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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 · 43 steps
    1. LazarusLazarus
    2. TickTick ×2
    3. LazarusLazarus
    4. TickTick
    5. Mex
    6. TickTick
    7. Construction BotCon bot
    8. PawnPawn ×2
    9. Mex
    10. Construction BotCon bot
    11. CenturionCenturion
    12. SentrySentry
    13. CenturionCenturion
    14. Con turret
    15. Mex
    16. Construction BotCon bot
    17. SentrySentry
    18. CenturionCenturion
    19. SentrySentry
    20. Mex
    21. Construction BotCon bot
    22. SentrySentry
    23. Wind
    24. CenturionCenturion
    25. SentrySentry
    26. Wind
    27. BeamerBeamer
    28. Wind ×3
    29. BeamerBeamer
    30. RocketeerRocketeer
    31. Wind
    32. RocketeerRocketeer
    33. Wind
    34. RocketeerRocketeer
    35. Con turret
    36. Wind
    37. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    38. RocketeerRocketeer
    39. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×4
    40. RocketeerRocketeer
    41. Wind
    42. BeamerBeamer
    43. 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 · 143 steps
    1. Wind
    2. RocketeerRocketeer
    3. Wind
    4. RocketeerRocketeer
    5. Wind
    6. RocketeerRocketeer
    7. Wind
    8. RocketeerRocketeer
    9. Wind
    10. RocketeerRocketeer
    11. Wind
    12. RocketeerRocketeer
    13. Wind
    14. RocketeerRocketeer
    15. Con turret
    16. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    17. Wind
    18. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    19. RocketeerRocketeer
    20. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×7
    21. RocketeerRocketeer
    22. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    23. Wind ×4
    24. PawnPawn
    25. Wind
    26. PawnPawn ×2
    27. Wind
    28. PawnPawn ×4
    29. Wind
    30. PawnPawn
    31. Con turret
    32. PawnPawn ×2
    33. Mex
    34. PawnPawn
    35. Con turret
    36. Wind
    37. PawnPawn ×3
    38. BeamerBeamer
    39. PawnPawn
    40. Wind
    41. PawnPawn
    42. Mex
    43. PawnPawn ×2
    44. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:44 · typical 9:00
    45. SentrySentry
    46. Wind
    47. PawnPawn
    48. Energy storage
    49. SentrySentry
    50. PawnPawn
    51. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    52. Wind
    53. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×7
    54. Wind
    55. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    56. PawnPawn
    57. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    58. Wind
    59. PawnPawn
    60. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    61. Wind
    62. PawnPawn
    63. Wind
    64. PawnPawn
    65. Wind
    66. PawnPawn
    67. Wind
    68. PawnPawn ×3
    69. Wind
    70. Con turret
    71. PawnPawn
    72. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    73. PawnPawn ×2
    74. Wind
    75. PawnPawn ×2
    76. Con turret
    77. PawnPawn
    78. Wind
    79. PawnPawn ×2
    80. Wind
    81. PawnPawn ×2
    82. Wind
    83. PawnPawn ×2
    84. Wind
    85. Mex
    86. PawnPawn ×2
    87. Wind
    88. PawnPawn ×2
    89. Wind
    90. PawnPawn
    91. Wind
    92. PawnPawn ×2
    93. Wind
    94. PawnPawn
    95. Wind
    96. PawnPawn
    97. Wind
    98. PawnPawn
    99. Con turret
    100. PawnPawn
    101. Wind
    102. PawnPawn ×2
    103. Wind
    104. PawnPawn ×3
    105. Wind
    106. LazarusLazarus
    107. SentrySentry
    108. Wind
    109. Con turret
    110. LazarusLazarus
    111. Wind
    112. PawnPawn ×2
    113. SentrySentry
    114. Wind
    115. PawnPawn ×4
    116. Wind
    117. PawnPawn
    118. Wind
    119. PawnPawn
    120. Con turret
    121. PawnPawn ×2
    122. Con turret
    123. PawnPawn
    124. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    125. PawnPawn
    126. Con turret
    127. PawnPawn ×4
    128. Con turret
    129. PawnPawn ×7
    130. Con turret
    131. PawnPawn
    132. RattlesnakeRattlesnakedone 14:47
    133. Con turret
    134. PawnPawn ×10
    135. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    136. PawnPawn
    137. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    138. PawnPawn
    139. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    140. PawnPawn
    141. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    142. PawnPawn
    143. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is speddyteddy's (32 OS, 11/09/2026); 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

speddyteddy

31.8 OS · 11/09/2026

Open source match ↗

7 received units · includes a constructor
20 metal received · 13802 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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