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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 · 1700 distinct matches · 248 players · 74% of Armada Front games · team won 61% of 1994 · 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 1700 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
    2. Wind ×2
  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 · 27 steps
    1. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 0:47 · typical 0:47
    2. RoverScout
    3. Mex
    4. RoverScout ×4
    5. Mex
    6. RoverScout
    7. SentrySentry
    8. ShellshockerArty
    9. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    10. Mex ×2
    11. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    12. SentrySentry
    13. JanusJanus ×2
    14. SentrySentry
    15. JanusJanus
    16. SentrySentry
    17. RoverScout
    18. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    19. SentrySentry
    20. JanusJanus ×2
    21. SentrySentry
    22. JanusJanus
    23. BlitzBlitz ×2
    24. RoverScout
    25. BlitzBlitz
    26. SentrySentry
    27. 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 (45%) · 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 · 151 steps
    1. BlitzBlitz ×2
    2. SentrySentry
    3. RoverScout
    4. BlitzBlitz ×6
    5. RoverScout
    6. BlitzBlitz ×4
    7. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 7:33 · typical 9:00
    8. BlitzBlitz ×2
    9. RoverScout
    10. BlitzBlitz ×4
    11. RoverScout
    12. BlitzBlitz ×4
    13. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    14. BlitzBlitz
    15. Construction VehicleCon vehiclefor Geo
    16. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    17. Wind ×3for Geo
    18. Solar
    19. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    20. Windfor Geo
    21. Solar
    22. Wind ×2for Geo
    23. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    24. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    25. Wind ×2for Geo
    26. Solar
    27. RoverScout
    28. Windfor Geo
    29. BlitzBlitz
    30. Windfor Geo
    31. BlitzBlitz
    32. Windfor Geo
    33. BlitzBlitz
    34. Windfor Geo
    35. BlitzBlitz
    36. Solar
    37. Windfor Geo
    38. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    39. Windfor Geo
    40. SentrySentry
    41. Windfor Geo
    42. Wind
    43. SentrySentry
    44. Windfor Geo
    45. Wind ×3
    46. Mex
    47. Solar
    48. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    49. Wind ×2
    50. SentrySentry
    51. Wind ×4
    52. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    53. SentrySentry
    54. Construction VehicleCon vehiclefor Geo
    55. Wind ×3
    56. SentrySentry
    57. Wind
    58. Con turret
    59. Wind ×2
    60. BlitzBlitz
    61. Wind ×2
    62. SentrySentry
    63. Wind
    64. BlitzBlitz
    65. Wind ×3
    66. BlitzBlitz
    67. Wind
    68. Con turret
    69. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    70. Wind ×2
    71. BlitzBlitz
    72. Wind
    73. SentrySentry
    74. Wind
    75. BlitzBlitz
    76. Construction VehicleCon vehiclefor Geo
    77. Wind
    78. SentrySentry
    79. Wind ×4
    80. Con turret
    81. Wind
    82. SentrySentry
    83. Wind
    84. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    85. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    86. Wind ×3
    87. SentrySentry
    88. Wind ×4
    89. Con turret
    90. Wind ×3
    91. BlitzBlitz
    92. Wind
    93. SentrySentry
    94. Wind ×2
    95. Converter
    96. BlitzBlitz
    97. Wind ×2
    98. SentrySentry
    99. Wind ×3
    100. BlitzBlitz
    101. Wind ×5
    102. SentrySentry
    103. Wind
    104. BlitzBlitz
    105. Wind ×4
    106. SentrySentry
    107. Wind
    108. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    109. Wind
    110. Converter ×2
    111. Wind
    112. SentrySentry
    113. Wind ×5
    114. SentrySentry
    115. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    116. Wind ×8
    117. SentrySentry
    118. Converter
    119. Wind ×2
    120. BlitzBlitz
    121. Wind ×2
    122. Converter
    123. SentrySentry
    124. Wind ×3
    125. BlitzBlitz
    126. Wind ×3
    127. BlitzBlitz
    128. Con turret
    129. Wind
    130. SentrySentry
    131. Wind ×3
    132. BlitzBlitz
    133. Wind ×3
    134. Energy storage
    135. Converter
    136. Energy storage
    137. Wind ×3
    138. Converter
    139. Wind
    140. BlitzBlitz
    141. Wind
    142. Con turret
    143. Wind ×2
    144. Energy storage
    145. Wind ×4
    146. Con turret
    147. BlitzBlitz
    148. Converter
    149. Wind ×6
    150. BlitzBlitz
    151. Wind ×3

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is [Crd]HahnII's (32 OS, 10/10/2026); 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 7:24 · 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

1994 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0033300
2:008402131
3:001618135108
4:002700522333
5:0038471128787
6:00503519281428
7:00625027202303
8:00753535463173
9:00897343304071
10:001054250114810
11:001237555405548
12:001452859986409
13:001685964707001
14:001921771867827
15:002184978708694
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

[Crd]HahnII

32.4 OS · 10/10/2026

Open source match ↗

19 received units · includes a constructor
233 metal received · 5182 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=1332
Vehicle Plant0:47Middle 50%: 0:41–1:13 · n=1286
Advanced Metal Extractor9:00Middle 50%: 8:09–10:15 · n=1564

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