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Standard geo

Eco-first Geo build that rushes geothermal power and T2 constructor before transitioning into Starlight-led T2 units for front, the role's baseline play.

Usually blows up the commander for T2 (67%)

#eco #t2 · 751 distinct matches · 110 players · 59% of Armada Geo games · team won 55% of 845 · Recently observed

HOW TO PLAY IT

Key timing: Geothermal Powerplant by 3:26

  1. Open mex and wind into Bot Lab.
  2. Rush geothermal for the early energy spike.
  3. Add Advanced Metal Extractor, then Advanced Geothermal by 7:07.
  4. Bring up Vehicle Plant alongside T2 con for "Starlight" and vehicles.
  5. Funnel "Starlight" and T1 vehicles to front, pay allies with cons and "Lazarus".

Phase by phase

TYPICAL OF ITS 751 GAMES
  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 4
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 Turbine4Wind
    Order
    1. Bot LabBot Lab after 2 mex, 4 winddone ~1:11, middle half 0:58–1:22

    By 0:55 in all: 2 mex · 4 wind

    The example game in this phase · 3 steps
    1. Mex ×2
    2. Wind ×3
    3. Bot LabBot Labdone 0:52 · typical 1:11
  2. 2

    Bot Lab to 5:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor2Mex
    • Wind Turbine3Wind
    • Energy Converter8Converter
    • Energy Storage1Energy storage
    Order
    1. Geothermal PowerplantGeo after 4 mex, 5 wind, 1 energy storage
    Builders
    • Construction Turret5 Con turret
    • Lazarus4 Lazarus
    • Construction Bot2 Con bot
    • Construction Bot1 Con bot for allies
    • Lazarus1 Lazarus for allies

    By 5:00 in all: 4 mex · 7 wind · 1 geo · 8 converter · 1 energy storage · 5 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 26 steps
    1. TickTick ×3
    2. LazarusLazarus ×2
    3. Wind
    4. Construction BotCon bot
    5. LazarusLazarus
    6. Construction BotCon bot
    7. LazarusLazarus
    8. PawnPawnfor Beach sea
    9. Construction BotCon bot ×2for Beach sea
    10. Mex
    11. Construction BotCon bot
    12. LazarusLazarus
    13. Energy storage
    14. Con turret
    15. Mex
    16. Con turret
    17. Wind ×3
    18. Geothermal PowerplantGeodone 3:51 · typical 3:26
    19. Wind ×2
    20. Con turret
    21. Wind ×3
    22. Con turret
    23. Converter
    24. Con turret
    25. Converter ×3
    26. Con turret
  3. 3

    5:00 to Vehicle Plant

    Order
    1. Advanced Geothermal PowerplantAdvanced Geothermal Powerplant after 8 wind, 10 converter, 6 con turretin 59% of games
    2. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plant after 10 wind, 10 converter, 6 con turretdone ~7:07, middle half 6:41–7:40
    Builders
    • Construction Turret1 Con turret

    Some games also: converter (49%) · wind (47%)

    By 6:59 in all: 4 mex · 10 wind · 1 geo · 1 Advanced Geothermal Powerplant · 10 converter · 1 energy storage

    The example game in this phase · 18 steps
    1. Wind ×3
    2. Converter ×2
    3. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 5:54 · typical 5:33
    4. Converter ×4
    5. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    6. Converter
    7. Wind ×5
    8. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    9. Wind ×2
    10. Con turret
    11. Wind ×5
    12. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    13. Wind ×2
    14. Energy storage
    15. Wind ×3
    16. Advanced Geothermal PowerplantAdvanced Geothermal Powerplantdone 7:57 · typical 7:06
    17. Wind ×2
    18. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 8:01 · typical 7:07
  4. 4

    Vehicle Plant to 10:00

    Economy
    • Wind Turbine5Wind
    • Energy Converter3Converter
    Order
    1. Advanced Vehicle PlantAdvanced Vehicle Plant after 11 wind, 11 converter, 7 con turret
    Builders
    • Construction Vehicle1 Con vehicle
    Army
    • Starlight2 Starlight
    • Umbra1 Jammer
    • Prophet1 Radar vehicle

    Some games also: con turret (50%) · T2 con vehicle for allies (49%) · Jaguar (31%)

    By 10:00 in all: 4 mex · 20 wind · 1 geo · 1 Advanced Geothermal Powerplant · 16 converter · 1 energy storage

    The example game in this phase · 122 steps
    1. Wind
    2. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    3. Wind
    4. Advanced Vehicle PlantAdvanced Vehicle Plantdone 8:39 · typical 8:06
    5. Wind ×3
    6. Converter
    7. ProphetRadar vehicle
    8. Wind
    9. Converter
    10. Wind
    11. UmbraJammer
    12. Wind
    13. Converter
    14. Wind
    15. MauserMauser
    16. Wind
    17. Converter
    18. Wind
    19. MauserMauser
    20. Converter
    21. MauserMauser
    22. Con turret
    23. MauserMauser
    24. JaguarJaguar ×5
    25. Advanced Construction VehicleT2 con vehiclefor Suicide front
    26. StarlightStarlightdone 10:36 · typical 9:02
    27. Wind
    28. TracerTracer
    29. Con turret
    30. StarlightStarlight
    31. Con turret
    32. Wind
    33. Con turret
    34. Wind ×2
    35. StarlightStarlight
    36. Wind
    37. MauserMauser
    38. ProphetRadar vehicle
    39. Wind ×3
    40. UmbraJammer
    41. Wind ×2
    42. StarlightStarlight
    43. Wind ×4
    44. Con turret
    45. StarlightStarlight
    46. Wind ×3
    47. Con turret
    48. Wind
    49. Metal storage
    50. JaguarJaguar
    51. Wind ×5
    52. Con turret
    53. Wind ×2
    54. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 12:38
    55. Wind
    56. Con turret
    57. Wind ×2
    58. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 12:45
    59. CitadelAnti-nukedone 13:11
    60. Wind ×2
    61. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 13:13
    62. Wind
    63. BlitzBlitz ×2
    64. Wind ×2
    65. BlitzBlitz ×7
    66. Wind
    67. BlitzBlitz
    68. Wind
    69. BlitzBlitz ×2
    70. Wind
    71. BlitzBlitz
    72. Wind
    73. BlitzBlitz ×3
    74. Wind ×2
    75. BlitzBlitz ×4
    76. Wind ×2
    77. BlitzBlitz ×3
    78. Wind
    79. BlitzBlitz ×4
    80. Wind ×3
    81. BlitzBlitz ×3
    82. Wind
    83. BlitzBlitz ×2
    84. Wind
    85. BlitzBlitz ×2
    86. Wind
    87. BlitzBlitz
    88. Wind
    89. BlitzBlitz
    90. Wind
    91. BlitzBlitz
    92. Wind
    93. BlitzBlitz ×2
    94. Wind ×2
    95. BlitzBlitz
    96. Wind
    97. BlitzBlitz
    98. Wind
    99. BlitzBlitz ×2
    100. Wind
    101. BlitzBlitz
    102. Wind
    103. BlitzBlitz
    104. Wind
    105. BlitzBlitz ×2
    106. Wind
    107. BlitzBlitz ×3
    108. Wind ×2
    109. BlitzBlitz
    110. Wind
    111. BlitzBlitz ×3
    112. Wind
    113. BlitzBlitz ×2
    114. Wind
    115. BlitzBlitz ×4
    116. Wind
    117. BlitzBlitz ×4
    118. Wind ×2
    119. BlitzBlitz ×3
    120. Wind
    121. BlitzBlitz ×5
    122. Wind

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is [MooDeng]NongJohn's (41 OS, 29/09/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

  • Lazarus1 Lazarus to Beach seafirst at 2:16 · in 78% of games
  • Construction Bot1 Con bot to Beach seafirst at 2:30 · in 88% of games
  • Advanced Construction Vehicle1 T2 con vehicle to Suicide front or Frontfirst at 8:52 · in 62% of games

You get

  • Hercules1 Light transport from Airfirst at 4:19 · in 34% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Techfirst at 4:48 · in 95% of games

How it plays out

Typical game of this build, running totals by minute

Metal produced

020k40k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

Enemy metal destroyed

05k10k15k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

Own metal lost

02.5k5k7.5k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

845 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0033300
2:0082700
3:00153000
4:00270700
5:00373200
6:00572700
7:00816700
8:0011507021
9:001453351130
10:0017436630320
11:00204162108824
12:002336940291940
13:002613961873295
14:002902585104756
15:0031663103966186
WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY

Standard Geo build dominates the resource numbers, with zero own losses through 10:00 and a huge metal lead by 15:00.

  • + Metal produced hits 31426 by 15:00, highest of all six builds
  • + Own metal lost is 0 by 5:00 and only 334 by 10:00
  • − First Starlight only arrives in 57% of games by 9:19
  • − Advanced geothermal lands in just 69% of games by 7:16
THE EXAMPLE YOU ARE READING

[MooDeng]NongJohn

41.2 OS · 29/09/2026

Open source match ↗

1 received units · includes a constructor
264 metal received · 72650 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Bot Lab1:11Middle 50%: 0:58–1:22 · n=844
Geothermal Powerplant3:26Middle 50%: 3:10–3:42 · n=843
Advanced Metal Extractor5:33Middle 50%: 5:17–5:56 · n=842
Advanced Geothermal Powerplant7:06Middle 50%: 6:49–7:33 · n=606
Vehicle Plant7:07Middle 50%: 6:41–7:40 · n=805
Advanced Vehicle Plant8:06Middle 50%: 7:40–8:47 · n=767
Starlight9:02Middle 50%: 8:32–9:51 · n=670

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