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Suicide front / Armada / Factory first / OBSERVED BUILD

Standard suicide front

Bot Lab first into Rocketeer/Centurion/Pawn to contest the middle early and hold until T2 arrives, the role's baseline play.

Usually lab first (62%)

#rush · 1185 distinct matches · 125 players · 71% of Armada Suicide front games · team won 60% of 1411 · 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 1185 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 (37%)

  2. 2

    Bot Lab to 5:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor5Mex
    • Wind Turbine4Wind
    Builders
    • Construction Bot3 Con bot
    • Lazarus2 Lazarus
    Army
    • Sentry4 Sentry
    • Rocketeer18 Rocketeer
    • Tick2 Tick
    • Centurion1 Centurion
    Other
    • Radar Tower1 Radar Tower

    Some games also: con turret (35%) · pawn (31%)

    By 5:00 in all: 5 mex · 5 wind

    The example game in this phase · 27 steps
    1. TickTick
    2. Mex
    3. Construction BotCon bot
    4. Mex
    5. SentrySentry
    6. Construction BotCon bot
    7. Mex
    8. CenturionCenturion
    9. Construction BotCon bot
    10. Mex ×2
    11. SentrySentry
    12. LazarusLazarus
    13. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    14. RocketeerRocketeer
    15. SentrySentry
    16. Wind
    17. RocketeerRocketeer
    18. SentrySentry
    19. RocketeerRocketeer
    20. SentrySentry
    21. RocketeerRocketeer ×7
    22. TickTick
    23. LazarusLazarus
    24. Construction BotCon bot
    25. RocketeerRocketeer ×4
    26. CenturionCenturion
    27. RocketeerRocketeer ×7
  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 (48%) · Radar Tower (47%) · energy storage (46%) · centurion (45%) · Beamer (38%)

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

    The example game in this phase · 77 steps
    1. RocketeerRocketeer
    2. TickTick
    3. LazarusLazarus
    4. Construction BotCon bot
    5. CenturionCenturion ×2
    6. Mex
    7. Converter
    8. CenturionCenturion
    9. Mex
    10. TickTick ×2
    11. LazarusLazarus
    12. Mex
    13. CenturionCenturion ×2
    14. RocketeerRocketeer
    15. BeamerBeamerfor Geo
    16. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    17. TickTick
    18. RocketeerRocketeer
    19. Wind
    20. RocketeerRocketeer
    21. Con turret
    22. CenturionCenturion
    23. RocketeerRocketeer
    24. Mex
    25. TickTick
    26. RocketeerRocketeer
    27. TickTick
    28. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    29. CenturionCenturion
    30. TickTick
    31. CenturionCenturion
    32. Con turret
    33. TickTick
    34. LazarusLazarus
    35. Wind ×2
    36. Construction BotCon bot
    37. Wind
    38. CenturionCenturion
    39. Wind ×4
    40. CenturionCenturion
    41. Wind
    42. Mex
    43. Wind
    44. Con turret
    45. Wind
    46. Solar
    47. BeamerBeamer
    48. CenturionCenturion
    49. Solar
    50. Wind
    51. BeamerBeamer
    52. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 12:55 · typical 9:37
    53. Energy storage
    54. Wind
    55. BeamerBeamer
    56. Construction BotCon bot
    57. TickTick
    58. Wind
    59. Construction BotCon bot
    60. Wind
    61. Construction BotCon bot
    62. BeamerBeamer ×2for Geo
    63. Con turret ×2
    64. Construction BotCon bot
    65. Energy storage
    66. Con turret
    67. Wind ×2
    68. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    69. Wind ×4
    70. Con turret
    71. Wind ×3
    72. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    73. Wind
    74. Con turret
    75. Wind ×5
    76. BeamerBeamer
    77. Wind

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is watermeloans's (59 OS, 01/09/2026); 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 58% 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

1411 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0022600
2:0088900
3:002056172106
4:003161660486
5:00423614131020
6:00543023271785
7:00666131792732
8:00791040353631
9:00929848164516
10:001068854265336
11:001224158986080
12:001402465176842
13:001604270137523
14:001796976808336
15:002029783029228
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

watermeloans

59.2 OS · 01/09/2026

Open source match ↗

27 received units · includes a constructor
106 metal received · 14531 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=1405
Advanced Metal Extractor9:37Middle 50%: 8:41–10:48 · n=1035

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