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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 · 1244 distinct matches · 126 players · 71% of Armada Suicide front games · team won 60% of 1476 · 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 1244 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
    • Rocketeer18 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 · 31 steps
    1. TickTick
    2. Mex
    3. TickTickfor Front
    4. Mex
    5. Wind
    6. Construction BotCon bot
    7. Wind
    8. Mex
    9. Construction BotCon bot
    10. Mex
    11. CenturionCenturion
    12. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    13. LazarusLazarus
    14. Construction BotCon bot
    15. SentrySentry
    16. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    17. Mex
    18. RocketeerRocketeer
    19. SentrySentry
    20. RocketeerRocketeer
    21. SentrySentry
    22. RocketeerRocketeer
    23. SentrySentry
    24. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    25. BeamerBeamer
    26. RocketeerRocketeer ×6
    27. Con turret
    28. RocketeerRocketeer ×5
    29. PawnPawn ×2
    30. SentrySentry
    31. PawnPawn
  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 (39%)

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

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

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is PlatinumBlonde's (59 OS, 26/09/2026); 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

1476 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0022600
2:0088800
3:002052173106
4:003161658487
5:00424314151020
6:00543323271786
7:00666831762727
8:00791340353627
9:00930148084496
10:001068454295313
11:001224658946034
12:001409665046820
13:001621470167535
14:001807476888398
15:002043282939278
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

PlatinumBlonde

59.3 OS · 26/09/2026

Open source match ↗

22 received units · includes a constructor
1753 metal received · 20631 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=1470
Advanced Metal Extractor9:38Middle 50%: 8:42–10:48 · n=1084

Played most by

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