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Suicide front / Armada / Factory first / OBSERVED BUILD

Standard suicide front

The role's default: factory first (mostly Bot Lab), pushing Rocketeer-led bot play into the middle to contest and hold the front, with an Advanced Metal Extractor around 9:36 as the natural transition.

Usually lab first (63%)

#raid #push · 1291 distinct matches · 127 players · 71% of Armada Suicide front games · team won 59% of 1529 · Recently observed

HOW TO PLAY IT

Key timing: Bot Lab by 0:20

  1. Open with mex and wind, drop Bot Lab immediately.
  2. Push out first "Centurion" as Pond's boost lands.
  3. Send "Rocketeer", "Centurion", "Pawn" mix to contest middle.
  4. Add Dragon's Teeth and Sentries to hold the line.
  5. Get Advanced Metal Extractor up as T2 nears.

Phase by phase

TYPICAL OF ITS 1291 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

    Bot Lab first

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

    Some games also: mex (36%)

  2. 2

    Bot Lab to 5:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor5Mex
    • Wind Turbine4Wind
    Builders
    • Construction Bot3 Con bot
    • Lazarus2 Lazarus
    Army
    • Sentry4 Sentry
    • Rocketeer17 Rocketeer
    • Tick2 Tick
    • Centurion1 Centurion
    Other
    • Radar Tower1 Radar Tower

    Some games also: con turret (35%) · pawn (32%)

    By 5:00 in all: 5 mex · 4 wind

    The example game in this phase · 42 steps
    1. Construction BotCon bot
    2. Mex
    3. Wind
    4. TickTick
    5. SentrySentry
    6. Mex
    7. Construction BotCon bot
    8. Mex
    9. Construction BotCon bot
    10. Mex
    11. SentrySentry
    12. CenturionCenturion
    13. Wind
    14. Mex
    15. LazarusLazarus
    16. Wind
    17. RocketeerRocketeer
    18. SentrySentry
    19. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    20. SentrySentry
    21. Wind
    22. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    23. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    24. RocketeerRocketeer
    25. Con turret
    26. RocketeerRocketeer ×9
    27. Wind
    28. RocketeerRocketeer
    29. Wind
    30. RocketeerRocketeer
    31. Wind
    32. RocketeerRocketeer
    33. Wind
    34. RocketeerRocketeer
    35. Wind
    36. RocketeerRocketeer
    37. Wind
    38. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    39. Energy storage
    40. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    41. Converter
    42. RocketeerRocketeer
  3. 3

    5:00 to 10:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor1Mex
    • Wind Turbine17Wind
    Builders
    • Construction Turret2 Con turret
    • Lazarus2 Lazarus
    • Construction Bot1 Con bot
    Army
    • Sentry1 Sentry
    • Rocketeer8 Rocketeer
    • Pawn1 Pawn

    Some games also: tick (47%) · energy storage (46%) · Radar Tower (46%) · centurion (45%) · Beamer (39%)

    By 10:00 in all: 6 mex · 23 wind · 1 energy storage · 3 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 92 steps
    1. RocketeerRocketeer
    2. Con turret
    3. RocketeerRocketeer ×4
    4. Wind ×2
    5. RocketeerRocketeer
    6. Con turret
    7. RocketeerRocketeer
    8. OverwatchOverwatch
    9. Wind
    10. RocketeerRocketeer
    11. Wind
    12. RocketeerRocketeer
    13. Wind
    14. RocketeerRocketeer
    15. Wind
    16. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    17. RocketeerRocketeer
    18. Wind
    19. GauntletGauntletdone 8:07
    20. RocketeerRocketeer
    21. Wind
    22. RocketeerRocketeer
    23. Wind
    24. RocketeerRocketeer
    25. Wind
    26. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    27. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 8:25 · typical 9:36
    28. RocketeerRocketeer
    29. LazarusLazarus
    30. RocketeerRocketeer ×4
    31. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    32. RocketeerRocketeer ×4
    33. Converter
    34. RocketeerRocketeer
    35. Wind
    36. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    37. Converter
    38. CenturionCenturion
    39. Wind
    40. CenturionCenturion
    41. Wind
    42. Converter
    43. Wind
    44. Converter
    45. Wind
    46. Converter
    47. Wind
    48. Converter
    49. Wind ×2
    50. Construction BotCon bot
    51. Wind
    52. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    53. Construction BotCon bot
    54. Wind
    55. Construction BotCon bot
    56. Wind ×3
    57. RattlesnakeRattlesnakedone 11:58
    58. Wind ×3
    59. Con turret
    60. Wind ×4
    61. Pit BullPit Bull
    62. TickTick
    63. Con turret
    64. TickTick ×2
    65. Converter
    66. Wind
    67. Construction BotCon bot
    68. Wind ×2
    69. Construction BotCon bot
    70. Wind
    71. Construction BotCon bot
    72. Wind
    73. Construction BotCon bot
    74. Wind
    75. Construction BotCon bot
    76. Wind
    77. Construction BotCon bot
    78. Wind
    79. Converter ×2
    80. Wind
    81. CitadelAnti-nukedone 14:51
    82. Wind ×5
    83. PawnPawn
    84. Wind ×2
    85. PawnPawn
    86. Converter ×2
    87. PawnPawn
    88. Wind
    89. PawnPawn
    90. Wind
    91. PawnPawn
    92. Wind

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is TrapCaT's (42 OS, 20/09/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

Nothing regular.

You get

  • Tidal Generator4 Tidal from Pondfirst at 0:10 · in 69% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Geo or Techfirst at 7:30 · in 59% 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

1529 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0022600
2:0088800
3:002051180106
4:003161658496
5:00424314131026
6:00543322981789
7:00667031752710
8:00792040313619
9:00931747964495
10:001069954265316
11:001226559036054
12:001411365126830
13:001622270137536
14:001810976968373
15:002046683299249
WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY

Standard suicide front play wins slightly more than half its games with fast kills but also fast losses, matching the raw grind of the role.

  • + First kill lands by 2:04 in all games
  • + Metal produced reaches 19882 by 15:00
  • − Own metal lost hits 9208 by 15:00, near metal destroyed of 8172
  • − First unit lost as early as 2:08 in every game
THE EXAMPLE YOU ARE READING

TrapCaT

42.1 OS · 20/09/2026

Open source match ↗

14 received units · includes a constructor
642 metal received · 58323 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Bot Lab0:20Middle 50%: 0:20–0:33 · n=1522
Advanced Metal Extractor9:36Middle 50%: 8:41–10:48 · n=1128

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