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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 · 3 steps
    1. Mex ×2
    2. Wind
    3. Bot LabBot Labdone 0:39 · typical 0:44
  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 · 35 steps
    1. TickTick ×5
    2. LazarusLazarus
    3. Wind
    4. PawnPawn
    5. Wind
    6. PawnPawn ×2
    7. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    8. Mex
    9. Construction BotCon bot
    10. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    11. Mex ×2
    12. LazarusLazarus
    13. RocketeerRocketeer
    14. Mex
    15. SentrySentry
    16. RocketeerRocketeer
    17. SentrySentry
    18. RocketeerRocketeer
    19. LazarusLazarus
    20. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×4
    21. RocketeerRocketeer
    22. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    23. BeamerBeamer
    24. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    25. RocketeerRocketeer
    26. SentrySentry
    27. RocketeerRocketeer
    28. LazarusLazarus
    29. BeamerBeamer
    30. Construction BotCon bot
    31. BeamerBeamer
    32. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    33. LazarusLazarus
    34. Dragon's ClawDragon's Claw
    35. RocketeerRocketeer
  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 · 96 steps
    1. RocketeerRocketeer
    2. Mex
    3. RocketeerRocketeer
    4. SentrySentry
    5. LazarusLazarus
    6. Wind
    7. Mex
    8. RocketeerRocketeer
    9. SentrySentry
    10. RocketeerRocketeer
    11. OverwatchOverwatch
    12. RocketeerRocketeer
    13. LazarusLazarus
    14. Wind
    15. RocketeerRocketeer
    16. Wind
    17. PawnPawn ×3
    18. SentrySentry
    19. PawnPawn
    20. SentrySentry
    21. BeamerBeamer
    22. PawnPawn
    23. SentrySentry
    24. PawnPawn
    25. SentrySentry ×3
    26. PawnPawn
    27. SentrySentry
    28. Con turret
    29. PawnPawn ×2
    30. Mex
    31. Metal storage
    32. PawnPawn
    33. Con turret
    34. PawnPawn
    35. Wind ×2
    36. PawnPawn ×2
    37. Wind
    38. PawnPawn
    39. Wind
    40. PawnPawn
    41. Wind
    42. PawnPawn
    43. Wind ×2
    44. PawnPawn
    45. Wind
    46. PawnPawn
    47. Wind
    48. PawnPawn
    49. Wind ×2
    50. PawnPawn
    51. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:44 · typical 9:00
    52. Wind
    53. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    54. PawnPawn
    55. Wind ×2
    56. PawnPawn
    57. Wind
    58. PawnPawn
    59. Wind ×2
    60. PawnPawn
    61. Wind
    62. PawnPawn
    63. SentrySentry
    64. Wind
    65. RocketeerRocketeer
    66. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    67. Wind
    68. SentrySentry
    69. RocketeerRocketeer
    70. Wind ×2
    71. RocketeerRocketeer
    72. Wind
    73. LazarusLazarus
    74. Wind ×2
    75. PawnPawn ×2
    76. Wind ×2
    77. PawnPawn
    78. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 11:05 · typical 0:47
    79. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    80. Wind ×2
    81. PawnPawn ×2
    82. Mex
    83. Wind ×2
    84. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    85. PawnPawn ×2
    86. Advanced solar
    87. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    88. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    89. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    90. Advanced solar ×2
    91. Con turret
    92. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    93. Advanced solar
    94. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    95. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    96. Advanced solar ×2

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is TrevGod's (31 OS, 06/08/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

Nothing regular.

You get

  • Tidal Generator4 Tidal from Pondfirst at 0:17 · 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

TrevGod

30.7 OS · 06/08/2026

Open source match ↗

5 received units · includes a constructor
128 metal received · 4331 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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