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

  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 · 26 steps
    1. Wind
    2. BlitzBlitz
    3. Wind ×2
    4. Con turret
    5. TickTick
    6. Wind
    7. TickTick
    8. Wind
    9. BlitzBlitz ×2
    10. TickTick
    11. Con turret
    12. Wind ×3
    13. TickTick
    14. Pit BullPit Bull
    15. BlitzBlitz
    16. TickTick
    17. Wind ×2
    18. BlitzBlitz
    19. TickTick
    20. Wind
    21. BlitzBlitz
    22. Con turret
    23. Wind ×3
    24. TickTick
    25. Wind ×2
    26. TickTick

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Reasonable1337's (32 OS, 15/09/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

Nothing regular.

You get

  • Tidal Generator4 Tidal from Pondfirst at 0:17 · 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

Reasonable1337

32.0 OS · 15/09/2026

Open source match ↗

9 received units · includes a constructor
0 metal received · 49663 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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