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

0:03Open with mex and wind, drop Bot Lab immediately.
1:39Push out first "Centurion" as Pond's boost lands.
2:04Send "Rocketeer", "Centurion", "Pawn" mix to contest middle.
by 3:19Add Dragon's Teeth and Sentries to hold the line.
9:41Get Advanced Metal Extractor up as T2 nears.

Phase by phase

TYPICAL OF ITS 1185 GAMES

1
20:03
35:00

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
Bot Lab first
0:00 – 0:03
Order
1. Bot Lab ~0:03done ~0:20, middle half 0:20–0:33
Some games also: mex (37%)
2
Bot Lab to 5:00
0:03 – 5:00
Economy
- 5Mex
- 4Wind
Builders
- 3 Con bot
- 2 Lazarus
Army
- 4 Sentry
- 18 Rocketeer
- 2 Tick
- 1 Centurion
Other
- 1 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 · 42 steps
1. 0:20Mex
2. 0:20Lazarus
3. 0:33Tick
4. 0:33Wind
5. 0:37Tick
6. 0:40Lazarus
7. 0:42Wind
8. 0:52Pawn ×2
9. 1:01Lazarus
10. 1:08Pawn ×2
11. 1:18Con bot ×2
12. 1:35Centurion
13. 1:44Mex ×2
14. 2:02Rocketeer
15. 2:04Mex
16. 2:16Rocketeer
17. 2:27Sentry
18. 2:27Rocketeer
19. 2:35Mex
20. 2:35Rocketeer
21. 2:43Sentry
22. 2:43Rocketeer ×2
23. 2:55Sentry
24. 2:59Rocketeer ×3
25. 3:17Radar Tower
26. 3:22Rocketeer
27. 3:26Sentry
28. 3:27Lazarus
29. 3:30Con bot
30. 3:32Centurion
31. 3:40Solar
32. 3:44Lazarus
33. 4:01Centurion
34. 4:03Sentry
35. 4:07Dragon's Teeth ×4
36. 4:15Sentry
37. 4:16Con bot
38. 4:23Dragon's Teeth
39. 4:29Con bot
40. 4:40Rocketeer ×4
41. 4:57Sentry
42. 4:58Rocketeer
3
5:00 to 10:00
5:00 – 10:00
Economy
- 1Mex
- 17Wind
Builders
- 2 Con turret
- 2 Lazarus
- 1 Con bot
Army
- 1 Sentry
- 8 Rocketeer
- 1 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 · 177 steps
1. 5:00Rocketeer ×2
2. 5:09Sentry
3. 5:10Rocketeer ×2
4. 5:28Sentry
5. 5:28Rocketeer
6. 5:35Sentry ×3
7. 5:59Rocketeer
8. 6:09Lazarus
9. 6:13Radar Tower
10. 6:19Wind ×2
11. 6:28Lazarus
12. 6:31Wind ×2
13. 6:38Sentry
14. 6:42Wind ×2
15. 6:47Con bot
16. 6:52Wind ×2
17. 7:02Rocketeer
18. 7:03Con turret
19. 7:11Con bot
20. 7:13Rocketeer
21. 7:14Mex
22. 7:24Energy storage
23. 7:26Rocketeer ×2
24. 7:36Centurion
25. 7:39Wind ×2
26. 7:51Centurion
27. 7:54Wind ×2
28. 8:02Centurion
29. 8:05Sentry
30. 8:08Wind
31. 8:13Centurion
32. 8:14Sentry
33. 8:16Wind ×2
34. 8:24Radar Tower
35. 8:24Centurion
36. 8:25Wind ×2
37. 8:34Pawn ×2
38. 8:39Wind
39. 8:44Pawn ×2
40. 8:52T2 mexdone 9:26 · typical 9:37
41. 8:53Pawn ×3
42. 9:09Energy storage
43. 9:11Wind
44. 9:15Pawn
45. 9:27Wind
46. 9:32Pawn
47. 9:33Wind
48. 9:34T2 mex
49. 9:36Pawn
50. 9:38Wind
51. 9:41Pawn
52. 9:45Wind
53. 9:48Pawn
54. 9:52Wind
55. 9:55Pawn
56. 9:57T2 mex
57. 9:59Wind
58. 10:03Pawn
59. 10:06Wind
60. 10:12T2 mex
61. 10:17Mex
62. 10:22Pawn ×3
63. 10:46Dragon's Teeth ×4
64. 10:52Con turret
65. 10:53Dragon's Teeth
66. 10:53Pawn
67. 10:55Dragon's Teeth ×3
68. 10:58Fortification Wall
69. 10:59Dragon's Teeth ×2
70. 11:02Fortification Wall
71. 11:02Dragon's Teeth
72. 11:03Centurion
73. 11:05Dragon's Teeth
74. 11:05Fortification Wall
75. 11:06Dragon's Teeth
76. 11:10Fortification Wall
77. 11:14Con turret
78. 11:14Fortification Wall ×2
79. 11:21Dragon's Teeth ×3
80. 11:26Centurion
81. 11:27Con turret
82. 11:27Pit Bull
83. 11:28Dragon's Teeth ×5
84. 11:37Wind
85. 11:38Dragon's Teeth
86. 11:39Centurion
87. 11:41Wind
88. 11:47Centurion
89. 11:48Pawn
90. 11:48Tick
91. 11:49Wind
92. 11:54Tick ×8
93. 12:11Wind
94. 12:11T2 mex
95. 12:12Tick ×7
96. 12:25Vehicle Plantdone 12:50
97. 12:26Tick ×4
98. 12:32Wind
99. 12:34Tick ×6
100. 12:45Fortification Wall
101. 12:46Tick
102. 12:48Fortification Wall
103. 12:50Blitz
104. 12:51Fortification Wall
105. 12:51Tick
106. 12:52Wind
107. 12:54Blitz
108. 12:54Fortification Wall
109. 12:54Tick
110. 12:57Blitz
111. 12:58Tick
112. 13:00Blitz
113. 13:01Tick
114. 13:02Wind
115. 13:03Tick
116. 13:05Blitz
117. 13:06Tick
118. 13:09Blitz
119. 13:10Tick
120. 13:10Wind
121. 13:13Blitz
122. 13:14Tick
123. 13:14Wind
124. 13:16Tick
125. 13:18Dragon's Teeth
126. 13:19Blitz
127. 13:19Wind
128. 13:20Tick
129. 13:20Dragon's Teeth ×3
130. 13:23Wind
131. 13:24Tick
132. 13:24Blitz
133. 13:24Dragon's Teeth ×2
134. 13:25Wind
135. 13:26Dragon's Teeth
136. 13:27Tick
137. 13:27Dragon's Teeth ×2
138. 13:29Tick
139. 13:30Blitz
140. 13:30Wind
141. 13:32Veil
142. 13:33Tick
143. 13:35Blitz
144. 13:35Tick ×2
145. 13:37Wind
146. 13:39Blitz
147. 13:40Tick
148. 13:42Wind ×2
149. 13:45Tick
150. 13:46Blitz
151. 13:48Wind
152. 13:51Tick ×2
153. 13:54Blitz
154. 13:55Wind
155. 13:56Tick
156. 13:58Blitz
157. 13:59Tick
158. 14:01Wind
159. 14:02Tick
160. 14:02Blitz
161. 14:04Tick
162. 14:06Wind
163. 14:07Tick
164. 14:08Blitz
165. 14:09Tick
166. 14:11Blitz
167. 14:12Tick
168. 14:14Blitz
169. 14:15Tick
170. 14:16Rattlesnakenot finished by 15:00
171. 14:18Blitz
172. 14:18Tick ×2
173. 14:26Blitz
174. 14:27Tick
175. 14:28Advanced solar
176. 14:31Tick
177. 14:31Blitz

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Immort's (55 OS, 24/09/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

Nothing regular.

You get

4 Tidal from Pondfirst at 0:10 · in 69% of games
1 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

By	Metal produced: This build	Enemy metal destroyed: This build	Own metal lost: This build
1:00	226	0	0
2:00	889	0	0
3:00	2056	172	106
4:00	3161	660	486
5:00	4236	1413	1020
6:00	5430	2327	1785
7:00	6661	3179	2732
8:00	7910	4035	3631
9:00	9298	4816	4516
10:00	10688	5426	5336
11:00	12241	5898	6080
12:00	14024	6517	6842
13:00	16042	7013	7523
14:00	17969	7680	8336
15:00	20297	8302	9228

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

Immort

55.4 OS · 24/09/2026

Open source match ↗

5 received units · includes a constructor
222 metal received · 29742 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

Played most by

_X_252games of this build PlatinumBlonde166games of this build Xad109games of this build Immort62games of this build watermeloans58games of this build

Supporting games

Pick a game to read and play it above.

Xad25/09/2026 · 46 OS↗Immort25/09/2026 · 55 OS↗Xad25/09/2026 · 46 OS↗Boozha25/09/2026 · 36 OS↗PlatinumBlonde25/09/2026 · 59 OS↗PlatinumBlonde25/09/2026 · 59 OS↗Boozha25/09/2026 · 36 OS↗Espera25/09/2026 · 38 OS↗Immort24/09/2026 · 55 OS↗

32 more of 1403, the most recent

Supreme Isthmus v2.1
Beyond All Reason test-31383-33cc827
Naval balance tweaks on

Standard suicide front

Phase by phase

Bot Lab first

Bot Lab to 5:00

5:00 to 10:00

Team trades

You hand over

You get

How it plays out

Metal produced

Enemy metal destroyed

Own metal lost

Immort

Typical milestones

Played most by

Supporting games