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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 · 36 steps
    1. TickTick
    2. Mex
    3. TickTick
    4. Mex
    5. Construction BotCon bot
    6. Wind ×2
    7. Mex
    8. Construction BotCon bot
    9. CenturionCenturion
    10. Mex
    11. LazarusLazarus
    12. Construction BotCon bot
    13. Mex
    14. RocketeerRocketeer
    15. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    16. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    17. SentrySentry
    18. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    19. SentrySentry
    20. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    21. BeamerBeamer
    22. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    23. BeamerBeamer
    24. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    25. SentrySentry
    26. RocketeerRocketeer
    27. Construction BotCon bot
    28. RocketeerRocketeer ×6
    29. SentrySentry
    30. RocketeerRocketeer
    31. Construction BotCon bot
    32. BeamerBeamer
    33. Wind
    34. Construction BotCon bot
    35. Wind
    36. BeamerBeamer
  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 · 216 steps
    1. RocketeerRocketeer
    2. Wind ×2
    3. BeamerBeamer
    4. Wind
    5. RocketeerRocketeer
    6. Wind
    7. Solar
    8. GauntletGauntletdone 6:22
    9. Wind ×2
    10. RocketeerRocketeer
    11. Wind ×2
    12. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    13. RocketeerRocketeer
    14. Wind ×2
    15. RocketeerRocketeer
    16. Wind ×4
    17. RocketeerRocketeer
    18. Construction BotCon bot
    19. Con turret
    20. Wind ×2
    21. Energy storage
    22. Wind
    23. Construction BotCon bot
    24. GauntletGauntlet
    25. Wind
    26. Mex
    27. Energy storage
    28. Construction BotCon bot
    29. Wind
    30. SentrySentry ×2
    31. Wind ×3
    32. Converter
    33. Wind ×2
    34. Converter
    35. BeamerBeamer
    36. Wind ×2
    37. Converter
    38. Con turret
    39. Wind ×2
    40. Converter
    41. Wind ×2
    42. Converter
    43. Wind ×2
    44. Con turret
    45. Converter
    46. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    47. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    48. Wind
    49. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:29 · typical 9:37
    50. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    51. Wind
    52. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×4
    53. Wind
    54. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    55. Wind
    56. Sneaky PeteSneaky Pete
    57. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    58. Wind ×4
    59. TickTick
    60. Wind ×3
    61. TickTick
    62. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    63. Wind
    64. TickTick
    65. Wind ×5
    66. TickTick
    67. Wind ×2
    68. TickTick
    69. Wind ×4
    70. TickTick
    71. Wind ×6
    72. TickTick
    73. Wind
    74. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    75. Wind
    76. TickTick
    77. Wind ×8
    78. Sneaky PeteSneaky Pete
    79. Wind ×2
    80. TickTick
    81. Wind
    82. TickTick
    83. Wind ×3
    84. TickTick ×2
    85. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    86. Wind ×3
    87. TickTick
    88. Converter
    89. Wind
    90. Converter
    91. TickTick
    92. Wind ×3
    93. TickTick
    94. Converter
    95. Wind ×2
    96. TickTick
    97. Converter
    98. Wind
    99. TickTick
    100. Converter
    101. Wind ×3
    102. TickTick
    103. Converter
    104. Wind
    105. TickTick
    106. Wind ×2
    107. Converter
    108. TickTick
    109. Wind
    110. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    111. Converter
    112. TickTick
    113. Wind ×3
    114. TickTick ×2
    115. Wind ×3
    116. Advanced Bot LabAdvanced Bot Labdone 12:29
    117. TickTick
    118. Converter
    119. Wind ×3
    120. TickTick
    121. Wind
    122. TickTick
    123. Wind ×3
    124. TickTick ×2
    125. Converter
    126. Wind ×3
    127. PlatypusPlatypus
    128. TickTick
    129. Converter
    130. Wind
    131. PlatypusPlatypus
    132. TickTick
    133. Wind ×2
    134. PlatypusPlatypus
    135. TickTick
    136. Con turret
    137. Wind ×3
    138. PlatypusPlatypus
    139. TickTick
    140. Wind
    141. Con turret
    142. TickTick
    143. PlatypusPlatypus
    144. Wind ×3
    145. TickTick
    146. Con turret
    147. PlatypusPlatypus
    148. TickTick
    149. Wind ×3
    150. Con turret
    151. TickTick
    152. PlatypusPlatypus
    153. Wind
    154. TickTick
    155. Wind
    156. PlatypusPlatypus
    157. Wind ×2
    158. TickTick
    159. TumbleweedRolling bomb
    160. Wind
    161. TickTick
    162. PlatypusPlatypus
    163. Wind ×2
    164. Converter
    165. TumbleweedRolling bomb
    166. TickTick
    167. PlatypusPlatypus
    168. Wind ×3
    169. Converter
    170. TickTick
    171. TumbleweedRolling bomb
    172. TickTick
    173. Wind
    174. PlatypusPlatypus
    175. Converter
    176. Wind ×2
    177. TumbleweedRolling bomb
    178. TickTick
    179. Converter
    180. Wind
    181. PlatypusPlatypus
    182. TickTick
    183. Wind ×2
    184. TumbleweedRolling bomb
    185. Converter
    186. Wind
    187. TickTick
    188. PlatypusPlatypus
    189. Converter
    190. TumbleweedRolling bomb
    191. TickTick
    192. Wind ×3
    193. Converter
    194. PlatypusPlatypus
    195. Con turret
    196. TickTick
    197. Wind
    198. Con turret
    199. Wind ×2
    200. TickTick
    201. Converter
    202. TumbleweedRolling bomb
    203. Wind
    204. PlatypusPlatypus
    205. TickTick
    206. Wind
    207. Converter
    208. Wind
    209. Con turret
    210. Hardened Metal Storage
    211. TickTick
    212. Wind
    213. Converter
    214. TickTick
    215. Wind ×2
    216. TickTick

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is PlatinumBlonde's (59 OS, 24/09/2026); 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

PlatinumBlonde

59.4 OS · 24/09/2026

Open source match ↗

8 received units · includes a constructor
71 metal received · 30138 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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