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Standard suicide front

Armada Suicide front build order · Supreme Isthmus

The role's baseline: Bot Lab at 0:21 then straight into reclaim-fed T1 bot production to contest the middle and hold until T2 arrives, with an Advanced Metal Extractor around 9:45.

#rush · 2038 distinct matches · 233 players · 72% of Armada Suicide front games · team won 59% of 2418 · Recently observed

HOW TO PLAY IT

Key timing: Bot Lab by 0:20

  1. Open with mex and lab-first to get Bot Lab up by 0:20.
  2. Expand mex and wind while lab pumps units toward middle.
  3. Push Sentry and early Rocketeer, Centurion to contest middle.
  4. Get T2 constructor out once Pond's boost lets you spare metal.
  5. Upgrade mex to Advanced Metal Extractor as you transition off T1 spam.

Phase by phase

TYPICAL OF ITS 2038 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 ~0:24, middle half 0:20–0:33

    Some games also: mex (44%)

  2. 2

    Bot Lab to 5:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor5Mex
    • Wind Turbine4Wind
    Builders
    • Construction Bot3 Con bot
    • Lazarus2 Lazarus
    Army
    • Sentry4 Sentry
    • Rocketeer16 Rocketeer
    • Tick2 Tick
    • Centurion1 Centurion
    Other
    • Radar Tower1 Radar Tower

    Some games also: pawn (38%) · con turret (34%)

    By 5:00 in all: 5 mex · 4 wind

    The example game in this phase · 34 steps
    1. Mex
    2. TickTick
    3. Construction BotCon bot
    4. Wind ×2
    5. Construction BotCon bot
    6. SentrySentry
    7. Mex
    8. Construction BotCon bot
    9. Mex
    10. LazarusLazarus
    11. Mex
    12. Wind
    13. CenturionCenturion
    14. SentrySentry
    15. Energy storage
    16. CenturionCenturion
    17. Mex
    18. SentrySentry
    19. RocketeerRocketeer
    20. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    21. RocketeerRocketeer
    22. Wind
    23. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    24. Wind
    25. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    26. Wind
    27. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    28. LazarusLazarus
    29. Wind
    30. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    31. Wind
    32. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    33. Wind
    34. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
  3. 3

    5:00 to 10:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor1Mex
    • Wind Turbine15Wind
    Builders
    • Construction Turret2 Con turret
    • Lazarus2 Lazarus
    • Construction Bot1 Con bot
    Army
    • Sentry1 Sentry
    • Rocketeer8 Rocketeer

    Some games also: pawn (49%) · Radar Tower (46%) · tick (45%) · centurion (44%) · energy storage (43%) · eat Bot Lab (31%)

    By 10:00 in all: 6 mex · 21 wind · 1 energy storage · 2 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 84 steps
    1. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    2. LazarusLazarus
    3. RocketeerRocketeer ×7
    4. SentrySentry
    5. RocketeerRocketeer
    6. SentrySentry
    7. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    8. LazarusLazarus
    9. Sneaky PeteSneaky Pete
    10. RocketeerRocketeer ×7
    11. Con turret
    12. PawnPawn ×2
    13. Wind
    14. PawnPawn
    15. Wind
    16. PawnPawn ×2
    17. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    18. PawnPawn
    19. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:43 · typical 9:46
    20. Wind
    21. PawnPawn ×7
    22. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    23. PawnPawn ×3
    24. Wind ×2
    25. PawnPawn
    26. Wind
    27. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    28. PawnPawn
    29. Wind ×2
    30. PawnPawn
    31. LazarusLazarus
    32. Wind
    33. LazarusLazarus
    34. Wind ×2
    35. LazarusLazarus
    36. Wind ×2
    37. PawnPawn ×2
    38. Wind
    39. PawnPawn
    40. Wind ×2
    41. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    42. PawnPawn
    43. Con turret
    44. PawnPawn
    45. Wind
    46. PawnPawn
    47. Con turret
    48. PawnPawn
    49. Wind
    50. Con turret
    51. PawnPawn
    52. Bot LabBot Labdone 12:48
    53. PawnPawn ×2
    54. Con turret
    55. PawnPawn ×7
    56. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    57. PawnPawn
    58. Con turret
    59. PawnPawn ×11
    60. Con turret
    61. PawnPawn ×2
    62. Con turret
    63. PawnPawn
    64. Con turret
    65. PawnPawn ×5
    66. Wind
    67. PawnPawn ×2
    68. Wind
    69. PawnPawn
    70. Wind
    71. PawnPawn
    72. Wind
    73. PawnPawn
    74. Wind
    75. PawnPawn
    76. Wind ×2
    77. PawnPawn ×2
    78. Wind ×2
    79. PawnPawn ×2
    80. Wind
    81. PawnPawn
    82. Wind
    83. PawnPawn ×2
    84. Wind

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is TrapCaT's (41 OS, 14/10/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

Nothing regular.

You get

  • Tidal Generator4 Tidal from Pondfirst at 0:11 · in 68% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Geo or Techfirst at 7:41 · in 57% of games

How it plays out

Typical game of this build, running totals by minute

Metal produced

010k20k
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

2418 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0023000
2:0088700
3:002009184130
4:003109644501
5:0041821350999
6:00534721831707
7:00653930542589
8:00775539383499
9:00904046924371
10:001041053125156
11:001188858565965
12:001357864016685
13:001539668707455
14:001730275038213
15:001925781138994
WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY

Standard Suicide front play wins a bit over half its games while taking the heaviest own losses of any role by 15:00.

  • + Produces 20142 metal by 15:00, highest of the front roles.
  • + First kill by 2:01 in all games, fastest contest of middle.
  • − Own metal lost hits 9178 by 15:00, more than enemy metal destroyed.
  • − Only 34% Rocketeer share shows army spread thin across many bot types.
THE EXAMPLE YOU ARE READING

TrapCaT

41.3 OS · 14/10/2026

Open source match ↗

4 received units · includes a constructor
101 metal received · 33329 energy received

Allied construction assistance is unknown. Timings are observations, not a promise of solo reproducibility.

Typical milestones

Bot Lab0:24Middle 50%: 0:20–0:33 · n=2410
Advanced Metal Extractor9:46Middle 50%: 8:50–10:58 · n=1749

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