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

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is _X_'s (43 OS, 23/09/2026); 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

_X_

43.4 OS · 23/09/2026

Open source match ↗

9 received units
1090 metal received · 18370 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↗_X_23/09/2026 · 43 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

_X_

Typical milestones

Played most by

Supporting games