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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 · 1699 distinct matches · 247 players · 74% of Armada Front games · team won 61% of 1993 · 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 1699 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 0:33–0:54

    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 ×2
    2. Windfor Suicide front
    3. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 0:43 · typical 0:47
  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 · 32 steps
    1. RoverScout ×5
    2. Construction VehicleCon vehiclefor Suicide front
    3. SentrySentryfor Suicide front
    4. RoverScout
    5. Mex
    6. RoverScout
    7. Radar TowerRadar Towerfor Suicide front
    8. RoverScout ×3
    9. Construction VehicleCon vehiclefor Suicide front
    10. Mex
    11. Construction VehicleCon vehiclefor Suicide front
    12. Mex
    13. StoutStout
    14. JanusJanus
    15. SentrySentry
    16. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    17. Windfor Suicide front
    18. JanusJanus
    19. SentrySentry
    20. Wind ×2for Suicide front
    21. JanusJanus
    22. Wind ×3for Suicide front
    23. BlitzBlitz
    24. Wind
    25. Converterfor Suicide front
    26. BlitzBlitz ×2
    27. Energy storagefor Suicide front
    28. BlitzBlitz
    29. Windfor Suicide front
    30. BlitzBlitz
    31. Windfor Suicide front
    32. BlitzBlitz
  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 · 60 steps
    1. BlitzBlitz
    2. Construction VehicleCon vehiclefor Suicide front
    3. Wind ×2for Suicide front
    4. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    5. Wind ×2for Suicide front
    6. BlitzBlitz ×2
    7. Windfor Suicide front
    8. BlitzBlitz
    9. Windfor Suicide front
    10. Radar TowerRadar Towerfor Suicide front
    11. Windfor Suicide front
    12. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexfor Suicide frontdone 8:22 · typical 9:01
    13. BeamerBeamerfor Suicide front
    14. Windfor Suicide front
    15. BlitzBlitz ×3
    16. WhistlerMissile truck
    17. Wind
    18. OverwatchOverwatchfor Suicide front
    19. WhistlerMissile truck ×2
    20. Vehicle PlantEat Vehicle Plantreclaimed for its metal
    21. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexfor Suicide front
    22. Con turretfor Suicide front
    23. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexfor Suicide front
    24. Con turret ×2for Suicide front
    25. Bot LabBot Labfor Suicide frontdone 10:03 · typical 0:44
    26. TickTick
    27. Bot LabBot Labfor Suicide frontdone 10:20
    28. TickTick ×13
    29. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexfor Suicide front
    30. TickTick ×2
    31. Construction BotCon bot ×2for Suicide front
    32. TickTick ×31
    33. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexfor Suicide front
    34. TickTick ×14
    35. Con turretfor Suicide front
    36. Windfor Suicide front
    37. TickTick ×3
    38. Windfor Suicide front
    39. TickTick ×6
    40. Windfor Suicide front
    41. TickTick ×5
    42. Windfor Suicide front
    43. TickTick ×5
    44. Windfor Suicide front
    45. TickTick ×2
    46. TickTickfor Suicide front
    47. TickTick
    48. TickTick ×3for Suicide front
    49. Windfor Suicide front
    50. TickTickfor Suicide front
    51. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexfor Suicide front
    52. TickTick ×2for Suicide front
    53. Solar ×2for Suicide front
    54. TickTickfor Suicide front
    55. Windfor Suicide front
    56. TickTick ×3for Suicide front
    57. Windfor Suicide front
    58. TickTick ×6for Suicide front
    59. Windfor Suicide front
    60. TickTick ×4for Suicide front

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Thors_Hammer's (30 OS, 27/09/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

Nothing regular.

You get

  • Tidal Generator4 Tidal from Pondfirst at 0:17 · 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

1993 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
6:00503519231427
7:00624927142302
8:00753435443173
9:00897343264069
10:001053850054807
11:001237355335547
12:001452759766408
13:001685764686999
14:001922071637826
15:002185478688687
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

Thors_Hammer

30.4 OS · 27/09/2026

Open source match ↗

6 received units · includes a constructor
197 metal received · 10749 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Bot Lab0:44Middle 50%: 0:33–0:54 · n=1331
Vehicle Plant0:47Middle 50%: 0:41–1:14 · n=1285
Advanced Metal Extractor9:01Middle 50%: 8:09–10:15 · n=1563

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