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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 · 42 steps
    1. TickTick
    2. Mex
    3. TickTick
    4. Mex
    5. Construction BotCon bot
    6. Wind ×2
    7. Construction BotCon bot
    8. Mex
    9. CenturionCenturion
    10. Mex
    11. LazarusLazarus
    12. Construction BotCon bot
    13. Mex
    14. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    15. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    16. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    17. SentrySentry
    18. Construction BotCon bot
    19. SentrySentry
    20. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    21. Wind
    22. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    23. BeamerBeamer
    24. Wind
    25. RocketeerRocketeer
    26. Con turret
    27. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    28. Wind
    29. RocketeerRocketeer
    30. PawnPawn
    31. OverwatchOverwatch
    32. Wind
    33. PawnPawn ×4
    34. Wind
    35. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    36. PawnPawn ×3
    37. Wind
    38. PawnPawn
    39. Energy storage
    40. PawnPawn ×3
    41. Wind
    42. PawnPawn
  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 · 57 steps
    1. PawnPawn
    2. BeamerBeamer
    3. PawnPawn
    4. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    5. PawnPawn ×2
    6. BeamerBeamer
    7. PawnPawn ×3
    8. GauntletGauntletdone 6:55
    9. PawnPawn
    10. LazarusLazarus
    11. PawnPawn
    12. Con turret
    13. PawnPawn ×4
    14. Mex
    15. PawnPawn ×5
    16. Wind
    17. PawnPawn
    18. Wind ×2
    19. PawnPawn ×2
    20. Wind
    21. SentrySentry
    22. Wind
    23. PawnPawn
    24. Bot LabBot Labdone 7:31
    25. PawnPawn
    26. SentrySentry
    27. PawnPawn
    28. Wind
    29. PawnPawn
    30. Construction BotCon bot
    31. Wind ×2
    32. PawnPawn
    33. Wind ×2
    34. LazarusLazarus
    35. Wind ×2
    36. PawnPawn
    37. CenturionCenturion
    38. Wind ×2
    39. LazarusLazarus
    40. CenturionCenturion
    41. Wind ×2
    42. Advanced Bot LabAdvanced Bot Labdone 9:23
    43. Wind ×13
    44. GunslingerGunslingerdone 9:52
    45. Wind ×2
    46. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 11:00 · typical 9:36
    47. Wind ×2
    48. Advanced Construction BotT2 con bot
    49. ButlerButler ×3
    50. Wind
    51. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    52. Wind ×5
    53. HoundHound
    54. Wind ×4
    55. HoundHound
    56. Wind ×2
    57. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is PlatinumBlonde's (58 OS, 23/09/2026); 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

PlatinumBlonde

58.3 OS · 23/09/2026

Open source match ↗

5 received units · includes a constructor
1026 metal received · 45826 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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