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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. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 0:42 · typical 0:47
  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 · 26 steps
    1. RoverScout
    2. Wind
    3. RoverScout
    4. Mex
    5. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    6. BlitzBlitz ×2
    7. Mex
    8. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    9. JanusJanus
    10. Mex
    11. JanusJanus
    12. Wind ×2
    13. Mex
    14. Wind
    15. JanusJanus
    16. Wind
    17. SentrySentry
    18. Energy storage
    19. SentrySentry
    20. WhistlerMissile truck
    21. SentrySentry
    22. GroundhogGroundhog
    23. JanusJanus
    24. WhistlerMissile truck ×3
    25. SentrySentry
    26. WhistlerMissile truck ×5
  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 · 63 steps
    1. WhistlerMissile truck ×2
    2. Heavy MineHeavy Mine
    3. WhistlerMissile truck ×3
    4. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    5. WhistlerMissile truck
    6. BeamerBeamer
    7. BlitzBlitz
    8. Mex
    9. Con turret
    10. BlitzBlitz
    11. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    12. Wind
    13. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    14. Wind ×2
    15. BlitzBlitz
    16. Heavy MineHeavy Mine
    17. Wind
    18. BlitzBlitz
    19. Wind
    20. BlitzBlitz
    21. Wind
    22. Mex
    23. Heavy MineHeavy Mine
    24. BlitzBlitz ×8
    25. SentrySentry
    26. BlitzBlitz ×2
    27. SentrySentry
    28. BlitzBlitz ×2
    29. SentrySentry
    30. BlitzBlitz ×9
    31. Twilight
    32. BlitzBlitz ×4
    33. SentrySentry
    34. BlitzBlitz
    35. BeamerBeamer
    36. BlitzBlitz ×2
    37. SentrySentry
    38. BlitzBlitz ×2
    39. SentrySentry
    40. BlitzBlitz ×4
    41. Aircraft PlantAircraft Plantdone 10:59
    42. BlitzBlitz ×4
    43. OspreyHeavy transport
    44. BlitzBlitz ×19
    45. Twilight
    46. BlitzBlitz ×9
    47. Wind
    48. BlitzBlitz
    49. Wind
    50. BlitzBlitz ×2
    51. Wind
    52. BlitzBlitz
    53. Wind
    54. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 14:18 · typical 9:00
    55. BlitzBlitz
    56. Wind ×2
    57. BlitzBlitz
    58. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    59. Wind
    60. BlitzBlitz
    61. Wind
    62. BlitzBlitz
    63. Wind

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Call_Me_Sir's (33 OS, 16/09/2026); 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

Call_Me_Sir

33.5 OS · 16/09/2026

Open source match ↗

5 received units · includes a constructor
245 metal received · 55069 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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