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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 · 1323 distinct matches · 130 players · 71% of Armada Suicide front games · team won 59% of 1567 · 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 1323 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
    • Rocketeer17 Rocketeer
    • Tick2 Tick
    • Centurion1 Centurion
    Other
    • Radar Tower1 Radar Tower

    Some games also: con turret (35%) · pawn (33%)

    By 5:00 in all: 5 mex · 4 wind

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

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is [Cookie]swiftplant's (44 OS, 21/08/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

Nothing regular.

You get

  • Tidal Generator4 Tidal from Pondfirst at 0:10 · 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

1567 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0022600
2:0088900
3:002050180106
4:003158658496
5:00424314191026
6:00543422981788
7:00667231662706
8:00792840293614
9:00931747894497
10:001070654215319
11:001226558996054
12:001410765156819
13:001623170197523
14:001811476998340
15:002044183169228
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

[Cookie]swiftplant

43.9 OS · 21/08/2026

Open source match ↗

8 received units · includes a constructor
1 metal received · 71887 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=1560
Advanced Metal Extractor9:36Middle 50%: 8:42–10:48 · n=1158

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