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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 · 1291 distinct matches · 127 players · 71% of Armada Suicide front games · team won 59% of 1529 · 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 1291 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 · 37 steps
    1. Construction BotCon bot
    2. Mex ×2
    3. SentrySentry
    4. Construction BotCon bot
    5. LazarusLazarus
    6. Mex
    7. CenturionCenturion
    8. SentrySentry
    9. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    10. CenturionCenturion
    11. Mex
    12. Construction BotCon bot
    13. Mex
    14. SentrySentry
    15. Mex
    16. RocketeerRocketeer
    17. SentrySentry
    18. RocketeerRocketeer
    19. SentrySentry
    20. RocketeerRocketeer
    21. Wind
    22. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    23. Wind
    24. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    25. TickTick
    26. Wind
    27. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    28. Wind
    29. RocketeerRocketeer
    30. SentrySentry
    31. RocketeerRocketeer
    32. Wind
    33. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    34. Wind
    35. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    36. Con turret
    37. 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 · 135 steps
    1. RocketeerRocketeer
    2. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    3. RocketeerRocketeer
    4. PawnPawn ×6
    5. Energy storage
    6. PawnPawn ×4
    7. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 6:58 · typical 9:36
    8. PawnPawn ×2
    9. NettleNettle
    10. PawnPawn ×2
    11. Con turret
    12. PawnPawn ×5
    13. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    14. LazarusLazarus
    15. PawnPawn
    16. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    17. Advanced solar
    18. Wind ×4
    19. SentrySentry
    20. Wind
    21. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    22. SentrySentry
    23. Wind ×2
    24. Advanced solar
    25. Wind ×3
    26. Converter
    27. Wind
    28. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    29. Wind
    30. Con turret
    31. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    32. Converter
    33. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    34. Wind
    35. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    36. Wind
    37. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    38. Wind
    39. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    40. Wind
    41. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    42. Wind
    43. Con turret
    44. Wind ×4
    45. Pit BullPit Bull
    46. Wind ×3
    47. Advanced solar
    48. Wind ×4
    49. Advanced solar
    50. Wind ×2
    51. Pit BullPit Bull
    52. Wind ×3
    53. Advanced solar
    54. Converter
    55. Wind
    56. Metal storage
    57. Wind
    58. Converter
    59. Wind ×2
    60. Advanced solar
    61. Wind ×2
    62. Bot LabBot Labdone 11:00
    63. Wind ×2
    64. Advanced solar
    65. Wind
    66. LazarusLazarus
    67. Wind ×3
    68. LazarusLazarus
    69. Wind ×3
    70. LazarusLazarus
    71. Wind ×2
    72. LazarusLazarus
    73. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    74. Wind
    75. LazarusLazarus
    76. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    77. Wind
    78. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    79. Wind
    80. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    81. Converter
    82. Wind
    83. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    84. Wind
    85. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    86. Converter
    87. Wind ×2
    88. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    89. Wind ×8
    90. GauntletGauntletnot finished by 15:00
    91. Wind ×8
    92. Con turret
    93. Wind ×3
    94. Converter
    95. Wind
    96. Con turret
    97. Wind
    98. Con turret
    99. Converter
    100. Wind
    101. Con turret
    102. Wind
    103. BeamerBeamer
    104. Wind ×4
    105. BeamerBeamer
    106. Wind ×3
    107. BeamerBeamer
    108. Wind ×5
    109. BeamerBeamer
    110. Sneaky PeteSneaky Pete
    111. Pit BullPit Bull
    112. Wind ×3
    113. Pit BullPit Bull
    114. Wind ×2
    115. BeamerBeamer
    116. Wind ×2
    117. Converter
    118. Pit BullPit Bull
    119. Wind ×2
    120. Converter
    121. Wind ×2
    122. BeamerBeamer
    123. Wind ×4
    124. Bot LabBot Labdone 14:39
    125. Wind ×6
    126. LazarusLazarus
    127. Wind ×4
    128. LazarusLazarus
    129. Wind ×2
    130. LazarusLazarus
    131. Wind
    132. RattlesnakeRattlesnakenot finished by 15:00
    133. Wind
    134. LazarusLazarus
    135. Wind

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is OldSpanker's (49 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 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

1529 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0022600
2:0088800
3:002051180106
4:003161658496
5:00424314131026
6:00543322981789
7:00667031752710
8:00792040313619
9:00931747964495
10:001069954265316
11:001226559036054
12:001411365126830
13:001622270137536
14:001810976968373
15:002046683299249
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

OldSpanker

49.0 OS · 25/09/2026

Open source match ↗

13 received units · includes a constructor
357 metal received · 15432 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=1522
Advanced Metal Extractor9:36Middle 50%: 8:41–10:48 · n=1128

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