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Suicide front / Armada / Factory first / OBSERVED BUILD

Standard suicide front

Armada Suicide front build order · Supreme Isthmus

The role's standard play: bot lab first, Rocketeer/Centurion/Pawn based force pushes into the middle to contest and hold it until T2 arrives.

Usually lab first (63%)

#rush #push · 1309 distinct matches · 127 players · 71% of Armada Suicide front games · team won 59% of 1550 · 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 1309 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
    • Rocketeer17 Rocketeer
    • Tick2 Tick
    • Centurion1 Centurion
    Other
    • Radar Tower1 Radar Tower

    Some games also: con turret (35%) · pawn (33%)

    By 5:00 in all: 5 mex · 4 wind

    The example game in this phase · 38 steps
    1. Mex
    2. Construction BotCon bot
    3. Mex
    4. Wind ×3
    5. CenturionCenturionfor Front
    6. SentrySentry
    7. Construction BotCon bot
    8. Mex ×2
    9. Construction BotCon bot
    10. LazarusLazarus
    11. SentrySentry
    12. LazarusLazarus
    13. Wind
    14. RocketeerRocketeer
    15. SentrySentry
    16. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    17. Wind
    18. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    19. Wind
    20. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    21. Mex
    22. Wind
    23. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    24. SentrySentry ×2
    25. RocketeerRocketeer
    26. Wind
    27. RocketeerRocketeer
    28. SentrySentry ×2
    29. RocketeerRocketeer
    30. Wind
    31. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    32. Wind
    33. SentrySentry
    34. Construction BotCon bot
    35. SentrySentry
    36. CenturionCenturion
    37. Wind
    38. Construction BotCon bot
  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%) · Radar Tower (46%) · energy storage (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 · 98 steps
    1. Wind
    2. Construction BotCon bot
    3. SentrySentry
    4. LazarusLazarus ×2
    5. Wind
    6. RocketeerRocketeer
    7. SentrySentry
    8. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    9. Wind
    10. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    11. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    12. RocketeerRocketeer
    13. Wind
    14. RocketeerRocketeer
    15. Mex
    16. Converter
    17. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    18. Wind
    19. RocketeerRocketeer
    20. Converter
    21. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    22. Wind
    23. RocketeerRocketeer
    24. Converter
    25. RocketeerRocketeer
    26. Construction BotCon bot
    27. CenturionCenturion
    28. Wind
    29. Converter
    30. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    31. Wind
    32. LazarusLazarus
    33. Converter
    34. LazarusLazarus
    35. RocketeerRocketeer
    36. Wind
    37. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    38. Converter
    39. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    40. Wind
    41. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    42. Construction BotCon bot
    43. CenturionCenturion
    44. PawnPawn
    45. Wind
    46. PawnPawn
    47. Energy storage
    48. PawnPawn ×4
    49. Wind
    50. PawnPawn ×3
    51. Converter
    52. PawnPawn
    53. Wind
    54. PawnPawn ×2
    55. Converter
    56. PawnPawn
    57. Wind
    58. Con turret
    59. PawnPawn ×2
    60. Converter
    61. PawnPawn
    62. Wind
    63. PawnPawn
    64. Converter
    65. PawnPawn
    66. Converter
    67. Con turret
    68. Wind
    69. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantnot finished by 15:00
    70. Converter
    71. Wind ×7
    72. Mex
    73. Converter
    74. Wind ×3
    75. Converter
    76. Mex
    77. Wind ×2
    78. Mex
    79. Wind
    80. Converter
    81. Wind ×3
    82. Converter ×2
    83. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 14:04
    84. Wind ×4
    85. Converter ×2
    86. Wind ×3
    87. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 14:50
    88. Wind
    89. Converter ×2
    90. Wind ×4
    91. Converter ×2
    92. Wind ×4
    93. Converter
    94. Wind ×2
    95. Converter
    96. Wind ×2
    97. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    98. Converter

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is PixelPeeker's (43 OS, 07/09/2026); 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

1550 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0022600
2:0088900
3:002051180106
4:003161660496
5:00424314171026
6:00543423001787
7:00667231752706
8:00792440303613
9:00931647974495
10:001069854325318
11:001225359116059
12:001410665186829
13:001622670297536
14:001809577098373
15:002043283489240
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

PixelPeeker

42.7 OS · 07/09/2026

Open source match ↗

9 received units · includes a constructor
964 metal received · 7569 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=1543
Advanced Metal Extractor9:36Middle 50%: 8:42–10:48 · n=1143

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