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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 · 1244 distinct matches · 126 players · 71% of Armada Suicide front games · team won 60% of 1476 · 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 1244 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
    • Rocketeer18 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 · 37 steps
    1. Mex
    2. LazarusLazarus
    3. Construction BotCon bot
    4. SentrySentry
    5. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    6. Mex ×2
    7. SentrySentry
    8. LazarusLazarus
    9. Construction BotCon bot
    10. LazarusLazarus
    11. Mex ×2
    12. MaceMace ×2
    13. SentrySentry
    14. Wind
    15. SentrySentry
    16. MaceMace
    17. BeamerBeamer
    18. Wind
    19. MaceMace ×2
    20. BeamerBeamer
    21. Wind
    22. SentrySentry
    23. LazarusLazarus
    24. SentrySentry
    25. MaceMace
    26. Wind
    27. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    28. MaceMace
    29. LazarusLazarus
    30. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    31. Con turret
    32. RocketeerRocketeer ×4
    33. Con turret
    34. RocketeerRocketeer
    35. BeamerBeamer
    36. Wind
    37. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
  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 (39%)

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

    The example game in this phase · 120 steps
    1. Wind
    2. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    3. Wind
    4. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    5. Con turret
    6. Wind
    7. RocketeerRocketeer
    8. Wind
    9. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    10. Mex
    11. RocketeerRocketeer
    12. Wind
    13. Energy storage
    14. RocketeerRocketeer
    15. Wind
    16. Advanced Bot LabAdvanced Bot Labdone 7:10
    17. Wind ×2
    18. SentrySentry
    19. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    20. Wind ×2
    21. SentrySentry
    22. Wind
    23. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 8:23 · typical 9:38
    24. Wind
    25. HoundHound
    26. Con turret
    27. Wind
    28. SentrySentry
    29. Wind ×3
    30. SentrySentry
    31. Wind
    32. Converter
    33. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    34. Wind
    35. SentrySentry ×3
    36. Wind
    37. WelderWelder
    38. Wind
    39. HoundHound
    40. Converter
    41. WelderWelder
    42. Wind
    43. HoundHound
    44. Converter
    45. Wind ×2
    46. WelderWelder
    47. Converter
    48. Wind
    49. HoundHound
    50. ButlerButler
    51. Wind
    52. HoundHound
    53. Converter
    54. WelderWelder
    55. Wind
    56. HoundHound
    57. Wind
    58. WelderWelder
    59. Converter
    60. Wind
    61. HoundHound
    62. Wind
    63. Advanced Construction BotT2 con bot
    64. Wind
    65. Converter
    66. Wind
    67. HoundHound
    68. Wind ×2
    69. Converter
    70. WelderWelder
    71. Wind
    72. Mex
    73. Converter
    74. Wind
    75. HoundHound
    76. Wind
    77. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    78. Converter
    79. WelderWelder
    80. Wind
    81. Fortification WallFortification Wall
    82. Wind
    83. Fortification WallFortification Wall ×2
    84. Wind
    85. Fortification WallFortification Wall
    86. Converter
    87. WelderWelder
    88. Fortification WallFortification Wall
    89. Wind
    90. Fortification WallFortification Wall
    91. Wind
    92. Fortification WallFortification Wall ×2
    93. Wind
    94. Fortification WallFortification Wall ×2
    95. Wind
    96. WelderWelder
    97. Wind ×4
    98. Fortification WallFortification Wall
    99. Converter
    100. Wind ×2
    101. Converter
    102. Fortification WallFortification Wall
    103. Wind
    104. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 14:52
    105. Wind ×3
    106. Fortification WallFortification Wall
    107. Wind
    108. Advanced Construction BotT2 con bot
    109. Wind ×3
    110. Fortification WallFortification Wall
    111. Converter
    112. Fortification WallFortification Wall
    113. Converter
    114. Wind ×3
    115. Fortification WallFortification Wall
    116. Wind ×3
    117. WelderWelder
    118. Wind ×3
    119. Converter
    120. Fortification WallFortification Wall

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Erilium's (48 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 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

1476 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0022600
2:0088800
3:002052173106
4:003161658487
5:00424314151020
6:00543323271786
7:00666831762727
8:00791340353627
9:00930148084496
10:001068454295313
11:001224658946034
12:001409665046820
13:001621470167535
14:001807476888398
15:002043282939278
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

Erilium

48.1 OS · 20/09/2026

Open source match ↗

276 received units · includes a constructor
2934 metal received · 82472 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=1470
Advanced Metal Extractor9:38Middle 50%: 8:42–10:48 · n=1084

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