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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 · 956 distinct matches · 128 players · 75% of Armada Front games · team won 63% of 1089 · 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 956 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 0:35–8:32

    Some games also: Vehicle Plant (42%)

    By 0:28 in all: 2 mex · 1 wind

    The example game in this phase · 3 steps
    1. Mex
    2. Wind
    3. 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 (45%) · con bot (44%) · Lazarus (44%) · tick (40%) · centurion (36%)

    By 5:00 in all: 6 mex · 7 wind

    The example game in this phase · 28 steps
    1. Wind
    2. TickTick ×2
    3. Mex
    4. TickTick
    5. Wind
    6. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    7. Mex
    8. CenturionCenturion
    9. RocketeerRocketeer
    10. Mex
    11. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    12. Mex
    13. RocketeerRocketeer
    14. Construction BotCon bot
    15. RocketeerRocketeerfor Suicide front
    16. Mex
    17. RocketeerRocketeerfor Suicide front
    18. SentrySentry
    19. RocketeerRocketeer ×4for Suicide front
    20. RocketeerRocketeer
    21. RocketeerRocketeerfor Suicide front
    22. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    23. TickTick
    24. LazarusLazarus
    25. Construction BotCon bot
    26. RocketeerRocketeer
    27. CenturionCenturion
    28. RocketeerRocketeer ×6
  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 (47%) · blitz (38%) · rocketeer (38%) · 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 · 167 steps
    1. RocketeerRocketeer ×4
    2. TickTick
    3. LazarusLazarus
    4. Construction BotCon bot
    5. Mex
    6. CenturionCenturion ×2
    7. LazarusLazarus
    8. SentrySentry
    9. RocketeerRocketeer
    10. SentrySentry
    11. Wind
    12. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    13. Wind
    14. RocketeerRocketeer
    15. Wind
    16. SentrySentry
    17. Con turret
    18. RocketeerRocketeer
    19. Wind
    20. SentrySentry
    21. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    22. Wind
    23. RocketeerRocketeer
    24. Wind
    25. Mex
    26. RocketeerRocketeer
    27. Wind
    28. RocketeerRocketeer
    29. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    30. Wind
    31. CenturionCenturion
    32. Wind
    33. SentrySentry
    34. RocketeerRocketeer
    35. Construction BotCon bot
    36. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 10:06 · typical 8:53
    37. Wind
    38. RocketeerRocketeer
    39. Construction BotCon bot
    40. SentrySentry
    41. Wind
    42. RocketeerRocketeer
    43. CenturionCenturion
    44. Mex
    45. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    46. Wind
    47. SentrySentry ×2
    48. TickTick
    49. CenturionCenturion
    50. Wind
    51. CenturionCenturion
    52. LazarusLazarus
    53. Con turret
    54. Construction BotCon bot
    55. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    56. Wind
    57. Mex
    58. Wind ×2
    59. RocketeerRocketeer
    60. Wind
    61. PawnPawn
    62. Wind
    63. Energy storage
    64. PawnPawn ×2
    65. Mex
    66. Wind
    67. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    68. Wind
    69. Con turret
    70. RocketeerRocketeer
    71. PawnPawn
    72. RocketeerRocketeer
    73. PawnPawn
    74. BlitzBlitz
    75. Wind ×2
    76. PawnPawn
    77. Wind ×3
    78. PawnPawn
    79. Con turret
    80. RocketeerRocketeer
    81. Wind ×3
    82. PawnPawn
    83. Wind
    84. BlitzBlitz
    85. Wind ×2
    86. PawnPawn
    87. Wind ×2
    88. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    89. PawnPawn ×2
    90. Wind
    91. RocketeerRocketeer
    92. CenturionCenturion
    93. Con turret
    94. CenturionCenturion
    95. Wind ×3
    96. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantnot finished by 15:00 · typical 0:47
    97. PawnPawn
    98. Wind ×2
    99. PawnPawn
    100. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 12:37
    101. Wind ×2
    102. PawnPawn
    103. Wind
    104. BlitzBlitz
    105. Wind
    106. Con turret
    107. Wind ×2
    108. CenturionCenturion
    109. Wind ×2
    110. BlitzBlitz
    111. Wind
    112. PawnPawn
    113. BlitzBlitz
    114. Wind ×3
    115. PawnPawn
    116. Wind
    117. BeamerBeamer
    118. BlitzBlitz
    119. Wind ×2
    120. PawnPawn
    121. Wind
    122. BlitzBlitz
    123. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    124. Wind
    125. Energy storage
    126. CenturionCenturion
    127. BlitzBlitz
    128. Wind ×3
    129. BeamerBeamer
    130. Wind
    131. BlitzBlitz
    132. Wind
    133. PawnPawn
    134. Bot LabBot Labdone 13:45
    135. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    136. BlitzBlitz
    137. PawnPawn
    138. Wind
    139. BlitzBlitz
    140. Wind ×2
    141. BlitzBlitz
    142. Wind ×4
    143. BlitzBlitz
    144. Wind ×3
    145. BlitzBlitz
    146. Wind ×2
    147. BlitzBlitz
    148. Wind
    149. StoutStout
    150. Wind
    151. Mex
    152. Wind
    153. LazarusLazarus
    154. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 14:28
    155. Energy storage
    156. StoutStout
    157. Energy storage
    158. StoutStout
    159. Wind
    160. LazarusLazarus
    161. StoutStout
    162. Con turret
    163. StoutStout
    164. Con turret
    165. StoutStout
    166. LazarusLazarus
    167. StoutStout ×2

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is watermeloans's (60 OS, 03/09/2026); 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

1089 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0033300
2:008452131
3:001623141105
4:002712543333
5:0038681199818
6:00507821201534
7:00632830062457
8:00766238713361
9:00908746384329
10:001066653235062
11:001262258385711
12:001483463856544
13:001745070287287
14:002018376558104
15:002266984148946
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

watermeloans

59.6 OS · 03/09/2026

Open source match ↗

6 received units · includes a constructor
1006 metal received · 13398 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Bot Lab0:45Middle 50%: 0:35–8:32 · n=686
Vehicle Plant0:47Middle 50%: 0:37–0:57 · n=774
Advanced Metal Extractor8:53Middle 50%: 8:01–10:03 · n=869

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