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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 · 2 steps
    1. Mex ×2
    2. Bot LabBot Labdone 0:33 · 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 · 41 steps
    1. Wind
    2. TickTick ×2
    3. Wind
    4. TickTick ×3
    5. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    6. Mex
    7. CenturionCenturion
    8. Mex
    9. SentrySentry
    10. Construction BotCon bot
    11. TickTick
    12. Mex
    13. TickTick ×6
    14. Construction BotCon bot
    15. Mex
    16. LazarusLazarus
    17. Wind
    18. RocketeerRocketeer
    19. Mex
    20. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    21. Wind
    22. SentrySentry
    23. RocketeerRocketeer
    24. SentrySentry
    25. RocketeerRocketeer
    26. Wind
    27. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    28. Wind
    29. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    30. Wind
    31. RocketeerRocketeer
    32. Con turret
    33. RocketeerRocketeer
    34. Wind
    35. RocketeerRocketeer
    36. Wind
    37. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    38. Construction BotCon bot
    39. Wind
    40. Con turret
    41. RocketeerRocketeer
  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 · 166 steps
    1. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    2. Energy storage
    3. RocketeerRocketeer
    4. Converter
    5. RocketeerRocketeer
    6. Wind
    7. RocketeerRocketeer
    8. Wind
    9. RocketeerRocketeer
    10. Wind
    11. RocketeerRocketeer
    12. Wind
    13. RocketeerRocketeer
    14. LazarusLazarus
    15. Wind ×2
    16. LazarusLazarus
    17. Wind
    18. RocketeerRocketeer
    19. Mex
    20. RocketeerRocketeer
    21. Wind ×2
    22. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    23. Wind ×2
    24. RocketeerRocketeer
    25. Wind
    26. RocketeerRocketeer
    27. Wind ×2
    28. RocketeerRocketeer
    29. Wind
    30. PawnPawn ×2
    31. Wind ×2
    32. PawnPawn
    33. Wind
    34. PawnPawn
    35. Wind
    36. PawnPawn
    37. Wind
    38. LazarusLazarus
    39. Converter
    40. PawnPawn
    41. Converter ×2
    42. PawnPawn
    43. Converter
    44. PawnPawn
    45. Converter
    46. PawnPawn
    47. Converter
    48. PawnPawn
    49. Converter
    50. PawnPawn
    51. Wind
    52. Mex
    53. PawnPawn ×5
    54. Wind
    55. PawnPawn ×4
    56. Con turret
    57. PawnPawn
    58. Converter
    59. PawnPawn
    60. Mex
    61. PawnPawn
    62. Con turret
    63. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 10:02 · typical 8:52
    64. PawnPawn ×2
    65. Wind ×4
    66. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    67. Wind ×3
    68. TickTick
    69. Wind
    70. TickTick
    71. Con turret
    72. TickTick ×2
    73. Wind
    74. TickTick ×2
    75. Wind
    76. Construction BotCon bot
    77. Wind
    78. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    79. Construction BotCon bot
    80. Wind ×3
    81. TickTick
    82. Wind
    83. TickTick ×2
    84. Wind
    85. TickTick
    86. CrossbowCrossbow
    87. Wind
    88. CrossbowCrossbow
    89. Converter
    90. ChainsawChainsaw
    91. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    92. Wind
    93. CrossbowCrossbow
    94. Wind
    95. CrossbowCrossbow
    96. TickTick ×2
    97. Wind ×2
    98. TickTick ×3
    99. Wind
    100. TickTick ×2
    101. Wind
    102. TickTick ×3
    103. Wind
    104. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    105. TickTick ×2
    106. Construction BotCon bot
    107. Wind
    108. Construction BotCon bot
    109. Wind ×2
    110. TickTick ×2
    111. Wind
    112. TickTick ×2
    113. Wind
    114. TickTick ×3
    115. Wind
    116. TickTick ×2
    117. Wind ×2
    118. TickTick
    119. NettleNettle
    120. Wind
    121. Con turret
    122. Construction BotCon bot
    123. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    124. Wind ×2
    125. Con turret ×2
    126. Wind
    127. Bot LabBot Labdone 13:36
    128. Wind ×3
    129. Con turret
    130. CenturionCenturion ×2
    131. Wind ×3
    132. Converter
    133. Con turret
    134. CenturionCenturion ×2
    135. Converter
    136. CenturionCenturion
    137. Converter
    138. Wind
    139. CenturionCenturion
    140. NettleNettle
    141. Wind
    142. Converter
    143. CenturionCenturion
    144. Converter
    145. CenturionCenturion
    146. Con turret
    147. CenturionCenturion
    148. Converter
    149. CenturionCenturion
    150. Wind ×2
    151. Con turret
    152. CenturionCenturion
    153. Converter
    154. Wind
    155. Con turret
    156. CenturionCenturion
    157. Wind
    158. Converter
    159. CenturionCenturion
    160. Wind ×2
    161. Converter
    162. CenturionCenturion ×2
    163. ParalyzerParalyzernot finished by 15:00
    164. Wind
    165. Converter
    166. Wind

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is AlRelSoulfire's (52 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

AlRelSoulfire

52.3 OS · 14/08/2026

Open source match ↗

24 received units · includes a constructor
696 metal received · 19910 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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