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Standard suicide front

Armada Suicide front build order · Supreme Isthmus

The role's baseline: Bot Lab at 0:21 then straight into reclaim-fed T1 bot production to contest the middle and hold until T2 arrives, with an Advanced Metal Extractor around 9:45.

#rush · 2020 distinct matches · 232 players · 71% of Armada Suicide front games · team won 59% of 2395 · Recently observed

HOW TO PLAY IT

Key timing: Bot Lab by 0:20

  1. Open with mex and lab-first to get Bot Lab up by 0:20.
  2. Expand mex and wind while lab pumps units toward middle.
  3. Push Sentry and early Rocketeer, Centurion to contest middle.
  4. Get T2 constructor out once Pond's boost lets you spare metal.
  5. Upgrade mex to Advanced Metal Extractor as you transition off T1 spam.

Phase by phase

TYPICAL OF ITS 2020 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 ~0:21, middle half 0:20–0:33

    Some games also: mex (44%)

  2. 2

    Bot Lab to 5:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor5Mex
    • Wind Turbine4Wind
    Builders
    • Construction Bot3 Con bot
    • Lazarus2 Lazarus
    Army
    • Sentry4 Sentry
    • Rocketeer16 Rocketeer
    • Tick2 Tick
    • Centurion1 Centurion
    Other
    • Radar Tower1 Radar Tower

    Some games also: pawn (37%) · con turret (34%)

    By 5:00 in all: 5 mex · 4 wind

    The example game in this phase · 32 steps
    1. Wind
    2. TickTickfor Tech
    3. Wind
    4. TickTick
    5. TickTickfor Tech
    6. Mex
    7. TickTickfor Tech
    8. SentrySentry
    9. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    10. Mex
    11. Construction BotCon bot
    12. Mex
    13. LazarusLazarus
    14. Mex
    15. LazarusLazarus
    16. SentrySentry
    17. CenturionCenturion
    18. SentrySentry
    19. CenturionCenturion
    20. SentrySentry
    21. Mex
    22. CenturionCenturion
    23. SentrySentry ×2
    24. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×4
    25. BeamerBeamer
    26. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    27. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    28. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    29. PawnPawn ×2
    30. RocketeerRocketeer
    31. BeamerBeamer
    32. RocketeerRocketeer ×6
  3. 3

    5:00 to 10:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor1Mex
    • Wind Turbine15Wind
    Builders
    • Construction Turret2 Con turret
    • Lazarus2 Lazarus
    • Construction Bot1 Con bot
    Army
    • Sentry1 Sentry
    • Rocketeer8 Rocketeer

    Some games also: pawn (49%) · Radar Tower (46%) · tick (45%) · centurion (44%) · energy storage (43%) · eat Bot Lab (31%)

    By 10:00 in all: 6 mex · 21 wind · 1 energy storage · 2 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 79 steps
    1. RocketeerRocketeer
    2. Construction BotCon bot ×3
    3. SentrySentry
    4. RocketeerRocketeer ×4
    5. SentrySentry
    6. RocketeerRocketeer
    7. Wind
    8. CenturionCenturion
    9. Wind
    10. Mex
    11. Wind
    12. CenturionCenturion
    13. Wind
    14. Construction BotCon bot
    15. Wind ×2
    16. Construction BotCon bot
    17. Wind ×2
    18. CenturionCenturion
    19. Wind
    20. Mex
    21. Wind
    22. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 10:38 · typical 9:46
    23. Wind ×4
    24. Mex
    25. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    26. Wind ×3
    27. TickTick ×2
    28. Wind
    29. TickTick ×2
    30. Wind
    31. PawnPawn ×2
    32. Con turret
    33. Wind ×2
    34. PawnPawn
    35. Wind ×2
    36. PawnPawn
    37. Pit BullPit Bull
    38. PawnPawn
    39. Wind ×2
    40. PawnPawn
    41. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    42. Wind ×2
    43. Converter
    44. Wind ×2
    45. Converter
    46. Pit BullPit Bull
    47. Wind
    48. PawnPawn
    49. Wind
    50. Converter
    51. Wind
    52. PawnPawn
    53. Wind ×2
    54. Converter
    55. Wind ×2
    56. PawnPawn
    57. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    58. Converter
    59. PawnPawn
    60. Wind ×2
    61. PawnPawn
    62. Wind
    63. Converter
    64. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    65. Wind ×2
    66. PawnPawn
    67. Converter
    68. BeamerBeamer
    69. Wind
    70. PawnPawn
    71. Wind
    72. BeamerBeamer
    73. PawnPawn
    74. Converter
    75. Wind
    76. PawnPawn
    77. Wind
    78. Pit BullPit Bull
    79. PawnPawn

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Jonjo_13's (31 OS, 08/08/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

Nothing regular.

You get

  • Tidal Generator4 Tidal from Pondfirst at 0:11 · in 68% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Geo or Techfirst at 7:41 · in 57% of games

How it plays out

Typical game of this build, running totals by minute

Metal produced

010k20k
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

2395 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0023000
2:0088600
3:002007184130
4:003108643501
5:0041841352998
6:00534921831707
7:00654430512590
8:00776039353502
9:00903546904383
10:001041253145163
11:001188958585965
12:001358364066686
13:001540468757453
14:001729875038214
15:001929281099007
WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY

Standard Suicide front play wins a bit over half its games while taking the heaviest own losses of any role by 15:00.

  • + Produces 20142 metal by 15:00, highest of the front roles.
  • + First kill by 2:01 in all games, fastest contest of middle.
  • − Own metal lost hits 9178 by 15:00, more than enemy metal destroyed.
  • − Only 34% Rocketeer share shows army spread thin across many bot types.
THE EXAMPLE YOU ARE READING

Jonjo_13

30.8 OS · 08/08/2026

Open source match ↗

5 received units · includes a constructor
218 metal received · 47162 energy received

Allied construction assistance is unknown. Timings are observations, not a promise of solo reproducibility.

Typical milestones

Bot Lab0:21Middle 50%: 0:20–0:33 · n=2387
Advanced Metal Extractor9:46Middle 50%: 8:50–10:58 · n=1732

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