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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 · 1709 distinct matches · 249 players · 74% of Armada Front games · team won 61% of 2004 · 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 1709 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. Bot LabBot Labdone 0:26 · 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 · 43 steps
    1. TickTick
    2. Wind
    3. TickTickfor Pond
    4. Wind
    5. TickTickfor Pond
    6. Mex
    7. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    8. Mex
    9. LazarusLazarus
    10. CenturionCenturion ×2
    11. Mex
    12. LazarusLazarus
    13. Con turret
    14. Mex
    15. Construction BotCon bot
    16. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    17. SentrySentry
    18. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    19. Mex
    20. Energy storage
    21. RocketeerRocketeer
    22. Wind
    23. RocketeerRocketeer
    24. Wind
    25. RocketeerRocketeer
    26. SentrySentry
    27. Wind
    28. RocketeerRocketeer
    29. Wind ×2
    30. Con turret
    31. RocketeerRocketeer
    32. Wind
    33. RocketeerRocketeer
    34. Wind
    35. RocketeerRocketeer
    36. Wind
    37. RocketeerRocketeer
    38. Converter
    39. LazarusLazarus
    40. Converter
    41. RocketeerRocketeer
    42. Converter
    43. Wind
  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 (38%) · Radar Tower (36%)

    By 10:00 in all: 7 mex · 24 wind · 1 energy storage · 3 con turret

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

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is XuunnY's (32 OS, 12/10/2026); 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

2004 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0033300
2:008402131
3:001619135109
4:002700522333
5:0038471126783
6:00503519371427
7:00625027262302
8:00753535483173
9:00897543324071
10:001055050154810
11:001238455405547
12:001453759986404
13:001688964946999
14:001926072177829
15:002185578738701
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

XuunnY

32.0 OS · 12/10/2026

Open source match ↗

5 received units · includes a constructor
445 metal received · 63636 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=1341
Vehicle Plant0:47Middle 50%: 0:41–1:14 · n=1292
Advanced Metal Extractor9:00Middle 50%: 8:09–10:15 · n=1575

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