BAR / BUILD ATLAS
← All builds
Suicide front / Armada / Factory first / OBSERVED BUILD

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 · 2020 distinct matches · 232 players · 71% of Armada Suicide front games · team won 59% of 2395 · 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 2020 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 (37%) · con turret (34%)

    By 5:00 in all: 5 mex · 4 wind

    The example game in this phase · 34 steps
    1. LazarusLazarus
    2. TickTick ×3
    3. Construction BotCon bot
    4. CenturionCenturion
    5. LazarusLazarus
    6. Construction BotCon bot
    7. Mex
    8. SentrySentry
    9. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    10. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    11. Mex
    12. RocketeerRocketeer
    13. Mex
    14. RocketeerRocketeer
    15. SentrySentry
    16. RocketeerRocketeer
    17. Mex
    18. Construction BotCon bot
    19. Mex
    20. RocketeerRocketeer
    21. SentrySentry
    22. RocketeerRocketeer
    23. SentrySentry
    24. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    25. SentrySentry
    26. Construction BotCon bot
    27. RocketeerRocketeer
    28. SentrySentry
    29. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    30. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    31. RocketeerRocketeer
    32. SentrySentry
    33. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    34. SentrySentry
  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 · 71 steps
    1. RocketeerRocketeer
    2. SentrySentry
    3. RocketeerRocketeer
    4. SentrySentry
    5. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    6. SentrySentry
    7. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    8. SentrySentry
    9. RocketeerRocketeer
    10. SentrySentry
    11. RocketeerRocketeer
    12. BeamerBeamer
    13. RocketeerRocketeer
    14. Mex
    15. RocketeerRocketeer
    16. Converter
    17. Con turret
    18. RocketeerRocketeer
    19. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    20. Wind
    21. BeamerBeamer
    22. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:55 · typical 9:46
    23. SentrySentry ×2
    24. Wind
    25. SentrySentry
    26. Wind
    27. BeamerBeamer
    28. Wind ×2
    29. RocketeerRocketeer
    30. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    31. RocketeerRocketeer
    32. MaceMace
    33. Wind ×3
    34. MaceMace
    35. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    36. Wind
    37. NettleNettle
    38. Wind
    39. NettleNettle
    40. MaceMace
    41. Wind
    42. NettleNettle
    43. Wind
    44. MaceMace
    45. NettleNettle
    46. MaceMace
    47. Wind
    48. RattlesnakeRattlesnakedone 13:08
    49. NettleNettle
    50. MaceMace
    51. Wind ×2
    52. AnemoneAnemone
    53. Wind ×2
    54. AnemoneAnemone
    55. Wind
    56. VeilVeil
    57. Wind
    58. AnemoneAnemone
    59. Wind
    60. PawnPawn
    61. Wind
    62. PawnPawn ×2
    63. Wind
    64. PawnPawn ×2
    65. Wind
    66. PawnPawn ×2
    67. Wind
    68. PawnPawn ×3
    69. Wind
    70. PawnPawn ×2
    71. Wind

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Sarge6194's (33 OS, 08/10/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

Nothing regular.

You get

  • Tidal Generator4 Tidal from Pondfirst at 0:11 · 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

2395 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0023000
2:0088600
3:002007184130
4:003108643501
5:0041841352998
6:00534921831707
7:00654430512590
8:00776039353502
9:00903546904383
10:001041253145163
11:001188958585965
12:001358364066686
13:001540468757453
14:001729875038214
15:001929281099007
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

Sarge6194

32.8 OS · 08/10/2026

Open source match ↗

8 received units · includes a constructor
414 metal received · 3179 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=2387
Advanced Metal Extractor9:46Middle 50%: 8:50–10:58 · n=1732

Played most by

_X_262games of this buildPlatinumBlonde188games of this buildXad165games of this buildTrapCaT109games of this buildImmort80games of this build