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

0:03Open with mex and wind, drop Bot Lab immediately.
1:39Push out first "Centurion" as Pond's boost lands.
2:04Send "Rocketeer", "Centurion", "Pawn" mix to contest middle.
by 3:19Add Dragon's Teeth and Sentries to hold the line.
9:41Get Advanced Metal Extractor up as T2 nears.

Phase by phase

TYPICAL OF ITS 1185 GAMES

1
20:03
35:00

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
Bot Lab first
0:00 – 0:03
Order
1. Bot Lab ~0:03done ~0:20, middle half 0:20–0:33
Some games also: mex (37%)
2
Bot Lab to 5:00
0:03 – 5:00
Economy
- 5Mex
- 4Wind
Builders
- 3 Con bot
- 2 Lazarus
Army
- 4 Sentry
- 18 Rocketeer
- 2 Tick
- 1 Centurion
Other
- 1 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 · 30 steps
1. 0:27Wind
2. 0:27Lazarus
3. 0:37Tick
4. 0:38Wind
5. 0:42Pawn ×2
6. 0:53Lazarus
7. 1:01Pawn ×2
8. 1:11Lazarus
9. 1:18Pawn ×2
10. 1:27Con botfor Pond
11. 1:36Con bot
12. 1:46Centurion
13. 1:49Mexfor Pond
14. 1:56Mex
15. 1:56Rocketeer ×4
16. 2:28Mex
17. 2:40Rocketeer
18. 3:04Radar Towerfor Pond
19. 3:31Con bot
20. 3:38Pawn ×2
21. 3:47Con bot
22. 4:00Centurion
23. 4:05Mexfor Pond
24. 4:14Rocketeer ×3
25. 4:27Sentry
26. 4:33Rocketeer
27. 4:35Con turret
28. 4:41Sentry
29. 4:43Rocketeer
30. 4:57Wind
3
5:00 to 10:00
5:00 – 10:00
Economy
- 1Mex
- 17Wind
Builders
- 2 Con turret
- 2 Lazarus
- 1 Con bot
Army
- 1 Sentry
- 8 Rocketeer
- 1 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 · 108 steps
1. 5:01Wind
2. 5:02Rocketeer
3. 5:12Beamer
4. 5:14Con turret
5. 5:16Bot Labdone 5:28
6. 5:34Con bot ×3
7. 6:08Dragon's Teeth ×8
8. 6:26Rocketeer
9. 6:31Dragon's Teeth
10. 6:31Rocketeer
11. 6:33Dragon's Teeth ×3
12. 6:41Rocketeer
13. 6:42Dragon's Teeth ×4
14. 6:48Beamer
15. 6:49Rocketeer
16. 6:54Beamerfor Pond
17. 6:59Rocketeer
18. 7:01Dragon's Teeth ×6
19. 7:08Rocketeer
20. 7:09Dragon's Teeth
21. 7:13Rocketeer
22. 7:16Gauntletdone 8:28
23. 7:19Rocketeer
24. 7:22Dragon's Teeth ×4
25. 7:29Rocketeer
26. 7:30Dragon's Teeth ×2
27. 7:35Rocketeer
28. 7:47Dragon's Teeth
29. 7:49Rocketeer
30. 7:49Dragon's Teeth
31. 8:20Pawnfor Pond
32. 8:29Dragon's Teeth ×5
33. 8:37Pawnfor Pond
34. 8:49Pawn
35. 8:54Con bot ×3for Pond
36. 9:20Crocodile
37. 9:24Con ship
38. 9:28Con turret
39. 9:29Wind
40. 9:38Con ship
41. 9:40Sweeper
42. 9:41T2 mexdone 10:12 · typical 9:37
43. 9:58Naval Metal Storage
44. 10:12T2 mex
45. 10:16Con ship
46. 10:16Con turret
47. 10:33T2 mex
48. 10:34Con turret
49. 10:53Converter
50. 10:59Advanced Construction Sub
51. 11:02Converter
52. 11:04T2 mex
53. 11:11Converter ×2
54. 11:23Radar jammer ship
55. 11:30Converter
56. 11:30Naval Advanced Metal Extractordone 12:00
57. 11:36Battleshipdone 12:58
58. 11:39Converter
59. 11:43Aircraft Plantdone 12:09
60. 11:47Converter ×2
61. 12:01T2 mex
62. 12:09Naval Advanced Metal Extractor
63. 12:09Converter
64. 12:09Light transport
65. 12:18T2 mex
66. 12:20Converter ×3
67. 12:45Light transport ×4
68. 13:11Naval Advanced Metal Extractor
69. 13:12Advanced Geothermal Powerplantnot finished by 15:00
70. 13:12Light transport
71. 13:21Dragon's Teeth
72. 13:22Naval Construction Turret
73. 13:23Dragon's Teeth ×2
74. 13:27Naval Construction Turret
75. 13:28Dragon's Teeth ×2
76. 13:32Naval Construction Turret
77. 13:33Dragon's Teeth
78. 13:35Cruiserdone 14:26
79. 13:36Dragon's Teeth ×3
80. 13:43T2 mex
81. 13:43Dragon's Teeth ×2
82. 13:50Tidal
83. 13:52Dragon's Teeth ×3
84. 14:01Tidal
85. 14:02Dragon's Teeth
86. 14:05Chainsaw
87. 14:06Dragon's Teeth ×2
88. 14:11Tidal
89. 14:13Dragon's Teeth ×2
90. 14:19Tidal
91. 14:20Dragon's Teeth
92. 14:21Shipyarddone 14:44
93. 14:23Dragon's Teeth
94. 14:25Tidal
95. 14:27Dragon's Teeth
96. 14:28Cruiser
97. 14:31Dragon's Teeth
98. 14:32Tidal
99. 14:33Dragon's Teeth
100. 14:34Tidal
101. 14:37Dragon's Teeth ×3
102. 14:45Tidal ×2
103. 14:47Dragon's Teeth
104. 14:48Tidal
105. 14:51Dragon's Teeth
106. 14:53Tidal
107. 14:55Dragon's Teeth ×2
108. 14:57Tidal ×2

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Immort's (56 OS, 23/09/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

Nothing regular.

You get

4 Tidal from Pondfirst at 0:10 · in 69% of games
1 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

By	Metal produced: This build	Enemy metal destroyed: This build	Own metal lost: This build
1:00	226	0	0
2:00	889	0	0
3:00	2056	172	106
4:00	3161	660	486
5:00	4236	1413	1020
6:00	5430	2327	1785
7:00	6661	3179	2732
8:00	7910	4035	3631
9:00	9298	4816	4516
10:00	10688	5426	5336
11:00	12241	5898	6080
12:00	14024	6517	6842
13:00	16042	7013	7523
14:00	17969	7680	8336
15:00	20297	8302	9228

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

Immort

56.1 OS · 23/09/2026

Open source match ↗

108 received units · includes a constructor
248 metal received · 39620 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

Played most by

_X_252games of this build PlatinumBlonde166games of this build Xad109games of this build Immort62games of this build watermeloans58games of this build

Supporting games

Pick a game to read and play it above.

Xad25/09/2026 · 46 OS↗Immort25/09/2026 · 55 OS↗Xad25/09/2026 · 46 OS↗Boozha25/09/2026 · 36 OS↗PlatinumBlonde25/09/2026 · 59 OS↗PlatinumBlonde25/09/2026 · 59 OS↗Boozha25/09/2026 · 36 OS↗Espera25/09/2026 · 38 OS↗Immort23/09/2026 · 56 OS↗

32 more of 1403, the most recent

Supreme Isthmus v2.1
Beyond All Reason test-31383-33cc827
Naval balance tweaks off

Standard suicide front

Phase by phase

Bot Lab first

Bot Lab to 5:00

5:00 to 10:00

Team trades

You hand over

You get

How it plays out

Metal produced

Enemy metal destroyed

Own metal lost

Immort

Typical milestones

Played most by

Supporting games