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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 · 34 steps
    1. TickTick
    2. Mex
    3. CenturionCenturion
    4. Mex
    5. SentrySentry
    6. Shark's TeethShark's Teeth
    7. TickTick
    8. LazarusLazarus
    9. Mex
    10. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    11. Construction BotCon bot
    12. Mex
    13. Construction BotCon bot
    14. RocketeerRocketeer
    15. SentrySentry
    16. RocketeerRocketeer ×4
    17. CenturionCenturion
    18. SentrySentry ×2
    19. RocketeerRocketeer
    20. Con turret
    21. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    22. Energy storage
    23. RocketeerRocketeer
    24. SentrySentry
    25. RocketeerRocketeer
    26. Wind
    27. LazarusLazarus
    28. Wind
    29. CenturionCenturion
    30. Wind
    31. RocketeerRocketeer
    32. Wind
    33. RocketeerRocketeer
    34. Wind
  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 · 112 steps
    1. RocketeerRocketeer
    2. GauntletGauntletdone 6:08
    3. Wind
    4. LazarusLazarus
    5. Wind
    6. CenturionCenturion
    7. Wind ×2
    8. RocketeerRocketeer
    9. Wind
    10. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    11. LazarusLazarus
    12. CenturionCenturion
    13. RocketeerRocketeer
    14. BeamerBeamer
    15. RocketeerRocketeer
    16. BeamerBeamer
    17. RocketeerRocketeer
    18. LazarusLazarus
    19. CenturionCenturion
    20. Wind
    21. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    22. Wind
    23. RocketeerRocketeer
    24. LazarusLazarus
    25. Con turret
    26. CenturionCenturion
    27. Wind
    28. RocketeerRocketeer
    29. TickTick
    30. Con turret
    31. TickTick ×2
    32. Wind
    33. TickTick ×6
    34. Wind
    35. TickTick ×4
    36. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:42 · typical 9:38
    37. TickTick ×2
    38. Wind
    39. TickTick ×2
    40. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×3
    41. TickTick
    42. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    43. Wind
    44. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×5
    45. TickTick
    46. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×3
    47. TickTick
    48. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    49. TickTick
    50. Sneaky PeteSneaky Pete
    51. Wind
    52. TickTick ×2
    53. Wind
    54. TickTick ×2
    55. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    56. TickTick
    57. Wind
    58. TickTick ×3
    59. Wind
    60. TickTick ×6
    61. Wind
    62. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    63. TickTick ×3
    64. ChainsawChainsaw
    65. TickTick ×4
    66. Wind
    67. TickTick ×7
    68. Wind
    69. TickTick ×7
    70. Wind
    71. TickTick
    72. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    73. Wind
    74. Construction BotCon bot
    75. Con turret
    76. Construction BotCon bot
    77. Wind
    78. TickTick ×2
    79. Con turret
    80. TickTick ×2
    81. Con turret
    82. Wind
    83. TickTick ×2
    84. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    85. Con turret
    86. TickTick ×4
    87. Con turret
    88. TickTick ×2
    89. Wind
    90. TickTick ×2
    91. Con turret
    92. TickTick ×4
    93. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 14:05
    94. TickTick ×4
    95. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 14:13
    96. Wind
    97. TickTick
    98. LazarusLazarus
    99. BlitzBlitz ×4
    100. LazarusLazarus
    101. BlitzBlitz ×4
    102. LazarusLazarus
    103. BlitzBlitz
    104. Wind
    105. Pit BullPit Bull
    106. BlitzBlitz ×3
    107. TickTick
    108. BlitzBlitz
    109. TickTick ×2
    110. BlitzBlitz
    111. Wind
    112. TickTick ×3

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Deathkebab's (36 OS, 27/08/2026); 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

Deathkebab

35.5 OS · 27/08/2026

Open source match ↗

25 received units · includes a constructor
41 metal received · 10289 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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