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

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is The_Dwarf's (39 OS, 30/08/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

Nothing regular.

You get

  • Tidal Generator4 Tidal from Pondfirst at 0:18 · 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

The_Dwarf

38.8 OS · 30/08/2026

Open source match ↗

10 received units · includes a constructor
215 metal received · 11347 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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