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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 · 1289 distinct matches · 127 players · 71% of Armada Suicide front games · team won 59% of 1527 · 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 1289 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 · 34 steps
    1. TickTick ×3
    2. Construction BotCon bot
    3. LazarusLazarus
    4. SentrySentry
    5. Mex
    6. Construction BotCon bot
    7. Mex
    8. Construction BotCon bot
    9. CenturionCenturion
    10. Mex
    11. RocketeerRocketeer
    12. SentrySentryfor Geo
    13. RocketeerRocketeer
    14. Mex
    15. SentrySentryfor Geo
    16. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    17. Wind
    18. Mex
    19. RocketeerRocketeer
    20. BeamerBeamerfor Geo
    21. LazarusLazarus
    22. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    23. Wind
    24. CenturionCenturion
    25. SentrySentry
    26. BeamerBeamer
    27. RocketeerRocketeer
    28. BeamerBeamerfor Geo
    29. RocketeerRocketeer ×5
    30. BeamerBeamerfor Geo
    31. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    32. Con turret
    33. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    34. Con turret
  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 · 128 steps
    1. RocketeerRocketeer
    2. CenturionCenturion
    3. BeamerBeamer
    4. LazarusLazarus ×3
    5. BeamerBeamer
    6. Energy storage
    7. LazarusLazarus
    8. RocketeerRocketeer
    9. PawnPawn
    10. Wind
    11. PawnPawn
    12. Wind
    13. BeamerBeamer
    14. PawnPawn
    15. Wind
    16. PawnPawn
    17. Wind ×2
    18. PawnPawn
    19. Wind
    20. Construction BotCon bot
    21. Wind
    22. BeamerBeamer
    23. RocketeerRocketeer
    24. Wind
    25. Energy storage
    26. RocketeerRocketeer
    27. Wind
    28. Con turret
    29. Metal storage
    30. RocketeerRocketeer
    31. Wind
    32. CenturionCenturion
    33. Con turret
    34. CenturionCenturion
    35. Sneaky PeteSneaky Pete
    36. CenturionCenturion
    37. Con turret
    38. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:02 · typical 9:36
    39. CenturionCenturion
    40. BeamerBeamer
    41. GauntletGauntletnot finished by 15:00
    42. Mex
    43. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    44. Mex
    45. LazarusLazarus
    46. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    47. LazarusLazarus ×3
    48. Mex
    49. LazarusLazarus
    50. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    51. LazarusLazarus
    52. PawnPawn ×12
    53. Con turret
    54. PawnPawn ×9
    55. Con turret
    56. PawnPawn
    57. Construction BotCon bot
    58. PawnPawn ×12
    59. Wind
    60. PawnPawn ×2
    61. Wind
    62. PawnPawn
    63. Con turret
    64. PawnPawn
    65. Sneaky PeteSneaky Pete
    66. PawnPawn ×3
    67. Wind
    68. PawnPawn ×3
    69. Wind
    70. PawnPawn
    71. Wind ×2
    72. PawnPawn ×2
    73. Wind ×2
    74. PawnPawn ×2
    75. Wind
    76. Bot LabBot Labdone 13:51
    77. PawnPawn
    78. Wind
    79. PawnPawn
    80. Wind ×2
    81. PawnPawn ×2
    82. Wind ×2
    83. PawnPawn ×2
    84. Wind
    85. PawnPawn
    86. Con turret
    87. Wind
    88. PawnPawn ×2
    89. Wind ×2
    90. PawnPawn
    91. Wind
    92. PawnPawn ×2
    93. Wind
    94. PawnPawn
    95. Wind
    96. PawnPawn
    97. Wind
    98. Con turret
    99. CenturionCenturion
    100. PawnPawn ×2
    101. Wind ×2
    102. PawnPawn ×2
    103. Wind ×2
    104. PawnPawn
    105. Con turret
    106. CenturionCenturion
    107. PawnPawn
    108. Wind
    109. PawnPawn
    110. Wind
    111. PawnPawn
    112. Wind
    113. PawnPawn
    114. Wind
    115. PawnPawn
    116. CenturionCenturion
    117. Wind
    118. PawnPawn
    119. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    120. CenturionCenturion
    121. PawnPawn
    122. Wind ×2
    123. PawnPawn ×2
    124. Con turret
    125. Wind ×2
    126. PawnPawn
    127. CenturionCenturion
    128. PawnPawn

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is EpicTyrannus's (43 OS, 25/09/2026); 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 7:31 · 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

1527 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0022600
2:0088800
3:002050179106
4:003161658496
5:00424314121026
6:00543322971789
7:00667031752710
8:00792040293619
9:00931747894495
10:001069754225316
11:001226558996054
12:001411464906830
13:001623070097536
14:001811476808373
15:002046683169249
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

EpicTyrannus

42.9 OS · 25/09/2026

Open source match ↗

5 received units · includes a constructor
425 metal received · 63988 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=1520
Advanced Metal Extractor9:36Middle 50%: 8:41–10:48 · n=1126

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