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Standard front

Armada Front build order · Supreme Isthmus

Standard economy-first opening with Bot Lab and Vehicle Plant up almost immediately, transitioning into the usual Blitz/Rocketeer/Pawn/Janus mix to contest middle and hold the wider gap.

#eco · 1060 distinct matches · 140 players · 75% of Armada Front games · team won 63% of 1210 · 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 1060 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 0:35–8:31

    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 0:40 · 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 (41%) · centurion (37%)

    By 5:00 in all: 6 mex · 7 wind

    The example game in this phase · 23 steps
    1. TickTick ×3
    2. PawnPawn ×2
    3. Construction BotCon bot
    4. Wind
    5. PawnPawn
    6. Mex
    7. PawnPawn ×3
    8. RocketeerRocketeer ×4
    9. LazarusLazarus
    10. RocketeerRocketeer ×4
    11. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    12. Mex
    13. LazarusLazarus
    14. Mex
    15. RocketeerRocketeer
    16. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    17. RocketeerRocketeer ×4
    18. Mex
    19. LazarusLazarus
    20. Construction BotCon bot
    21. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    22. SentrySentry
    23. RocketeerRocketeer ×8
  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%) · rocketeer (39%) · blitz (38%) · pawn (36%) · Lazarus (36%)

    By 10:00 in all: 7 mex · 25 wind · 1 energy storage · 3 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 169 steps
    1. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    2. Mex
    3. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    4. PawnPawn ×3
    5. Con turret
    6. PawnPawn ×5
    7. Construction BotCon bot
    8. Wind
    9. BeamerBeamer
    10. PawnPawn
    11. Wind
    12. PawnPawn ×2
    13. Wind
    14. Con turret
    15. PawnPawn
    16. Wind
    17. PawnPawn
    18. Wind
    19. PawnPawn
    20. Wind
    21. Energy storage
    22. Wind
    23. PawnPawn
    24. Con turret
    25. Wind
    26. PawnPawn
    27. Wind
    28. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexnot finished by 15:00 · typical 8:53
    29. Advanced solar
    30. Con turret
    31. Wind
    32. PawnPawn
    33. Wind
    34. PawnPawn
    35. Con turret
    36. Wind
    37. PawnPawn
    38. Wind
    39. PawnPawn
    40. Wind
    41. Advanced solar
    42. PawnPawn
    43. Wind
    44. PawnPawn
    45. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    46. Wind ×4
    47. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    48. Wind ×4
    49. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    50. Wind
    51. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantnot finished by 15:00 · typical 0:48
    52. Wind
    53. Bot LabBot Labdone 10:20
    54. CenturionCenturion
    55. Wind
    56. CenturionCenturion ×2
    57. Wind
    58. CenturionCenturion ×2
    59. Wind
    60. CenturionCenturion
    61. Wind
    62. PawnPawn ×2
    63. Wind
    64. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    65. Wind
    66. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    67. PawnPawn
    68. Wind
    69. PawnPawn ×2
    70. Wind
    71. PawnPawn ×3
    72. Wind ×2
    73. PawnPawn
    74. Wind ×2
    75. PawnPawn ×2
    76. Wind
    77. Converter
    78. PawnPawn ×2
    79. Wind
    80. PawnPawn
    81. Bot LabBot Labdone 12:10
    82. Wind
    83. PawnPawn ×2
    84. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    85. PawnPawn
    86. Wind
    87. Converter
    88. Wind
    89. PawnPawn
    90. Wind
    91. PawnPawn
    92. CenturionCenturion
    93. Wind
    94. PawnPawn
    95. Converter
    96. Wind ×2
    97. PawnPawn
    98. Wind
    99. PawnPawn
    100. CenturionCenturion
    101. PawnPawn
    102. Wind
    103. PawnPawn
    104. Converter
    105. PawnPawn ×3
    106. Wind
    107. PawnPawn ×2
    108. CenturionCenturion
    109. Wind
    110. PawnPawn
    111. Converter ×2
    112. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    113. PawnPawn
    114. Wind
    115. PawnPawn
    116. Converter
    117. PawnPawn ×2
    118. Wind
    119. Converter
    120. Wind
    121. PawnPawn
    122. Converter
    123. CenturionCenturion
    124. PawnPawn
    125. Converter
    126. PawnPawn
    127. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    128. Wind ×2
    129. PawnPawn
    130. Converter
    131. PawnPawn
    132. Wind
    133. Converter
    134. PawnPawn
    135. Wind
    136. CenturionCenturion
    137. Converter
    138. PawnPawn ×2
    139. Wind
    140. PawnPawn
    141. Converter
    142. Wind
    143. PawnPawn
    144. Wind
    145. PawnPawn
    146. CenturionCenturion
    147. PawnPawn ×2
    148. Advanced solar
    149. PawnPawn
    150. Wind
    151. Converter
    152. Wind
    153. PawnPawn
    154. Wind
    155. CenturionCenturion
    156. Advanced solar
    157. PawnPawn ×2
    158. Wind ×2
    159. PawnPawn ×2
    160. Wind
    161. CenturionCenturion
    162. PawnPawn
    163. Wind
    164. PawnPawn ×3
    165. Wind
    166. PawnPawn ×4
    167. CenturionCenturion
    168. PawnPawn
    169. Wind ×2

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is EpicTyrannus's (43 OS, 03/10/2026); 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

1210 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0033300
2:008492131
3:001625141105
4:002712541333
5:0038591200817
6:00506521051522
7:00631329672419
8:00763738143332
9:00908346244274
10:001069652935006
11:001262557855683
12:001484563526488
13:001744469777174
14:002017276238083
15:002273283908949
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

EpicTyrannus

42.5 OS · 03/10/2026

Open source match ↗

8 received units · includes a constructor
39 metal received · 14274 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Bot Lab0:45Middle 50%: 0:35–8:31 · n=768
Vehicle Plant0:48Middle 50%: 0:39–0:58 · n=854
Advanced Metal Extractor8:53Middle 50%: 8:02–10:00 · n=970

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