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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

  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 1185 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 (37%)

  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 (31%)

    By 5:00 in all: 5 mex · 5 wind

    The example game in this phase · 36 steps
    1. Mex
    2. TickTick
    3. Mex
    4. TickTick
    5. Wind
    6. Construction BotCon bot
    7. Wind
    8. Construction BotCon bot
    9. Mex
    10. CenturionCenturion
    11. Mex
    12. LazarusLazarus
    13. Construction BotCon bot
    14. RocketeerRocketeer
    15. SentrySentry
    16. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    17. Mex
    18. RocketeerRocketeer
    19. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    20. SentrySentry
    21. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    22. Wind
    23. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    24. Wind
    25. RocketeerRocketeer
    26. SentrySentry
    27. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    28. SentrySentry
    29. Wind
    30. RocketeerRocketeer
    31. CenturionCenturion
    32. RocketeerRocketeer
    33. Wind
    34. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    35. CenturionCenturion
    36. RocketeerRocketeer ×7
  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 (38%)

    By 10:00 in all: 6 mex · 23 wind · 1 energy storage · 3 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 118 steps
    1. RocketeerRocketeer
    2. BeamerBeamer
    3. RocketeerRocketeer
    4. Con turret
    5. TickTick
    6. Energy storage
    7. TickTick ×2
    8. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 7:05
    9. Sneaky PeteSneaky Pete
    10. TickTick ×2
    11. Wind
    12. TickTick ×2
    13. Wind
    14. BeamerBeamer
    15. TickTick ×2
    16. Wind
    17. TickTick
    18. Wind
    19. TickTick ×2
    20. Wind
    21. TickTick ×2
    22. Wind
    23. BeamerBeamer
    24. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    25. TickTick
    26. Wind
    27. TickTick ×2
    28. Wind
    29. TickTick ×2
    30. Wind
    31. TickTick ×2
    32. Wind
    33. TickTick
    34. Wind ×3
    35. TickTick
    36. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    37. TickTick
    38. Wind
    39. TickTick ×2
    40. BeamerBeamer
    41. Wind
    42. TickTick ×2
    43. Wind
    44. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    45. TickTick ×2
    46. SentrySentry
    47. Wind
    48. CenturionCenturion
    49. Wind
    50. SentrySentry
    51. Wind
    52. SentrySentry
    53. Construction BotCon bot
    54. Wind ×2
    55. ScorpionScorpion
    56. Construction BotCon bot
    57. Wind ×2
    58. Construction BotCon bot
    59. Wind
    60. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    61. CenturionCenturion
    62. Con turret
    63. CenturionCenturion
    64. Wind
    65. Con turret
    66. SentrySentry
    67. CenturionCenturion
    68. Wind
    69. CenturionCenturion
    70. Con turret
    71. Wind
    72. PersecutorPersecutornot finished by 15:00
    73. Wind ×4
    74. SentrySentry ×2
    75. Wind ×2
    76. Con turret
    77. Wind
    78. Con turret
    79. Wind
    80. Con turret
    81. Wind
    82. Con turret
    83. Bot LabBot Labdone 13:19
    84. Wind
    85. Bot LabBot Labdone 13:34
    86. GruntGrunt
    87. Wind
    88. GruntGrunt
    89. Wind
    90. GruntGrunt ×5
    91. Wind
    92. GruntGrunt ×5
    93. Wind
    94. GruntGrunt ×2
    95. SentrySentry
    96. GruntGrunt ×2
    97. PersecutorPersecutor
    98. GruntGrunt
    99. Wind
    100. GruntGrunt ×2
    101. Wind
    102. GraverobberGraverobber
    103. GruntGrunt
    104. Wind
    105. GruntGrunt
    106. GraverobberGraverobber
    107. GruntGrunt
    108. GraverobberGraverobber
    109. GruntGrunt
    110. Wind
    111. GraverobberGraverobber
    112. GruntGrunt
    113. GraverobberGraverobber
    114. GruntGrunt
    115. GraverobberGraverobber
    116. GruntGrunt
    117. Wind
    118. GruntGrunt ×2

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is PlatinumBlonde's (59 OS, 25/09/2026); 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

1411 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0022600
2:0088900
3:002056172106
4:003161660486
5:00423614131020
6:00543023271785
7:00666131792732
8:00791040353631
9:00929848164516
10:001068854265336
11:001224158986080
12:001402465176842
13:001604270137523
14:001796976808336
15:002029783029228
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

59.1 OS · 25/09/2026

Open source match ↗

10 received units · includes a constructor
26 metal received · 100199 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

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