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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 · 38 steps
    1. TickTick
    2. Mex
    3. TickTick
    4. Wind
    5. Construction BotCon bot
    6. Wind
    7. Construction BotCon bot
    8. SentrySentry
    9. LazarusLazarus
    10. Mex
    11. CenturionCenturion
    12. Construction BotCon bot
    13. Mex
    14. PawnPawn
    15. SentrySentry
    16. PawnPawn
    17. SentrySentry
    18. Construction BotCon bot
    19. RocketeerRocketeer
    20. SentrySentry
    21. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    22. Mex
    23. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    24. SentrySentry
    25. Mex
    26. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    27. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×3
    28. Mex
    29. BeamerBeamer
    30. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    31. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    32. SentrySentry
    33. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    34. Construction BotCon bot
    35. SentrySentry ×2
    36. RocketeerRocketeer
    37. GauntletGauntletnot finished by 15:00
    38. RocketeerRocketeer
  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 · 85 steps
    1. RocketeerRocketeer
    2. SentrySentry
    3. RocketeerRocketeer
    4. GauntletGauntlet
    5. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    6. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    7. RocketeerRocketeer
    8. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 8:15 · typical 9:36
    9. Mex
    10. SentrySentry
    11. Wind
    12. Mex
    13. Wind
    14. Con turret
    15. SentrySentry
    16. Wind
    17. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    18. Wind
    19. BeamerBeamer ×2
    20. Wind
    21. BeamerBeamer
    22. Wind
    23. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    24. GauntletGauntlet
    25. SentrySentry
    26. Bot LabBot Labdone 11:07
    27. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×8
    28. Mex
    29. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    30. Wind
    31. PawnPawn
    32. LazarusLazarus
    33. Wind
    34. LazarusLazarus
    35. Wind
    36. LazarusLazarus
    37. Wind
    38. LazarusLazarus
    39. PawnPawn
    40. Wind
    41. PawnPawn ×2
    42. Wind
    43. PawnPawn ×3
    44. Wind
    45. PawnPawn
    46. StoutStout
    47. PawnPawn
    48. Wind
    49. PawnPawn
    50. Con turret
    51. CenturionCenturion
    52. PawnPawn
    53. Wind
    54. PawnPawn ×2
    55. Wind
    56. CenturionCenturion
    57. PawnPawn ×2
    58. Wind
    59. PawnPawn
    60. Wind
    61. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    62. Mex
    63. PawnPawn
    64. Wind ×2
    65. PawnPawn
    66. Wind ×3
    67. PawnPawn
    68. Wind ×2
    69. PawnPawn
    70. Wind
    71. PawnPawn
    72. Wind ×2
    73. PawnPawn
    74. Wind ×3
    75. Energy storage
    76. PawnPawn
    77. Wind
    78. PawnPawn
    79. Wind
    80. PawnPawn
    81. Wind
    82. PawnPawn
    83. Wind
    84. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    85. Wind ×3

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is [BS]Hellzie's (40 OS, 27/09/2026); 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

[BS]Hellzie

39.8 OS · 27/09/2026

Open source match ↗

26 received units · includes a constructor
298 metal received · 6579 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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