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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 · 40 steps
    1. Mex
    2. TickTick
    3. LazarusLazarus
    4. Wind
    5. PawnPawn ×3
    6. LazarusLazarus
    7. PawnPawn ×3
    8. Construction BotCon bot
    9. TickTick
    10. Construction BotCon botfor Front
    11. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    12. Mex
    13. CenturionCenturion
    14. RocketeerRocketeer
    15. Mexfor Front
    16. RocketeerRocketeer
    17. Mex
    18. RocketeerRocketeer
    19. RocketeerRocketeerfor Front
    20. RocketeerRocketeer
    21. Wind
    22. RocketeerRocketeer
    23. SentrySentry
    24. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    25. Wind
    26. RocketeerRocketeer
    27. SentrySentry
    28. RocketeerRocketeer
    29. Mexfor Front
    30. Wind
    31. LazarusLazarus ×2
    32. RocketeerRocketeer
    33. Energy storagefor Front
    34. RocketeerRocketeerfor Front
    35. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    36. SentrySentryfor Front
    37. TickTick
    38. SentrySentryfor Front
    39. CenturionCenturion
    40. RocketeerRocketeer
  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 · 34 steps
    1. RocketeerRocketeerfor Front
    2. RocketeerRocketeer
    3. PawnPawn ×3
    4. GuardGuardfor Front
    5. PawnPawn ×2
    6. SentrySentry
    7. PawnPawn ×2
    8. ThugThug
    9. PawnPawn
    10. NettleNettle
    11. PawnPawn ×6
    12. SentrySentry
    13. TickTick
    14. LazarusLazarus
    15. SentrySentry
    16. LazarusLazarus
    17. Bot LabBot Labfor Frontdone 7:57
    18. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexfor Frontdone 9:02 · typical 9:37
    19. LazarusLazarus
    20. Construction BotCon botfor Front
    21. GlaucusGlaucusfor Front
    22. LazarusLazarus
    23. SentrySentry
    24. GlaucusGlaucus ×2for Front
    25. TickTick
    26. Construction BotCon botfor Front
    27. CenturionCenturion
    28. GlaucusGlaucusfor Front
    29. Mexfor Front
    30. PawnPawn ×2for Front
    31. TickTick
    32. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexfor Front
    33. PawnPawn ×2for Front
    34. TickTick

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 ↗

5 received units · includes a constructor
46 metal received · 11541 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

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