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

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is watermeloans's (59 OS, 01/09/2026); 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

watermeloans

59.2 OS · 01/09/2026

Open source match ↗

26 received units · includes a constructor
103 metal received · 39943 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

Played most by

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