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Standard suicide front

Armada Suicide front build order · Supreme Isthmus

The role's standard play: bot lab first, Rocketeer/Centurion/Pawn based force pushes into the middle to contest and hold it until T2 arrives.

Usually lab first (63%)

#rush #push · 1370 distinct matches · 134 players · 71% of Armada Suicide front games · team won 59% of 1622 · 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 1370 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 (34%)

    By 5:00 in all: 5 mex · 4 wind

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

    5:00 to 10:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor1Mex
    • Wind Turbine16Wind
    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 (46%) · energy storage (46%) · centurion (45%) · Beamer (39%)

    By 10:00 in all: 6 mex · 22 wind · 1 energy storage · 3 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 69 steps
    1. RocketeerRocketeer
    2. SentrySentry
    3. TickTick
    4. RocketeerRocketeer ×5
    5. TickTick
    6. RocketeerRocketeer ×4
    7. Construction BotCon bot
    8. PawnPawn ×12
    9. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    10. Mex
    11. Construction BotCon bot
    12. PawnPawn ×3
    13. Con turret
    14. PawnPawn
    15. Mex
    16. TickTick
    17. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    18. RocketeerRocketeer ×4
    19. Wind
    20. RocketeerRocketeer
    21. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 11:41 · typical 9:37
    22. TickTick
    23. Wind
    24. Mex
    25. PawnPawn ×2
    26. TickTick
    27. Wind
    28. PawnPawn
    29. TickTick
    30. Wind
    31. PawnPawn
    32. Wind
    33. TickTick
    34. PawnPawn
    35. Wind
    36. TickTick
    37. PawnPawn
    38. TickTick
    39. Wind
    40. CenturionCenturion
    41. Wind
    42. CenturionCenturion
    43. Wind
    44. LazarusLazarus
    45. Wind
    46. LazarusLazarus
    47. Wind
    48. CenturionCenturion
    49. Wind
    50. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    51. Wind
    52. CenturionCenturion
    53. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    54. Wind
    55. CenturionCenturion
    56. Wind
    57. CenturionCenturion
    58. Wind
    59. CenturionCenturion
    60. Wind
    61. Fortification WallFortification Wall
    62. Wind
    63. CenturionCenturion
    64. Fortification WallFortification Wall ×6
    65. Con turret
    66. BeamerBeamer
    67. Fortification WallFortification Wall ×3
    68. RattlesnakeRattlesnakenot finished by 15:00
    69. Con turret

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Xad's (40 OS, 04/10/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

Nothing regular.

You get

  • Tidal Generator4 Tidal from Pondfirst at 0:10 · 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

1622 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0022500
2:0088800
3:002046182106
4:003153660497
5:00424214231017
6:00543423021780
7:00667131742707
8:00792440303620
9:00928547894504
10:001067154195322
11:001222558976059
12:001407665136804
13:001614670297522
14:001797976778330
15:002028882939186
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

Xad

40.3 OS · 04/10/2026

Open source match ↗

7 received units · includes a constructor
98 metal received · 20190 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=1615
Advanced Metal Extractor9:37Middle 50%: 8:42–10:48 · n=1197

Played most by

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Standard suicide front · Armada Suicide front build order · BAR Build Atlas