 minutes, with a mixed T1 army of Blitz, Rocketeer, Pawn and Janus sent to hold the wider gap and then middle.

#eco · 935 distinct matches · 127 players · 75% of Armada Front games · team won 63% of 1063 · 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 935 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 0:35–8:30

    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 0:39 · 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 (40%) · centurion (37%)

    By 5:00 in all: 6 mex · 7 wind

    The example game in this phase · 22 steps
    1. LazarusLazarus
    2. TickTick
    3. Solar
    4. TickTick
    5. Mex
    6. TickTick
    7. Construction BotCon bot
    8. CenturionCenturion ×2
    9. Construction BotCon bot
    10. Mex
    11. CenturionCenturion
    12. Mex
    13. CenturionCenturion
    14. Mex
    15. Construction BotCon bot ×3
    16. RocketeerRocketeer ×4
    17. CenturionCenturion
    18. RocketeerRocketeer ×9
    19. Mex
    20. RocketeerRocketeer
    21. BeamerBeamer
    22. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
  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%) · blitz (39%) · rocketeer (39%) · 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 · 150 steps
    1. RocketeerRocketeer
    2. Wind
    3. RocketeerRocketeer
    4. Wind
    5. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    6. Wind
    7. RocketeerRocketeer
    8. Wind
    9. RocketeerRocketeer
    10. Wind
    11. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    12. Wind
    13. RocketeerRocketeer
    14. Wind
    15. RocketeerRocketeer
    16. MaceMace
    17. Wind
    18. RocketeerRocketeer
    19. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    20. Construction BotCon bot
    21. Wind
    22. Construction BotCon bot
    23. Wind
    24. GauntletGauntletdone 8:20
    25. RocketeerRocketeer
    26. Wind
    27. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    28. Wind
    29. RocketeerRocketeer
    30. Wind
    31. PawnPawn
    32. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 8:25 · typical 8:52
    33. Wind
    34. PawnPawn
    35. Wind
    36. PawnPawn
    37. Wind
    38. Mex
    39. Wind
    40. PawnPawn
    41. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    42. Wind ×2
    43. PawnPawn
    44. Wind ×3
    45. PawnPawn
    46. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    47. Wind ×2
    48. PawnPawn
    49. Wind ×2
    50. Construction BotCon bot
    51. Wind ×4
    52. Construction BotCon bot
    53. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    54. Wind ×2
    55. PawnPawn
    56. Con turret
    57. Wind
    58. PawnPawn
    59. Wind
    60. PawnPawn
    61. BeamerBeamer
    62. Wind
    63. Construction BotCon bot
    64. Con turret
    65. Wind ×2
    66. Construction BotCon bot
    67. Wind
    68. PawnPawn
    69. Energy storage
    70. PawnPawn
    71. Wind
    72. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    73. Converter
    74. PawnPawn
    75. Converter
    76. Wind
    77. PawnPawn
    78. Converter
    79. PawnPawn
    80. BeamerBeamer
    81. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 11:16 · typical 0:47
    82. Wind
    83. Converter
    84. PawnPawn
    85. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    86. Wind
    87. Con turret
    88. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    89. PawnPawn
    90. Wind
    91. PawnPawn
    92. Con turret
    93. Wind
    94. Converter
    95. PawnPawn ×2
    96. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    97. Converter
    98. Wind
    99. PawnPawn ×2
    100. Advanced Vehicle PlantAdvanced Vehicle Plantdone 12:39
    101. Wind
    102. PawnPawn
    103. Con turret
    104. Wind
    105. PawnPawn
    106. Con turret
    107. LazarusLazarus
    108. Wind
    109. Converter
    110. LazarusLazarus
    111. Wind
    112. AmbassadorAmbassadordone 12:55
    113. LazarusLazarus
    114. Wind
    115. Converter
    116. Wind
    117. PawnPawn
    118. AmbassadorAmbassador
    119. Construction BotCon bot
    120. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    121. Wind ×2
    122. Converter
    123. AmbassadorAmbassador
    124. Construction BotCon bot
    125. Wind
    126. Converter
    127. Advanced Construction VehicleT2 con vehicle
    128. PawnPawn
    129. Converter
    130. RattlesnakeRattlesnakenot finished by 15:00
    131. PawnPawn
    132. Wind
    133. PawnPawn
    134. JaguarJaguar
    135. PawnPawn
    136. Wind
    137. Converter
    138. JaguarJaguar
    139. PawnPawn
    140. JaguarJaguar
    141. PawnPawn
    142. JaguarJaguar
    143. PawnPawn ×2
    144. JaguarJaguar
    145. Converter
    146. PawnPawn ×4
    147. RattlesnakeRattlesnake
    148. PawnPawn ×11
    149. Converter
    150. PawnPawn ×9

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is OUDLES's (36 OS, 14/08/2026); 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

1063 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0033300
2:008462131
3:001624140105
4:002712540333
5:0038681188813
6:00507620991526
7:00631429842459
8:00766238713365
9:00908746324312
10:001066653085060
11:001260858195701
12:001481563136521
13:001744069817256
14:002018375848093
15:002263083948939
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

OUDLES

36.3 OS · 14/08/2026

Open source match ↗

5 received units · includes a constructor
933 metal received · 25602 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Bot Lab0:45Middle 50%: 0:35–8:30 · n=670
Vehicle Plant0:47Middle 50%: 0:37–0:59 · n=753
Advanced Metal Extractor8:52Middle 50%: 8:00–10:03 · n=845

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