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Gauntlet defence

Armada Suicide front build order · Supreme Isthmus

A Bot Lab opening transitions into an early Gauntlet around 3:41, far earlier than usual, giving the suicide front a static artillery piece to anchor the middle before the normal T2 transition.

#defence #artillery · 148 distinct matches · 47 players · 5% of Armada Suicide front games · team won 57% of 153 · Recently observed

THE CATCH, AND WHAT COMES WITH IT
  • GauntletEarly defence from 3:41 · 7% of role by thenOnly 7% of Suicide front games have it by then; others who build it get it around 8:32

Where those units first fight, in 148 games with kill data: in the middle 100%.

Those units destroy a typical 1,330 metal of enemy units by 15:00.

Then transitions into rocketeer (14% of army), Rattlesnake (12% of army), Beamer (8% of army).

HOW TO PLAY IT

Key timing: Gauntlet by 3:42

  1. Open mex and Bot Lab as usual for Suicide front.
  2. Add early Beamers to start anchoring the middle.
  3. Push out a Gauntlet well ahead of the field to hold middle.
  4. Reclaim Bot Lab in many games to recycle metal into eco.
  5. Transition into Rocketeer and Rattlesnake army as T2 nears.

Phase by phase

TYPICAL OF ITS 148 GAMES · AGAINST STANDARD SUICIDE 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

    Bot Lab first

    Order
    1. Bot LabBot Lab done ~0:26, middle half 0:20–0:33

    Some games also: mex (48%)

  2. 2

    Bot Lab to Early defence

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor4Mex
    • Wind Turbine3Wind
    Order
    1. GauntletEarly defence after 5 mex, 3 winddone ~5:03, middle half 4:25–5:31
    Builders
    • Construction Bot3 Con bot
    • Lazarus2 Lazarus
    Army
    • Sentry2 Sentry −2 vs standard
    • Beamer2 Beamer +2 vs standard
    • Rocketeer6 Rocketeer −4 vs standard
    • Tick1 Tick
    Other
    • Radar Tower1 Radar Tower

    Some games also: pawn (49%) · centurion (47%)

    By 3:41 in all: 5 mex · 3 wind

    The example game in this phase · 32 steps
    1. Mex
    2. TickTick
    3. LazarusLazarus
    4. Mex
    5. Wind
    6. Construction BotCon bot
    7. SentrySentry
    8. CenturionCenturion
    9. Mex
    10. Construction BotCon bot
    11. SentrySentry
    12. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    13. Mex
    14. RocketeerRocketeer
    15. SentrySentry
    16. RocketeerRocketeer
    17. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    18. Construction BotCon bot
    19. SentrySentry
    20. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    21. RocketeerRocketeer
    22. Mex
    23. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    24. Wind
    25. CenturionCenturion
    26. Wind
    27. Con turret
    28. Wind
    29. Energy storage
    30. Con turret
    31. Wind ×2
    32. GauntletGauntletdone 5:12 · typical 5:03
  3. 3

    Early defence to 10:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor1Mex
    • Wind Turbine24Wind+6 vs standard
    • Energy Storage1Energy storage
    Builders
    • Construction Turret3 Con turret
    • Lazarus1 Lazarus
    • Construction Bot1 Con bot
    Army
    • Sentry1 Sentry
    • Beamer1 Beamer
    • Rocketeer2 Rocketeer −13 vs standard
    Other
    • Dragon's Teeth4 Dragon's Teeth +4 vs standard

    Some games also: tick (43%) · Sneaky Pete (41%) · converter (39%) · pawn (39%) · Gauntlet (38%) · eat Bot Lab (42%)

    By 10:00 in all: 6 mex · 26 wind · 1 energy storage · 4 con turret (standard 2)

    The example game in this phase · 228 steps
    1. Wind ×3
    2. Bot LabEat Bot Labreclaimed for its metal
    3. BeamerBeamer
    4. Wind
    5. Bot LabBot Labdone 6:19
    6. Wind ×2
    7. BeamerBeamer
    8. Wind ×2
    9. SentrySentry
    10. Wind ×2
    11. SentrySentry
    12. Converter
    13. Wind ×2
    14. SentrySentry
    15. Wind
    16. Converter
    17. Wind ×3
    18. TickTick
    19. Wind
    20. BeamerBeamer
    21. TickTick ×2
    22. Wind
    23. TickTick ×2
    24. Converter
    25. Con turret
    26. Wind
    27. TickTick
    28. Wind
    29. TickTick
    30. Wind
    31. TickTick ×3
    32. Wind
    33. Converter
    34. TickTick ×3
    35. Converter
    36. TickTick ×2
    37. Converter
    38. TickTick
    39. Wind
    40. TickTick
    41. Converter
    42. TickTick
    43. Sneaky PeteSneaky Pete
    44. Wind
    45. TickTick
    46. Converter
    47. TickTick
    48. Wind
    49. TickTick
    50. Converter
    51. TickTick
    52. Wind
    53. TickTick
    54. Con turret
    55. TickTick
    56. Wind
    57. SentrySentry
    58. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:01 · typical 9:26
    59. TickTick ×2
    60. Wind
    61. TickTick ×2
    62. Wind
    63. TickTick ×2
    64. Wind
    65. TickTick
    66. LazarusLazarus
    67. Wind
    68. LazarusLazarus
    69. TickTick ×2
    70. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    71. TickTick ×3
    72. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    73. TickTick ×7
    74. RattlesnakeRattlesnakedone 12:13
    75. TickTick ×4
    76. Con turret
    77. TickTick ×3
    78. SharpshooterSniper botdone 10:24
    79. Con turret
    80. TickTick ×5
    81. Con turret
    82. TickTick
    83. Con turret
    84. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    85. TickTick ×2
    86. Wind
    87. TickTick ×6
    88. Wind
    89. TickTick ×3
    90. Wind
    91. TickTick
    92. Converter
    93. TickTick ×3
    94. Wind
    95. Con turret ×2
    96. TickTick
    97. Converter
    98. Wind
    99. TickTick
    100. Wind
    101. TickTick
    102. Converter
    103. TickTick
    104. Wind
    105. TickTick ×3
    106. Wind
    107. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    108. TickTick
    109. Converter
    110. LazarusLazarus ×2
    111. Wind
    112. Con turret
    113. LazarusLazarus
    114. Converter
    115. Wind ×2
    116. LazarusLazarus
    117. Wind
    118. Converter
    119. TickTick ×2
    120. Wind
    121. TickTick ×4
    122. Converter
    123. TickTick
    124. Wind
    125. TickTick ×4
    126. Wind
    127. TickTick ×3
    128. Converter
    129. Wind
    130. TickTick ×3
    131. Wind
    132. TickTick ×4
    133. Converter
    134. Wind
    135. TickTick
    136. Advanced Bot LabAdvanced Bot Labdone 13:32
    137. TickTick
    138. Wind
    139. Converter
    140. Wind
    141. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    142. Wind
    143. StarlightStarlightdone 13:14
    144. Converter
    145. Wind ×2
    146. Converter
    147. Wind
    148. SentrySentry
    149. TickTick
    150. Wind
    151. TickTick
    152. Converter
    153. Advanced Construction BotT2 con bot
    154. TickTick ×2
    155. Wind
    156. TickTick ×2
    157. SentrySentry
    158. TickTick
    159. Wind
    160. TickTick
    161. Converter
    162. TickTick
    163. Advanced Construction BotT2 con bot
    164. TickTick
    165. Wind
    166. TickTick
    167. SentrySentry
    168. TickTick ×3
    169. Converter
    170. TickTick
    171. Wind
    172. TickTick
    173. PlatypusPlatypus
    174. TickTick ×3
    175. Wind
    176. TickTick ×2
    177. Converter
    178. PlatypusPlatypus
    179. SentrySentry
    180. Con turret
    181. TickTick
    182. Wind
    183. TickTick ×3
    184. Wind
    185. TickTick
    186. PlatypusPlatypus
    187. TickTick ×2
    188. Converter
    189. TickTick
    190. Wind
    191. TickTick
    192. PlatypusPlatypus
    193. TickTick
    194. Wind
    195. TickTick ×2
    196. PlatypusPlatypus
    197. TickTick ×2
    198. Converter
    199. Wind
    200. TickTick ×2
    201. PlatypusPlatypus
    202. TickTick
    203. Wind
    204. TickTick ×3
    205. PlatypusPlatypus
    206. Con turret
    207. Wind
    208. TickTick
    209. Converter
    210. TickTick
    211. Pit BullPit Bull
    212. Wind
    213. TickTick
    214. PlatypusPlatypus
    215. CitadelAnti-nukenot finished by 15:00
    216. TickTick ×3
    217. SentrySentry
    218. Wind
    219. PlatypusPlatypus
    220. TickTick
    221. Converter
    222. TickTick
    223. Wind
    224. TickTick
    225. SentrySentry
    226. TickTick
    227. Wind
    228. TickTick

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Cokeado's (37 OS, 05/10/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

Nothing regular.

You get

  • Tidal Generator4 Tidal from Pondfirst at 0:10 · in 71% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Geo or Techfirst at 7:40 · in 72% of games

How it plays out

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

  • This build
  • Standard suicide 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

153 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildMetal produced: Standard suicide frontEnemy metal destroyed: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: Standard suicide frontOwn metal lost: This buildOwn metal lost: Standard suicide front
1:002292300000
2:0087988700210
3:0019742009186184127130
4:0031803110463645314501
5:004326418490213566891000
6:00546453471442218311621708
7:00656865392541305118892597
8:00789077603363393825083503
9:00929990464150469332344376
10:0011035104185075531438155163
11:0012944118945498585747115965
12:0015264136066111640653326686
13:0018184154126605687662127439
14:0021681173067410750368748212
15:0024921192928450810979748997
WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY

Slightly lower team win rate than standard but produces more metal and loses less by 15:00, trading some kills for safety.

  • + Own metal lost drops to 8453 vs 9182 standard by 15:00.
  • + Metal production climbs to 24621 vs 20088 standard by 15:00.
  • − Enemy metal destroyed lags standard at every checkpoint.
  • − Team win rate falls to 51% vs 58% standard.
THE EXAMPLE YOU ARE READING

Cokeado

36.6 OS · 05/10/2026

Open source match ↗

7 received units · includes a constructor
367 metal received · 21246 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Bot Lab0:26Middle 50%: 0:20–0:33 · n=153
Gauntlet5:03Middle 50%: 4:25–5:31 · n=141
Advanced Metal Extractor9:26Middle 50%: 8:38–10:23 · n=131

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