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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 · 1 step
    1. Bot LabBot Labdone 0:20 · 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 · 31 steps
    1. TickTick
    2. Mex
    3. TickTickfor Pond
    4. Wind
    5. TickTick
    6. Mex
    7. TickTick
    8. Wind
    9. LazarusLazarus
    10. Construction BotCon bot
    11. CenturionCenturion
    12. Construction BotCon bot
    13. CenturionCenturion
    14. LazarusLazarus
    15. Mex
    16. Construction BotCon bot
    17. RocketeerRocketeer
    18. Mex
    19. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    20. SentrySentry
    21. RocketeerRocketeer
    22. Mex
    23. RocketeerRocketeer ×7
    24. CenturionCenturion
    25. Mex
    26. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    27. Con turret
    28. RocketeerRocketeer
    29. PawnPawn
    30. RocketeerRocketeer
    31. LazarusLazarus
  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 · 162 steps
    1. RocketeerRocketeer ×7
    2. BeamerBeamer
    3. RocketeerRocketeer
    4. Construction BotCon bot
    5. PawnPawn
    6. TickTick ×5for Pond
    7. GauntletGauntletnot finished by 15:00
    8. TickTick ×3
    9. TickTickfor Pond
    10. TickTick
    11. PawnPawn ×5
    12. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    13. PawnPawn
    14. BeamerBeamer
    15. PawnPawn
    16. Energy storage
    17. Wind ×2
    18. PawnPawn
    19. TickTick ×2
    20. BeamerBeamer
    21. Wind
    22. TickTick ×2
    23. Wind
    24. Construction BotCon bot
    25. Converter
    26. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    27. Wind
    28. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    29. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:54 · typical 8:52
    30. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    31. Wind
    32. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    33. LazarusLazarus
    34. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    35. Wind
    36. Converter
    37. PawnPawn
    38. BeamerBeamer
    39. Wind
    40. PawnPawn ×2
    41. Wind
    42. BeamerBeamer
    43. PawnPawn
    44. Wind
    45. PawnPawn
    46. Con turret
    47. PawnPawn
    48. BeamerBeamer
    49. Wind
    50. PawnPawn
    51. BeamerBeamer ×2
    52. Wind
    53. PawnPawn
    54. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    55. Wind
    56. PawnPawn ×2
    57. Wind
    58. Construction BotCon bot
    59. Wind
    60. LazarusLazarus
    61. Wind
    62. PawnPawn ×3
    63. Wind
    64. PawnPawn ×2
    65. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    66. PawnPawn
    67. Wind
    68. Con turret
    69. PawnPawn
    70. Wind
    71. TickTick
    72. GauntletGauntlet
    73. TickTick
    74. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    75. Con turret
    76. Wind
    77. Con turret
    78. TickTick ×3
    79. Con turret
    80. Wind
    81. TickTick ×2
    82. Con turret
    83. TickTick
    84. GauntletGauntlet
    85. Wind
    86. PawnPawn ×2
    87. Con turret
    88. Wind
    89. Bot LabBot Labdone 12:44
    90. PawnPawn
    91. Wind
    92. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    93. TickTick
    94. Wind
    95. TickTick
    96. Wind
    97. TickTick ×2
    98. LazarusLazarus
    99. TickTick
    100. PawnPawn
    101. Construction BotCon bot
    102. Wind
    103. PawnPawn
    104. LazarusLazarus
    105. PawnPawn
    106. Wind
    107. Fortification WallFortification Wall
    108. Wind
    109. Fortification WallFortification Wall
    110. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    111. Fortification WallFortification Wall ×2
    112. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    113. Fortification WallFortification Wall
    114. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    115. Wind
    116. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    117. PawnPawn ×2
    118. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    119. PawnPawn ×2
    120. Wind
    121. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    122. PawnPawn ×2
    123. Energy storage
    124. PawnPawn
    125. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    126. PawnPawn ×2
    127. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    128. PawnPawn
    129. Converter
    130. Wind
    131. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    132. PawnPawn ×3
    133. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    134. PawnPawn
    135. TickTick
    136. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    137. TickTick ×3
    138. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    139. TickTick ×3
    140. Wind
    141. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    142. PawnPawn
    143. Converter
    144. TickTick
    145. PawnPawn
    146. LazarusLazarus
    147. PawnPawn
    148. Converter
    149. PawnPawn
    150. Construction BotCon bot
    151. Converter
    152. Wind
    153. PawnPawn
    154. BeamerBeamer
    155. LazarusLazarus
    156. PawnPawn ×4
    157. Wind
    158. PawnPawn ×9
    159. Wind
    160. PawnPawn ×2
    161. TickTick ×5
    162. Wind

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Goldenlion's (46 OS, 24/09/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

Nothing regular.

You get

  • Tidal Generator4 Tidal from Pondfirst at 0:18 · 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

Goldenlion

46.1 OS · 24/09/2026

Open source match ↗

32 received units · includes a constructor
87 metal received · 39099 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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