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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. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 0:42 · typical 0:47
  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 · 31 steps
    1. RoverScout
    2. Wind
    3. RoverScout
    4. BlitzBlitz ×2
    5. Wind
    6. Construction VehicleCon vehicle ×2
    7. JanusJanus
    8. Mex
    9. JanusJanus ×2
    10. Mex ×2
    11. SentrySentry ×2
    12. Mex
    13. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    14. JanusJanus
    15. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×7
    16. StoutStout
    17. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    18. SentrySentry
    19. BeamerBeamer
    20. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    21. BeamerBeamer
    22. BlitzBlitz
    23. Wind
    24. BlitzBlitz
    25. Con turret
    26. Wind ×2
    27. BlitzBlitz
    28. Wind
    29. BlitzBlitz
    30. Con turret
    31. BlitzBlitz
  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 · 86 steps
    1. JanusJanus
    2. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×3
    3. JanusJanus
    4. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×3
    5. JanusJanus
    6. OverwatchOverwatch
    7. JanusJanus
    8. Wind ×2
    9. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    10. StoutStout
    11. Wind
    12. Mex
    13. Wind
    14. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 8:11 · typical 8:52
    15. Wind
    16. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    17. SentrySentry
    18. Wind
    19. BlitzBlitz ×3
    20. Mex
    21. SentrySentry
    22. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    23. BlitzBlitz ×2
    24. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    25. Wind ×2
    26. BlitzBlitz
    27. Wind
    28. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    29. BlitzBlitz
    30. Wind
    31. BlitzBlitz
    32. Con turret
    33. Wind
    34. BlitzBlitz
    35. Wind
    36. BlitzBlitz
    37. Wind ×2
    38. BlitzBlitz ×2
    39. Wind
    40. BlitzBlitz
    41. Energy storage
    42. Wind
    43. BlitzBlitz ×2
    44. Wind
    45. BlitzBlitzfor Suicide front
    46. Wind
    47. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    48. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    49. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    50. BlitzBlitz ×4
    51. Con turret
    52. BlitzBlitz ×6
    53. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    54. BlitzBlitz
    55. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    56. BlitzBlitz ×3
    57. Con turret ×3
    58. BlitzBlitz ×2
    59. Wind
    60. Advanced solar
    61. BlitzBlitz
    62. Pit BullPit Bull
    63. BlitzBlitz
    64. Con turret
    65. Solar
    66. BlitzBlitz
    67. Wind ×3
    68. BlitzBlitz
    69. Wind ×4
    70. BlitzBlitz
    71. Wind ×3
    72. BlitzBlitz
    73. Wind ×3
    74. BlitzBlitz
    75. Wind
    76. Con turret
    77. Wind ×4
    78. BlitzBlitz
    79. Wind ×4
    80. Con turret
    81. BlitzBlitz
    82. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    83. Wind ×4
    84. JunoJuno
    85. BlitzBlitz
    86. Wind ×6

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is armjanus's (41 OS, 19/09/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

Nothing regular.

You get

  • Tidal Generator4 Tidal from Pondfirst at 0:18 · 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

armjanus

40.5 OS · 19/09/2026

Open source match ↗

64 received units · includes a constructor
170 metal received · 6870 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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