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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. Bot LabBot Labdone 0:41 · 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 · 30 steps
    1. TickTick
    2. Construction BotCon bot
    3. Mex
    4. Wind ×2
    5. TickTick ×2
    6. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    7. TickTick
    8. Construction BotCon bot
    9. TickTick ×2
    10. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    11. Mex
    12. RocketeerRocketeer
    13. Mex
    14. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    15. LazarusLazarus
    16. Mex
    17. RocketeerRocketeer ×5
    18. SentrySentry
    19. LazarusLazarus
    20. RocketeerRocketeer
    21. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    22. RocketeerRocketeer
    23. PawnPawn ×3
    24. SentrySentry
    25. PawnPawn
    26. LazarusLazarus
    27. TickTick
    28. RocketeerRocketeer ×5
    29. LazarusLazarus
    30. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
  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 · 115 steps
    1. RocketeerRocketeer
    2. TickTick
    3. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    4. LazarusLazarus
    5. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    6. TickTick
    7. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    8. TickTick
    9. LazarusLazarus
    10. RocketeerRocketeer ×4
    11. TickTick
    12. RocketeerRocketeer
    13. LazarusLazarus
    14. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    15. PawnPawn ×3
    16. SentrySentry
    17. PawnPawn ×2
    18. Mex
    19. Construction BotCon bot
    20. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:04 · typical 8:52
    21. Construction BotCon bot
    22. Wind
    23. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    24. Wind
    25. PawnPawn ×4
    26. Wind
    27. PawnPawn
    28. LazarusLazarus
    29. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    30. TickTick
    31. LazarusLazarus
    32. Wind
    33. LazarusLazarus ×2
    34. Wind
    35. SentrySentry
    36. LazarusLazarus
    37. Wind
    38. LazarusLazarus
    39. Wind
    40. LazarusLazarus
    41. Wind
    42. LazarusLazarus
    43. Wind
    44. LazarusLazarus
    45. CenturionCenturion
    46. Wind
    47. SentrySentry
    48. Wind
    49. SentrySentry
    50. CenturionCenturion
    51. Wind ×2
    52. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    53. CenturionCenturion
    54. Wind ×3
    55. CenturionCenturion
    56. Wind ×3
    57. Energy storage
    58. CenturionCenturion
    59. Wind
    60. Con turret
    61. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    62. Construction BotCon bot
    63. Wind ×2
    64. Construction BotCon bot
    65. Wind
    66. Construction BotCon bot
    67. Con turret
    68. Wind
    69. CenturionCenturion
    70. Wind
    71. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    72. Wind
    73. CenturionCenturion
    74. Wind
    75. Con turret ×2
    76. Wind
    77. Con turret
    78. Wind ×2
    79. CenturionCenturion
    80. Wind
    81. Solar
    82. CenturionCenturion
    83. Solar
    84. Wind
    85. TickTick
    86. Wind
    87. Solar
    88. TickTick
    89. Wind
    90. Solar
    91. TickTick
    92. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    93. TickTick ×2
    94. Wind
    95. Solar
    96. TickTick ×2
    97. Con turret
    98. TickTick
    99. Converter
    100. Wind
    101. SentrySentry
    102. TickTick
    103. Con turret
    104. TickTick
    105. Wind
    106. TickTick
    107. Con turret
    108. TickTick ×2
    109. Wind
    110. Con turret
    111. TickTick
    112. Wind
    113. TickTick ×2
    114. Wind
    115. TickTick ×3

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Xad's (46 OS, 23/09/2026); 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

Xad

45.7 OS · 23/09/2026

Open source match ↗

5 received units · includes a constructor
163 metal received · 37474 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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