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

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is confirm_'s (61 OS, 29/08/2026); 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

confirm_

61.4 OS · 29/08/2026

Open source match ↗

8 received units · includes a constructor
760 metal received · 10080 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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