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Standard suicide front

Armada Suicide front build order · Supreme Isthmus

The role's baseline: Bot Lab at 0:21 then straight into reclaim-fed T1 bot production to contest the middle and hold until T2 arrives, with an Advanced Metal Extractor around 9:45.

#rush · 2010 distinct matches · 229 players · 72% of Armada Suicide front games · team won 59% of 2383 · Recently observed

HOW TO PLAY IT

Key timing: Bot Lab by 0:20

  1. Open with mex and lab-first to get Bot Lab up by 0:20.
  2. Expand mex and wind while lab pumps units toward middle.
  3. Push Sentry and early Rocketeer, Centurion to contest middle.
  4. Get T2 constructor out once Pond's boost lets you spare metal.
  5. Upgrade mex to Advanced Metal Extractor as you transition off T1 spam.

Phase by phase

TYPICAL OF ITS 2010 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 ~0:21, middle half 0:20–0:33

    Some games also: mex (44%)

  2. 2

    Bot Lab to 5:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor5Mex
    • Wind Turbine4Wind
    Builders
    • Construction Bot3 Con bot
    • Lazarus2 Lazarus
    Army
    • Sentry4 Sentry
    • Rocketeer16 Rocketeer
    • Tick2 Tick
    • Centurion1 Centurion
    Other
    • Radar Tower1 Radar Tower

    Some games also: pawn (38%) · con turret (34%)

    By 5:00 in all: 5 mex · 4 wind

    The example game in this phase · 28 steps
    1. Mex
    2. TickTick
    3. Construction BotCon bot
    4. Wind ×2
    5. Mex
    6. SentrySentry
    7. Construction BotCon bot
    8. CenturionCenturion
    9. Mex
    10. LazarusLazarus
    11. Construction BotCon bot
    12. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    13. RocketeerRocketeer
    14. Mex
    15. RocketeerRocketeer
    16. SentrySentry
    17. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    18. SentrySentry
    19. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    20. SentrySentry
    21. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    22. SentrySentry
    23. RocketeerRocketeer ×12
    24. Construction BotCon bot
    25. Mex
    26. RocketeerRocketeer
    27. Wind
    28. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
  3. 3

    5:00 to 10:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor1Mex
    • Wind Turbine15Wind
    Builders
    • Construction Turret2 Con turret
    • Lazarus2 Lazarus
    • Construction Bot1 Con bot
    Army
    • Sentry1 Sentry
    • Rocketeer8 Rocketeer

    Some games also: pawn (49%) · Radar Tower (46%) · tick (45%) · centurion (44%) · energy storage (43%) · eat Bot Lab (31%)

    By 10:00 in all: 6 mex · 21 wind · 1 energy storage · 2 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 75 steps
    1. RocketeerRocketeer
    2. Wind
    3. RocketeerRocketeer
    4. LazarusLazarus
    5. Wind
    6. LazarusLazarus
    7. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    8. Wind
    9. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    10. Wind
    11. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    12. BeamerBeamer
    13. Wind
    14. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    15. Sneaky PeteSneaky Pete
    16. RocketeerRocketeer
    17. Wind
    18. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    19. Wind
    20. RocketeerRocketeer
    21. Con turret
    22. RocketeerRocketeer
    23. Wind
    24. RocketeerRocketeer
    25. Sneaky PeteSneaky Pete
    26. RocketeerRocketeer
    27. Energy storage
    28. Wind
    29. RocketeerRocketeer
    30. Wind ×2
    31. Energy storage
    32. TickTick ×2
    33. Wind
    34. Con turret
    35. TickTick ×3
    36. Wind
    37. TickTick ×4
    38. Wind
    39. BeamerBeamer
    40. TickTick ×3
    41. Sneaky PeteSneaky Pete
    42. TickTick
    43. Con turret
    44. TickTick
    45. Wind
    46. TickTick ×3
    47. Wind
    48. TickTick ×10
    49. Wind
    50. TickTick ×10
    51. Wind
    52. TickTick ×2
    53. Bot LabBot Labdone 12:06
    54. TickTick ×3
    55. Wind
    56. TickTick ×3
    57. Wind
    58. TickTick ×4
    59. Wind
    60. Bot LabEat Bot Labreclaimed for its metal
    61. TickTick ×3
    62. CenturionCenturion
    63. TickTick ×2
    64. Wind
    65. TickTick ×9
    66. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 14:04 · typical 9:46
    67. TickTick
    68. Wind
    69. TickTick ×2
    70. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    71. TickTick
    72. Wind
    73. TickTick
    74. BeamerBeamer
    75. TickTick ×6

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is ITz_Sifu's (34 OS, 15/08/2026); 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 68% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Geo or Techfirst at 7:41 · in 57% of games

How it plays out

Typical game of this build, running totals by minute

Metal produced

010k20k
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

2383 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0023000
2:0088700
3:002009184130
4:003110645501
5:00418513571000
6:00534921831712
7:00653930512597
8:00776039393502
9:00904647004376
10:001041853145163
11:001189458585965
12:001360664076686
13:001540768797437
14:001729875058212
15:001926981098991
WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY

Standard Suicide front play wins a bit over half its games while taking the heaviest own losses of any role by 15:00.

  • + Produces 20142 metal by 15:00, highest of the front roles.
  • + First kill by 2:01 in all games, fastest contest of middle.
  • − Own metal lost hits 9178 by 15:00, more than enemy metal destroyed.
  • − Only 34% Rocketeer share shows army spread thin across many bot types.
THE EXAMPLE YOU ARE READING

ITz_Sifu

33.7 OS · 15/08/2026

Open source match ↗

16 received units · includes a constructor
408 metal received · 54175 energy received

Allied construction assistance is unknown. Timings are observations, not a promise of solo reproducibility.

Typical milestones

Bot Lab0:21Middle 50%: 0:20–0:33 · n=2375
Advanced Metal Extractor9:46Middle 50%: 8:50–10:58 · n=1723

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