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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 · 30 steps
    1. TickTick
    2. Mex
    3. TickTick
    4. Mex
    5. Construction BotCon bot
    6. Wind ×2
    7. Mex
    8. Construction BotCon bot
    9. CenturionCenturion
    10. Mex ×2
    11. LazarusLazarus
    12. Construction BotCon bot
    13. SentrySentry
    14. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    15. RocketeerRocketeer
    16. Mex
    17. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    18. SentrySentry
    19. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    20. BeamerBeamer
    21. RocketeerRocketeer ×7
    22. Con turret
    23. RocketeerRocketeer
    24. Mex
    25. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    26. BeamerBeamer
    27. RocketeerRocketeer
    28. BeamerBeamer
    29. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    30. Wind
  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 · 166 steps
    1. Wind
    2. Sneaky PeteSneaky Pete
    3. RocketeerRocketeer
    4. Solar
    5. Wind
    6. RocketeerRocketeer
    7. Wind
    8. TickTick
    9. Solar
    10. Wind
    11. TickTick
    12. Wind
    13. TickTick ×2
    14. Wind
    15. TickTick
    16. GauntletGauntletdone 6:58
    17. TickTick
    18. Wind ×2
    19. TickTick
    20. Wind
    21. TickTick
    22. Wind
    23. Con turret
    24. TickTick ×2
    25. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    26. TickTick
    27. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×4
    28. Energy storage
    29. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    30. TickTick
    31. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 8:35 · typical 9:38
    32. TickTick ×2
    33. Con turret
    34. Energy storage
    35. TickTick
    36. SentrySentry ×3
    37. Wind
    38. Converter
    39. Mex
    40. Wind
    41. TickTick
    42. Converter
    43. TickTick
    44. Wind
    45. TickTick
    46. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    47. TickTick
    48. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    49. TickTick
    50. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    51. Converter
    52. TickTick
    53. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    54. TickTick
    55. Wind
    56. Con turret
    57. TickTick ×2
    58. Wind
    59. TickTick
    60. Wind
    61. SentrySentry
    62. TickTick ×4
    63. SentrySentry
    64. TickTick
    65. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    66. Wind
    67. TickTick ×2
    68. SentrySentry
    69. Wind
    70. Bot LabBot Labdone 9:52
    71. PawnPawn
    72. Wind ×2
    73. PawnPawn ×6
    74. Wind
    75. PawnPawn ×3
    76. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    77. PawnPawn ×2
    78. Wind
    79. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    80. PawnPawn ×4
    81. Wind
    82. PawnPawn ×5
    83. Wind
    84. PawnPawn
    85. Sneaky PeteSneaky Pete
    86. PawnPawn ×3
    87. Wind
    88. PawnPawn ×2
    89. Wind
    90. PawnPawn
    91. Wind
    92. PawnPawn
    93. TickTick
    94. PawnPawn ×3
    95. Wind
    96. TickTick
    97. PawnPawn ×2
    98. TickTick
    99. PawnPawn
    100. Wind
    101. PawnPawn ×2
    102. TickTick
    103. PawnPawn
    104. Wind
    105. PawnPawn ×2
    106. Solar
    107. PawnPawn
    108. TickTick
    109. Wind
    110. PawnPawn ×2
    111. Solar
    112. PawnPawn
    113. TickTick
    114. PawnPawn
    115. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    116. PawnPawn
    117. Solar
    118. Wind
    119. PawnPawn
    120. TickTick
    121. PawnPawn ×3
    122. Wind
    123. PawnPawn ×2
    124. Wind
    125. PawnPawn
    126. TickTick
    127. PawnPawn ×3
    128. TickTick
    129. PawnPawn
    130. Wind
    131. PawnPawn
    132. TickTick
    133. PawnPawn ×3
    134. TickTick
    135. Wind
    136. PawnPawn ×3
    137. TickTick
    138. PawnPawn ×2
    139. Wind
    140. TickTick
    141. PawnPawn ×3
    142. TickTick
    143. PawnPawn
    144. RattlesnakeRattlesnakenot finished by 15:00
    145. Wind
    146. Construction BotCon bot
    147. TickTick
    148. Construction BotCon bot
    149. PawnPawn
    150. Wind
    151. Construction BotCon bot
    152. TickTick
    153. PawnPawn
    154. Wind
    155. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    156. TickTick
    157. PawnPawn
    158. Wind
    159. TickTick
    160. Wind
    161. PawnPawn
    162. Metal storage
    163. Wind
    164. TickTick
    165. PawnPawn
    166. Wind ×5

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

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

58.9 OS · 25/09/2026

Open source match ↗

10 received units · includes a constructor
197 metal received · 80764 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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