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Standard front

Armada Front build order · Supreme Isthmus

Standard economy-first Front play: Bot Lab and Vehicle Plant up almost immediately, Advanced Metal Extractor around 9 minutes, with Blitz, Rocketeer, Pawn and Janus trickling out to hold and push the middle over the full 15 minutes.

#eco · 1186 distinct matches · 145 players · 75% of Armada Front games · team won 62% of 1353 · 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 1186 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 0:35–8:13

    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 0:39 · 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 (42%) · centurion (37%)

    By 5:00 in all: 6 mex · 7 wind

    The example game in this phase · 23 steps
    1. TickTick
    2. PawnPawn
    3. LazarusLazarus
    4. PawnPawn ×3
    5. Construction BotCon bot
    6. PawnPawn ×4
    7. Mex
    8. PawnPawn ×9
    9. Mex
    10. PawnPawn ×8
    11. Mex
    12. PawnPawn ×3
    13. Construction BotCon bot
    14. PawnPawn
    15. Con turret
    16. PawnPawn ×3
    17. Mex
    18. PawnPawn ×6
    19. Mex
    20. Con turret
    21. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    22. Construction BotCon bot
    23. Wind
  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 (40%) · blitz (38%) · 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 · 86 steps
    1. Wind ×3
    2. Converter
    3. Wind
    4. CenturionCenturion
    5. Converter
    6. CenturionCenturion
    7. Converter
    8. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    9. Wind
    10. CenturionCenturion
    11. Converter
    12. Wind
    13. CenturionCenturion
    14. Wind
    15. SentrySentry
    16. Converter
    17. CenturionCenturion
    18. Wind
    19. Converter
    20. Wind
    21. RocketeerRocketeer
    22. Converter
    23. RocketeerRocketeer
    24. Sneaky PeteSneaky Pete
    25. Wind
    26. Converter
    27. RocketeerRocketeer
    28. Wind
    29. Converter
    30. RocketeerRocketeer
    31. Converter ×2
    32. Wind
    33. Converter
    34. Wind
    35. PawnPawn ×2
    36. Wind
    37. PawnPawn ×2
    38. Wind
    39. PawnPawn
    40. Wind
    41. PawnPawn
    42. Wind
    43. PawnPawn
    44. Sneaky PeteSneaky Pete
    45. Wind
    46. PawnPawn
    47. Wind
    48. Con turret
    49. PawnPawn
    50. Sneaky PeteSneaky Pete
    51. PawnPawn
    52. Wind
    53. PawnPawn
    54. Wind
    55. PawnPawn
    56. Wind
    57. PawnPawn
    58. Wind
    59. PawnPawn ×2
    60. Wind
    61. PawnPawn ×5
    62. Construction BotCon bot
    63. PawnPawn ×8
    64. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 13:29 · typical 8:53
    65. PawnPawn
    66. Sneaky PeteSneaky Pete
    67. PawnPawn ×3
    68. Mex
    69. Con turret ×2
    70. LazarusLazarus
    71. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 13:55
    72. Mex
    73. LazarusLazarus
    74. Mex
    75. LazarusLazarus
    76. Mex
    77. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    78. LazarusLazarus
    79. Con turret
    80. Mex
    81. LazarusLazarus
    82. Con turret ×2
    83. Construction BotCon bot
    84. Con turret
    85. Mex
    86. Con turret

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is El_Turco's (38 OS, 11/10/2026); 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

1353 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0033300
2:008442131
3:001621143105
4:002709545333
5:0038551200813
6:00506020801512
7:00629929412450
8:00762437803332
9:00906046094251
10:001066152434952
11:001259157465677
12:001477463056491
13:001737669067192
14:002008975638079
15:002265682958940
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

El_Turco

38.0 OS · 11/10/2026

Open source match ↗

23 received units · includes a constructor
718 metal received · 22974 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Bot Lab0:45Middle 50%: 0:35–8:13 · n=857
Vehicle Plant0:47Middle 50%: 0:40–0:58 · n=946
Advanced Metal Extractor8:53Middle 50%: 8:02–10:00 · n=1079

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