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Suicide front / Armada / Factory first / OBSERVED BUILD

Standard suicide front

Bot Lab first into Rocketeer/Centurion/Pawn to contest the middle early and hold until T2 arrives, the role's baseline play.

Usually lab first (62%)

#rush · 1185 distinct matches · 125 players · 71% of Armada Suicide front games · team won 60% of 1411 · 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 1185 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
    • Rocketeer18 Rocketeer
    • Tick2 Tick
    • Centurion1 Centurion
    Other
    • Radar Tower1 Radar Tower

    Some games also: con turret (35%) · pawn (31%)

    By 5:00 in all: 5 mex · 5 wind

    The example game in this phase · 37 steps
    1. Mex
    2. LazarusLazarus
    3. TickTick
    4. Wind
    5. TickTick
    6. LazarusLazarus
    7. Wind
    8. PawnPawn ×2
    9. LazarusLazarus
    10. PawnPawn ×4
    11. Construction BotCon bot ×3
    12. CenturionCenturion
    13. Mex
    14. RocketeerRocketeer
    15. Mex
    16. RocketeerRocketeer ×4
    17. Mex
    18. RocketeerRocketeer
    19. SentrySentry
    20. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    21. SentrySentry ×2
    22. RocketeerRocketeer
    23. SentrySentry
    24. RocketeerRocketeer
    25. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    26. SentrySentry
    27. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    28. RocketeerRocketeer
    29. Mex
    30. LazarusLazarus
    31. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    32. RocketeerRocketeer
    33. LazarusLazarus
    34. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    35. Wind
    36. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    37. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
  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 (48%) · Radar Tower (47%) · energy storage (46%) · centurion (45%) · Beamer (38%)

    By 10:00 in all: 6 mex · 23 wind · 1 energy storage · 3 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 66 steps
    1. RocketeerRocketeer
    2. Wind
    3. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×3
    4. RocketeerRocketeer
    5. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    6. CenturionCenturion
    7. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    8. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    9. RocketeerRocketeer
    10. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    11. Wind
    12. RocketeerRocketeer
    13. Converter
    14. RocketeerRocketeer
    15. Mex
    16. ThugThug
    17. Converter
    18. RocketeerRocketeer
    19. Wind
    20. ThugThug
    21. RocketeerRocketeer
    22. LazarusLazarus
    23. Energy storage
    24. RocketeerRocketeer
    25. LazarusLazarus
    26. Wind
    27. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    28. Mex
    29. NettleNettle
    30. RocketeerRocketeer
    31. NettleNettle
    32. Wind
    33. Con turret
    34. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    35. SentrySentry
    36. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    37. Wind
    38. RocketeerRocketeer
    39. ThugThug
    40. PawnPawn
    41. Mex
    42. Wind
    43. SentrySentry
    44. GruntGrunt
    45. PawnPawn
    46. SentrySentry
    47. PawnPawn
    48. RocketeerRocketeer
    49. AggravatorAggravator
    50. CenturionCenturion
    51. PawnPawn
    52. RocketeerRocketeer
    53. PawnPawn ×3
    54. RocketeerRocketeer
    55. PawnPawn
    56. ThugThug
    57. PawnPawn
    58. RocketeerRocketeer
    59. PawnPawn ×2
    60. RocketeerRocketeer
    61. PawnPawn ×2
    62. RocketeerRocketeer
    63. PawnPawn ×2
    64. RocketeerRocketeer
    65. PawnPawn ×2
    66. RocketeerRocketeer ×2

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Immort's (55 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 58% 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

1411 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0022600
2:0088900
3:002056172106
4:003161660486
5:00423614131020
6:00543023271785
7:00666131792732
8:00791040353631
9:00929848164516
10:001068854265336
11:001224158986080
12:001402465176842
13:001604270137523
14:001796976808336
15:002029783029228
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

Immort

54.8 OS · 25/09/2026

Open source match ↗

4 received units
22 metal received · 17578 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=1405
Advanced Metal Extractor9:37Middle 50%: 8:41–10:48 · n=1035

Played most by

_X_252games of this buildPlatinumBlonde166games of this buildXad109games of this buildImmort62games of this buildwatermeloans58games of this build
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