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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 · 30 steps
    1. Mex
    2. TickTick ×2
    3. Mex
    4. Construction BotCon bot
    5. Wind ×2
    6. Mex
    7. Construction BotCon bot
    8. CenturionCenturion
    9. Mex
    10. LazarusLazarus
    11. Mex
    12. Construction BotCon bot
    13. Mex
    14. RocketeerRocketeer
    15. SentrySentry
    16. RocketeerRocketeer
    17. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    18. RocketeerRocketeer ×6
    19. BeamerBeamer
    20. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    21. BeamerBeamer
    22. RocketeerRocketeer
    23. BeamerBeamer
    24. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    25. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    26. RocketeerRocketeer
    27. PawnPawn ×4
    28. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    29. PawnPawn
    30. RocketeerRocketeer ×4
  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 · 96 steps
    1. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    2. Construction BotCon bot ×3
    3. RocketeerRocketeer
    4. Mex
    5. Wind
    6. RocketeerRocketeer
    7. TickTick
    8. Wind
    9. TickTick ×2
    10. Con turret
    11. TickTick ×2
    12. Wind
    13. TickTick ×3
    14. Wind
    15. TickTick
    16. PawnPawn
    17. Wind
    18. PawnPawn
    19. SentrySentry
    20. PawnPawn
    21. Wind ×2
    22. SentrySentry
    23. PawnPawn
    24. Wind
    25. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:50
    26. SentrySentry
    27. Wind
    28. PawnPawn
    29. Wind ×2
    30. PawnPawn ×2
    31. Mex
    32. PawnPawn
    33. LazarusLazarus
    34. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    35. PawnPawn
    36. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×3
    37. PawnPawn
    38. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    39. PawnPawn
    40. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×3
    41. PawnPawn ×4
    42. LazarusLazarus
    43. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    44. PawnPawn ×2
    45. Wind ×2
    46. PawnPawn
    47. Wind
    48. PawnPawn
    49. Wind
    50. Con turret
    51. PawnPawn
    52. Wind
    53. Con turret
    54. Energy storage
    55. Wind
    56. PawnPawn
    57. Wind
    58. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    59. Wind ×3
    60. PawnPawn
    61. Wind ×2
    62. PawnPawn
    63. Wind
    64. PawnPawn
    65. Wind ×2
    66. PawnPawn
    67. Con turret
    68. Wind
    69. PawnPawn
    70. Wind ×2
    71. PawnPawn
    72. Wind
    73. PawnPawn
    74. Wind
    75. Con turret
    76. Wind
    77. PawnPawn
    78. Wind ×2
    79. PawnPawn
    80. Wind
    81. PawnPawn
    82. Wind ×2
    83. PawnPawn
    84. Con turret
    85. Wind
    86. PawnPawn
    87. Wind
    88. PersecutorPersecutornot finished by 15:00
    89. Wind ×2
    90. Con turret
    91. Wind
    92. PawnPawn
    93. Wind ×2
    94. PawnPawn ×2
    95. Converter
    96. Wind

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is PlatinumBlonde's (59 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

PlatinumBlonde

59.4 OS · 25/09/2026

Open source match ↗

12 received units · includes a constructor
91 metal received · 20168 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

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