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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 · 48 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 8:31

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

Those units destroy a typical 1,308 metal of enemy units by 15:00.

Then transitions into rocketeer (14% of army), Rattlesnake (13% 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 4:25–5:30
    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 (48%)

    By 3:41 in all: 5 mex · 3 wind

    The example game in this phase · 25 steps
    1. Mex
    2. TickTick
    3. Construction BotCon bot
    4. Wind
    5. Mex
    6. Wind
    7. SentrySentry
    8. Construction BotCon bot
    9. CenturionCenturion
    10. Mex
    11. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    12. LazarusLazarus
    13. Construction BotCon bot
    14. SentrySentry
    15. Mex
    16. RocketeerRocketeer
    17. SentrySentry
    18. Mex
    19. RocketeerRocketeer
    20. BeamerBeamer
    21. RocketeerRocketeer
    22. SentrySentry
    23. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    24. LazarusLazarus
    25. GauntletGauntletnot finished by 15:00 · 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 (44%) · Sneaky Pete (41%) · converter (39%) · pawn (39%) · Gauntlet (38%) · eat Bot Lab (42%)

    By 10:00 in all: 6 mex · 27 wind · 1 energy storage · 4 con turret (standard 2)

    The example game in this phase · 258 steps
    1. Construction BotCon bot
    2. BeamerBeamer
    3. PawnPawn ×4
    4. GauntletGauntlet
    5. PawnPawn
    6. Wind
    7. Construction BotCon bot
    8. Wind ×4
    9. BeamerBeamer
    10. Wind
    11. LazarusLazarus
    12. Wind
    13. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    14. Con turret
    15. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    16. Wind
    17. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×3
    18. LazarusLazarus
    19. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    20. Wind
    21. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×4
    22. LazarusLazarus
    23. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    24. Con turret ×2
    25. Sneaky PeteSneaky Pete
    26. Con turret
    27. BeamerBeamer
    28. Wind ×3
    29. Energy storage
    30. Wind ×6
    31. Advanced solar
    32. Wind
    33. BlitzBlitz
    34. PawnPawn
    35. Wind
    36. Converter
    37. Con turret
    38. Wind
    39. PawnPawn
    40. Wind
    41. Converter
    42. Energy storage
    43. BlitzBlitz
    44. Wind
    45. Converter
    46. BlitzBlitz
    47. Converter
    48. Construction BotCon bot
    49. BlitzBlitz
    50. Advanced solar
    51. Converter
    52. BlitzBlitz
    53. Wind ×2
    54. BlitzBlitz
    55. Converter
    56. BlitzBlitz
    57. Construction BotCon bot
    58. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 10:57 · typical 9:25
    59. Converter
    60. BlitzBlitz
    61. Wind ×2
    62. Construction BotCon bot
    63. BlitzBlitz
    64. Advanced solar
    65. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    66. Converter
    67. BeamerBeamer
    68. Wind ×2
    69. BlitzBlitz
    70. TickTick
    71. Converter
    72. Wind ×2
    73. BlitzBlitz
    74. TickTick
    75. Advanced solar
    76. Wind
    77. Converter
    78. BlitzBlitz
    79. TickTick
    80. Converter
    81. BeamerBeamer
    82. Wind
    83. TickTick
    84. Converter ×2
    85. TickTick
    86. BlitzBlitz
    87. Wind
    88. BeamerBeamer
    89. Advanced Construction VehicleT2 con vehicle
    90. Wind ×2
    91. TickTick
    92. Advanced solar
    93. Wind
    94. BlitzBlitz
    95. Wind
    96. ConsulConsul
    97. Wind
    98. BeamerBeamer
    99. Converter
    100. TickTick
    101. Wind ×2
    102. BlitzBlitz
    103. Wind
    104. ConsulConsul
    105. Wind ×2
    106. TickTick
    107. Wind ×2
    108. BlitzBlitz
    109. JaguarJaguar
    110. Converter
    111. Wind ×2
    112. TickTick
    113. JaguarJaguar
    114. BlitzBlitz
    115. Wind
    116. BeamerBeamer
    117. Con turret
    118. Converter ×2
    119. Wind
    120. TickTick
    121. JaguarJaguar
    122. BlitzBlitz
    123. RattlesnakeRattlesnakedone 12:46
    124. Wind
    125. JaguarJaguar
    126. Converter
    127. Advanced solar
    128. Wind
    129. TickTick
    130. BlitzBlitz
    131. JaguarJaguar
    132. Wind
    133. BeamerBeamer
    134. BlitzBlitz
    135. Converter
    136. JaguarJaguar
    137. Wind ×2
    138. TickTick
    139. Mex
    140. BlitzBlitz
    141. Advanced solar
    142. Wind
    143. JaguarJaguar
    144. BeamerBeamer
    145. Converter
    146. BeamerBeamer
    147. BlitzBlitz
    148. Converter
    149. Wind
    150. TickTick
    151. JaguarJaguar
    152. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    153. Wind
    154. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    155. Converter
    156. Advanced solar
    157. BlitzBlitz
    158. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    159. Wind
    160. TickTick
    161. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    162. BeamerBeamer
    163. Wind
    164. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×3
    165. BlitzBlitz
    166. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    167. TickTick
    168. Converter
    169. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    170. Wind
    171. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    172. Energy storage
    173. Converter
    174. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    175. Wind
    176. BlitzBlitz
    177. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    178. TickTick
    179. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    180. Wind
    181. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    182. Advanced solar
    183. TickTick
    184. Wind
    185. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    186. BlitzBlitz
    187. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    188. RattlesnakeRattlesnake
    189. Converter
    190. BeamerBeamer
    191. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    192. Converter
    193. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    194. TickTick
    195. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    196. Wind
    197. Bot LabEat Bot Labreclaimed for its metal
    198. BlitzBlitz
    199. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    200. Wind
    201. Advanced solar
    202. Wind
    203. BlitzBlitz
    204. Wind ×2
    205. Converter
    206. BlitzBlitz
    207. Advanced solar
    208. Converter
    209. Wind
    210. BlitzBlitz
    211. Wind ×3
    212. Converter
    213. BlitzBlitz
    214. BeamerBeamer
    215. JaguarJaguar
    216. Advanced solar
    217. Wind
    218. Converter
    219. BeamerBeamer
    220. JaguarJaguar
    221. BlitzBlitz
    222. Converter ×2
    223. JaguarJaguar
    224. Wind
    225. BlitzBlitz
    226. Advanced solar
    227. BeamerBeamer
    228. JaguarJaguar
    229. Converter
    230. BeamerBeamer ×2
    231. Wind
    232. JaguarJaguar
    233. Converter ×2
    234. Wind
    235. Advanced solar
    236. JaguarJaguar ×2
    237. Converter
    238. Wind
    239. JaguarJaguar
    240. Converter
    241. JaguarJaguar
    242. Advanced solar
    243. JaguarJaguar ×2
    244. Pit BullPit Bull
    245. JaguarJaguar
    246. Converter
    247. Wind
    248. JaguarJaguar
    249. Con turret
    250. JaguarJaguar
    251. JunoJuno
    252. Advanced Construction VehicleT2 con vehicle
    253. Converter
    254. Energy storage
    255. Con turret
    256. Wind
    257. JunoJuno
    258. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is krtf's (47 OS, 08/10/2026); 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
1:002302300000
2:0087888600210
3:0019692007190184127130
4:0031793108463643314501
5:00432641849021352689998
6:00546453491446218311621707
7:00656865442577305118892590
8:00789077603417393525623502
9:00929990354152469032804383
10:0011055104125075531438645163
11:0012988118895498585847185965
12:0015316135836111640653356686
13:0018261154046605687562557453
14:0021718172987410750368808214
15:0025008192928450810981689007
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

krtf

47.0 OS · 08/10/2026

Open source match ↗

157 received units · includes a constructor
2719 metal received · 68509 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%: 4:25–5:30 · n=141
Advanced Metal Extractor9:25Middle 50%: 8:38–10:23 · n=131

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