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Stout rush

Front skips early economy expansion to push Stout tanks out of the Vehicle Plant by 4:38, reaching a real Stout push around 7:00 to fight forward at middle before falling back on a delayed Bot Lab and mex.

#rush #push · 24 distinct matches · 12 players · 2% of Armada Front games · team won 33% of 24 · Recently observed

THE CATCH, AND WHAT COMES WITH IT
  • StoutT1 vehicle assault from 4:46 · 8% of role by thenFrom the Vehicle Plant. Only 8% of Front games have it by then; others who build it get it around 7:50
  • StoutStout in 79%2% of all Front games by then
  • ShellshockerArty in 50%11% of all Front games by then

Where those units first fight, in 24 games with kill data: in the middle 100%.

Those units destroy a typical 1,119 metal of enemy units by 15:00.

Then transitions into blitz (11% of army), janus (9% of army).

HOW TO PLAY IT

Key timing: Stout push by 4:38

  1. Open Vehicle Plant fast, then mex and solar as usual.
  2. Add Shellshocker artillery to back the coming push.
  3. Commit to Stout-led T1 vehicle assault at middle.
  4. Keep Stout flowing as the main force at front.
  5. Bring Bot Lab online as the push transitions.

Phase by phase

TYPICAL OF ITS 24 GAMES · AGAINST STANDARD FRONT
  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 Vehicle Plant

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor2Mex
    Order
    1. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plant after 2 mexdone ~0:42, middle half 0:35–0:48

    Some games also: wind (46%)

    By 0:23 in all: 2 mex

    The example game in this phase · 3 steps
    1. Mex
    2. Solar
    3. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 0:38 · typical 0:42
  2. 2

    Vehicle Plant to T1 vehicle assault

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor5Mex
    • Wind Turbine3Wind
    Order
    1. StoutT1 vehicle assault after 6 mex, 3 wind
    Builders
    • Construction Vehicle2 Con vehicle
    Army
    • Sentry2 Sentry
    • Janus3 Janus
    • Rover3 Scout +2 vs standard
    • Blitz2 Blitz +2 vs standard

    Some games also: arty (38%) · con turret (33%)

    By 4:36 in all: 6 mex · 3 wind (standard 5)

    The example game in this phase · 24 steps
    1. RoverScout
    2. Mex
    3. Wind
    4. RoverScout ×2
    5. Mex
    6. RoverScout
    7. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    8. JanusJanus
    9. Wind
    10. JanusJanus
    11. Mex
    12. JanusJanus
    13. Mex
    14. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    15. Mex
    16. ShellshockerArty
    17. SentrySentry
    18. ShellshockerArty
    19. GroundhogGroundhog
    20. ShellshockerArty ×4
    21. Construction VehicleCon vehicle ×2
    22. ShellshockerArty
    23. JanusJanus
    24. StoutStoutdone 4:42
  3. 3

    T1 vehicle assault to 10:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor1Mex
    • Wind Turbine14Wind−5 vs standard
    • Energy Storage1Energy storage
    Builders
    • Construction Turret2 Con turret
    • Construction Vehicle2 Con vehicle +2 vs standard
    Army
    • Sentry1 Sentry
    • Stout10 Stout +10 vs standard

    Some games also: converter (50%) · Radar Tower (42%) · Dragon's Teeth (42%) · scout (33%) · solar (33%)

    The standard build makes here, this one skips: 5 blitz

    By 10:00 in all: 8 mex · 22 wind · 1 energy storage · 2 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 122 steps
    1. Con turret
    2. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    3. BeamerBeamer
    4. StoutStout ×2
    5. Con turret
    6. StoutStout
    7. Wind
    8. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×4
    9. StoutStout
    10. Wind ×2
    11. Con turret
    12. Wind
    13. StoutStout
    14. Wind
    15. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    16. Wind ×2
    17. SentrySentry
    18. StoutStout
    19. Wind ×2
    20. StoutStout
    21. Wind ×2
    22. StoutStout
    23. BeamerBeamer
    24. Wind ×2
    25. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    26. Wind
    27. StoutStout
    28. Wind ×2
    29. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    30. Wind ×2
    31. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    32. Wind ×2
    33. Con turret
    34. Wind
    35. Converter
    36. Wind ×2
    37. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    38. Converter
    39. Wind ×3
    40. Converter
    41. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    42. Mex
    43. Solar
    44. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    45. Converter
    46. Wind
    47. Converter
    48. Wind ×3
    49. Con turret
    50. Wind
    51. Converter
    52. BeamerBeamer
    53. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    54. Wind
    55. BlitzBlitz
    56. Wind
    57. Converter
    58. SentrySentry
    59. Wind
    60. Converter
    61. BeamerBeamer
    62. Converter
    63. Mex
    64. Converter
    65. BlitzBlitz
    66. Mex
    67. Advanced solar
    68. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    69. Converter
    70. BlitzBlitz ×4
    71. Converter
    72. BlitzBlitz ×3
    73. Mex
    74. BlitzBlitz
    75. Advanced solar
    76. Converter
    77. StoutStout
    78. Energy storage
    79. Advanced solar
    80. Converter
    81. Wind
    82. Mex
    83. Advanced solar
    84. Wind
    85. Advanced solar
    86. RoverScout
    87. Wind
    88. StoutStout
    89. Wind
    90. RoverScout
    91. Advanced solar
    92. Mex
    93. StoutStout
    94. Advanced solar
    95. Wind ×2
    96. RoverScout
    97. StoutStout
    98. Advanced solar
    99. Wind
    100. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    101. Mex
    102. Wind
    103. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 13:51 · typical 9:48
    104. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    105. Con turret
    106. Wind
    107. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    108. Wind
    109. Advanced solar
    110. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    111. Wind
    112. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    113. Wind
    114. Advanced solar
    115. Wind ×2
    116. Energy storage
    117. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    118. StoutStout
    119. Wind
    120. Advanced solar
    121. StoutStout
    122. Wind

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is CentientWaffle's (39 OS, 25/08/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

Nothing regular.

You get

  • Tidal Generator4 Tidal from Pondfirst at 0:15 · in 67% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Geo or Techfirst at 7:20 · in 63% of games

How it plays out

Typical game of this build against the role’s standard build, running totals by minute

  • This build
  • Standard front

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

24 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildMetal produced: Standard frontEnemy metal destroyed: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: Standard frontOwn metal lost: This buildOwn metal lost: Standard front
1:003323330000
2:0082284537213131
3:001659162516714173105
4:0027472713556541322333
5:003867386812021197694816
6:00507250781893212112181524
7:00622563392522301219942448
8:00754176673130387727133357
9:00892491183714466933014311
10:0010564106963973534244365050
11:0012312126474700583955305699
12:0015023148665299639758056527
13:0018132174635674701363847244
14:0021445201846608762967278090
15:0023382226777727839781958941
WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY

Won far less often than the standard build, destroying and losing less enemy metal at every checkpoint.

  • + Loses less metal by 15:00 (7853 vs 8949)
  • + Loses less metal early by 5:00 (705 vs 849)
  • − Destroys much less enemy metal by 15:00 (6187 vs 8347)
  • − Team win rate falls to 32% vs standard's 61%
THE EXAMPLE YOU ARE READING

CentientWaffle

39.1 OS · 25/08/2026

Open source match ↗

7 received units · includes a constructor
1675 metal received · 18751 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Vehicle Plant0:42Middle 50%: 0:35–0:48 · n=24
Advanced Metal Extractor9:48Middle 50%: 8:06–10:23 · n=20
Bot Lab11:32Middle 50%: 10:29–13:43 · n=13

Played most by

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