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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

  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 1185 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 (37%)

  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 (31%)

    By 5:00 in all: 5 mex · 5 wind

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

    By 10:00 in all: 6 mex · 23 wind · 1 energy storage · 3 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 217 steps
    1. CenturionCenturion
    2. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    3. ThugThug
    4. RocketeerRocketeer
    5. Mex
    6. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    7. ThugThug
    8. RocketeerRocketeer
    9. Mex
    10. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 6:59 · typical 9:37
    11. Construction BotCon bot
    12. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×4
    13. Wind
    14. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    15. Construction BotCon bot
    16. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    17. Wind
    18. Construction BotCon bot
    19. Wind
    20. Construction BotCon bot
    21. Wind
    22. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    23. Construction BotCon bot
    24. Wind
    25. Converter
    26. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    27. Wind
    28. Mex
    29. Wind ×2
    30. Converter
    31. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    32. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    33. Wind
    34. SentrySentry ×2
    35. Wind
    36. Con turret
    37. Wind
    38. Converter
    39. Wind
    40. Mex
    41. Con turret
    42. Wind ×2
    43. Con turret
    44. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    45. Converter
    46. Wind
    47. Advanced solar
    48. Advanced Bot LabAdvanced Bot Labdone 9:41
    49. Wind
    50. SentrySentry
    51. Wind
    52. Converter
    53. Advanced solar
    54. Wind ×2
    55. Advanced solar
    56. Wind
    57. HoundHound
    58. Converter
    59. Con turret ×2
    60. Wind
    61. WelderWelder
    62. Wind
    63. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    64. Advanced solar
    65. Energy storage
    66. HoundHound
    67. Wind
    68. Converter
    69. Wind ×2
    70. WelderWelder
    71. SentrySentry
    72. Advanced solar ×2
    73. Fortification WallFortification Wall ×2
    74. SentrySentry
    75. Wind
    76. Fortification WallFortification Wall ×3
    77. HoundHound
    78. SentrySentry
    79. Converter
    80. WelderWelder
    81. Wind
    82. Fortification WallFortification Wall ×2
    83. SentrySentry
    84. HoundHound
    85. Fortification WallFortification Wall
    86. Wind
    87. Fortification WallFortification Wall
    88. Wind
    89. WelderWelder
    90. Fortification WallFortification Wall ×2
    91. SentrySentry
    92. SharpshooterSniper botfor Geo seadone 11:33
    93. Wind ×2
    94. SentrySentry
    95. Converter
    96. Wind
    97. HoundHound
    98. Wind
    99. WelderWelder
    100. RattlesnakeRattlesnakedone 12:44
    101. Wind
    102. SharpshooterSniper bot
    103. Wind
    104. HoundHound
    105. Con turret ×2
    106. WelderWelder
    107. Wind ×2
    108. TickTick
    109. Con turret
    110. Converter
    111. Wind
    112. Con turret
    113. TickTick
    114. Wind
    115. TickTick
    116. Wind
    117. HoundHound
    118. TickTick
    119. WelderWelder
    120. TickTick ×2
    121. Wind ×2
    122. HoundHound
    123. TickTick ×2
    124. WelderWelder
    125. TickTick ×2
    126. Wind
    127. SentrySentry
    128. LazarusLazarus
    129. HoundHound
    130. Converter
    131. Wind
    132. WelderWelder
    133. LazarusLazarus
    134. Wind
    135. HoundHound
    136. TickTick
    137. Wind
    138. WelderWelder
    139. TickTick
    140. SentrySentry
    141. TickTick
    142. Wind
    143. TickTick
    144. HoundHound
    145. TickTick
    146. Wind
    147. ArchangelArchangeldone 13:07
    148. TickTick
    149. Fusion ReactorFusiondone 13:48
    150. ArchangelArchangel
    151. TickTick
    152. Wind
    153. SentrySentry
    154. Converter
    155. TickTick
    156. Wind ×2
    157. TickTick
    158. WelderWelder
    159. TickTick
    160. Wind
    161. SentrySentry
    162. Wind
    163. TickTick
    164. HoundHound
    165. TickTick
    166. Wind ×3
    167. SentrySentry
    168. Converter
    169. TickTick
    170. UmbrellaAnti-nukedone 14:12
    171. TickTick
    172. Wind ×3
    173. TickTick
    174. T2 converter
    175. SentrySentry
    176. TickTick
    177. Wind ×3
    178. TickTick
    179. HoundHound
    180. TickTick
    181. Wind
    182. SentrySentry
    183. Converter
    184. Wind
    185. Converter
    186. TickTick
    187. Wind ×2
    188. WelderWelder
    189. TickTick ×2
    190. Wind
    191. HoundHound
    192. TickTick
    193. SentrySentry
    194. TickTick
    195. Wind
    196. WelderWelder
    197. Wind
    198. TickTick
    199. HoundHound
    200. LazarusLazarus
    201. Wind
    202. WelderWelder
    203. LazarusLazarus
    204. Wind
    205. HoundHound
    206. Converter
    207. Wind ×2
    208. TickTick
    209. SentrySentry
    210. Converter
    211. TickTick
    212. WelderWelder
    213. TickTick
    214. Wind
    215. HoundHound
    216. TickTick
    217. SentrySentry

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Erilium's (46 OS, 24/09/2026); 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

1411 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0022600
2:0088900
3:002056172106
4:003161660486
5:00423614131020
6:00543023271785
7:00666131792732
8:00791040353631
9:00929848164516
10:001068854265336
11:001224158986080
12:001402465176842
13:001604270137523
14:001796976808336
15:002029783029228
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

Erilium

45.8 OS · 24/09/2026

Open source match ↗

7 received units · includes a constructor
187 metal received · 75405 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

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