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Suicide front / Armada / Factory first / OBSERVED BUILD

Standard suicide front

The role's default: factory first (mostly Bot Lab), pushing Rocketeer-led bot play into the middle to contest and hold the front, with an Advanced Metal Extractor around 9:36 as the natural transition.

Usually lab first (63%)

#raid #push · 1291 distinct matches · 127 players · 71% of Armada Suicide front games · team won 59% of 1529 · 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 1291 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 (32%)

    By 5:00 in all: 5 mex · 4 wind

    The example game in this phase · 44 steps
    1. Mex
    2. TickTick
    3. Wind
    4. TickTick
    5. Wind
    6. LazarusLazarus
    7. Mex
    8. SentrySentry
    9. Construction BotCon bot
    10. Mex
    11. Construction BotCon bot
    12. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    13. SentrySentry
    14. Construction BotCon bot
    15. CenturionCenturion
    16. Mex
    17. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    18. SentrySentry
    19. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    20. SentrySentry
    21. Mex
    22. RocketeerRocketeer
    23. Wind
    24. SentrySentry
    25. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    26. Wind
    27. RocketeerRocketeer
    28. SentrySentry
    29. Wind
    30. RocketeerRocketeer
    31. Wind
    32. SentrySentry
    33. RocketeerRocketeer
    34. Wind
    35. SentrySentry
    36. RocketeerRocketeer
    37. Wind
    38. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    39. RocketeerRocketeer ×7
    40. LazarusLazarus
    41. Mex
    42. Energy storage
    43. LazarusLazarus
    44. SentrySentry
  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 (47%) · energy storage (46%) · Radar Tower (46%) · centurion (45%) · Beamer (39%)

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

    The example game in this phase · 89 steps
    1. RocketeerRocketeer
    2. Energy storage
    3. SentrySentry
    4. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    5. MaceMace
    6. Mex
    7. MaceMace
    8. Con turret
    9. MaceMace
    10. SentrySentry
    11. RocketeerRocketeer
    12. SentrySentry
    13. Con turret
    14. RocketeerRocketeer
    15. SentrySentry
    16. Wind ×2
    17. RocketeerRocketeer
    18. Wind
    19. RocketeerRocketeer
    20. Wind
    21. RocketeerRocketeer
    22. Wind
    23. Mex
    24. MaceMace
    25. Wind
    26. MaceMace
    27. Wind
    28. MaceMace
    29. SentrySentry
    30. Wind
    31. RocketeerRocketeer
    32. Wind
    33. SentrySentry
    34. RocketeerRocketeer
    35. Wind
    36. RocketeerRocketeer
    37. Wind
    38. SentrySentry
    39. RocketeerRocketeer
    40. Wind
    41. RocketeerRocketeer
    42. SentrySentry
    43. PawnPawn ×5
    44. Con turret
    45. Wind
    46. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 8:16
    47. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    48. PawnPawn
    49. Con turret
    50. Wind
    51. PawnPawn
    52. Wind
    53. PawnPawn
    54. Wind
    55. PawnPawn
    56. BlitzBlitz
    57. Wind
    58. PawnPawn
    59. Wind
    60. BlitzBlitz
    61. PawnPawn
    62. Wind
    63. PawnPawn
    64. BlitzBlitz
    65. Wind
    66. PawnPawn
    67. BlitzBlitz
    68. PawnPawn
    69. BlitzBlitz
    70. PawnPawn
    71. BlitzBlitz
    72. PawnPawn
    73. BlitzBlitz
    74. PawnPawn
    75. Mex
    76. BlitzBlitz
    77. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:15
    78. PawnPawn
    79. BlitzBlitz
    80. PawnPawn
    81. Mex
    82. BlitzBlitz
    83. SentrySentry
    84. PawnPawn
    85. BlitzBlitz ×3
    86. SentrySentry
    87. BlitzBlitz ×4
    88. SentrySentry
    89. BlitzBlitz ×9

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is ManBearPig_'s (37 OS, 20/09/2026); 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 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

1529 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0022600
2:0088800
3:002051180106
4:003161658496
5:00424314131026
6:00543322981789
7:00667031752710
8:00792040313619
9:00931747964495
10:001069954265316
11:001226559036054
12:001411365126830
13:001622270137536
14:001810976968373
15:002046683299249
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

ManBearPig_

37.3 OS · 20/09/2026

Open source match ↗

5 received units · includes a constructor
333 metal received · 19057 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=1522
Advanced Metal Extractor9:36Middle 50%: 8:41–10:48 · n=1128

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