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Suicide front / Armada / Factory first / OBSERVED BUILD

Standard suicide front

Armada Suicide front build order · Supreme Isthmus

The role's standard play: bot lab first, Rocketeer/Centurion/Pawn based force pushes into the middle to contest and hold it until T2 arrives.

Usually lab first (63%)

#rush #push · 1371 distinct matches · 134 players · 71% of Armada Suicide front games · team won 59% of 1623 · 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 1371 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
    • Rocketeer17 Rocketeer
    • Tick2 Tick
    • Centurion1 Centurion
    Other
    • Radar Tower1 Radar Tower

    Some games also: con turret (35%) · pawn (34%)

    By 5:00 in all: 5 mex · 4 wind

    The example game in this phase · 42 steps
    1. Mex
    2. Construction BotCon bot
    3. Wind
    4. TickTick
    5. SentrySentry
    6. Mex
    7. Construction BotCon bot
    8. Mex
    9. MaceMace
    10. Mex
    11. SentrySentry
    12. Construction BotCon bot
    13. Wind
    14. LazarusLazarus
    15. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    16. RocketeerRocketeer
    17. Wind
    18. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    19. Mex
    20. RocketeerRocketeer
    21. SentrySentry
    22. Con turret
    23. RocketeerRocketeer
    24. SentrySentry
    25. RocketeerRocketeer
    26. SentrySentry
    27. RocketeerRocketeer ×5
    28. Wind
    29. RocketeerRocketeer
    30. Wind
    31. RocketeerRocketeer
    32. Wind
    33. RocketeerRocketeer
    34. Wind
    35. RocketeerRocketeer
    36. Wind
    37. RocketeerRocketeer
    38. Wind
    39. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    40. Energy storage
    41. RocketeerRocketeer
    42. LazarusLazarus
  3. 3

    5:00 to 10:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor1Mex
    • Wind Turbine16Wind
    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 (46%) · energy storage (46%) · centurion (45%) · Beamer (39%)

    By 10:00 in all: 6 mex · 22 wind · 1 energy storage · 3 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 69 steps
    1. Converter
    2. RocketeerRocketeer
    3. BeamerBeamer
    4. RocketeerRocketeer
    5. Con turret
    6. RocketeerRocketeer
    7. CenturionCenturion
    8. Con turret
    9. CenturionCenturion
    10. Wind
    11. RocketeerRocketeer
    12. Wind
    13. RocketeerRocketeer
    14. Wind
    15. RocketeerRocketeer
    16. Wind
    17. RocketeerRocketeer
    18. Wind
    19. RocketeerRocketeer
    20. Wind
    21. RocketeerRocketeer
    22. Wind
    23. RocketeerRocketeer
    24. Wind
    25. RocketeerRocketeer
    26. Wind
    27. RocketeerRocketeer
    28. Converter
    29. Wind
    30. RocketeerRocketeer
    31. Wind
    32. Converter ×2
    33. RocketeerRocketeer
    34. Wind
    35. Converter ×2
    36. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    37. Converter
    38. Wind
    39. RocketeerRocketeer
    40. Wind
    41. Con turret
    42. RocketeerRocketeer
    43. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 10:40 · typical 9:37
    44. Wind ×3
    45. RocketeerRocketeer
    46. Wind
    47. BeamerBeamer
    48. RocketeerRocketeer
    49. Wind
    50. RocketeerRocketeer
    51. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    52. Wind
    53. Sneaky PeteSneaky Pete
    54. RocketeerRocketeer
    55. Wind
    56. PawnPawn ×2
    57. Wind
    58. PawnPawn ×3
    59. Wind
    60. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    61. PawnPawn
    62. Wind
    63. PawnPawn ×20
    64. BeamerBeamer
    65. PawnPawn ×2
    66. BeamerBeamer
    67. PawnPawn
    68. RattlesnakeRattlesnakenot finished by 15:00
    69. PawnPawn ×5

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is TrapCaT's (43 OS, 04/10/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

Nothing regular.

You get

  • Tidal Generator4 Tidal from Pondfirst at 0:10 · in 69% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Geo or Techfirst at 7:31 · in 59% 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

1623 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0022500
2:0088800
3:002046182106
4:003153660496
5:00424214221016
6:00543423011778
7:00667031722706
8:00792440293619
9:00928647884501
10:001067154215319
11:001222658986057
12:001407765146803
13:001615870297523
14:001798976808332
15:002029782959186
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

TrapCaT

42.9 OS · 04/10/2026

Open source match ↗

5 received units · includes a constructor
73 metal received · 24849 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=1616
Advanced Metal Extractor9:37Middle 50%: 8:42–10:48 · n=1198

Played most by

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