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Standard suicide front

Armada Suicide front build order · Supreme Isthmus

The role's baseline: Bot Lab at 0:21 then straight into reclaim-fed T1 bot production to contest the middle and hold until T2 arrives, with an Advanced Metal Extractor around 9:45.

#rush · 2038 distinct matches · 233 players · 72% of Armada Suicide front games · team won 59% of 2418 · Recently observed

HOW TO PLAY IT

Key timing: Bot Lab by 0:20

  1. Open with mex and lab-first to get Bot Lab up by 0:20.
  2. Expand mex and wind while lab pumps units toward middle.
  3. Push Sentry and early Rocketeer, Centurion to contest middle.
  4. Get T2 constructor out once Pond's boost lets you spare metal.
  5. Upgrade mex to Advanced Metal Extractor as you transition off T1 spam.

Phase by phase

TYPICAL OF ITS 2038 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 ~0:24, middle half 0:20–0:33

    Some games also: mex (44%)

  2. 2

    Bot Lab to 5:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor5Mex
    • Wind Turbine4Wind
    Builders
    • Construction Bot3 Con bot
    • Lazarus2 Lazarus
    Army
    • Sentry4 Sentry
    • Rocketeer16 Rocketeer
    • Tick2 Tick
    • Centurion1 Centurion
    Other
    • Radar Tower1 Radar Tower

    Some games also: pawn (38%) · con turret (34%)

    By 5:00 in all: 5 mex · 4 wind

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

    5:00 to 10:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor1Mex
    • Wind Turbine15Wind
    Builders
    • Construction Turret2 Con turret
    • Lazarus2 Lazarus
    • Construction Bot1 Con bot
    Army
    • Sentry1 Sentry
    • Rocketeer8 Rocketeer

    Some games also: pawn (49%) · Radar Tower (46%) · tick (45%) · centurion (44%) · energy storage (43%) · eat Bot Lab (31%)

    By 10:00 in all: 6 mex · 21 wind · 1 energy storage · 2 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 55 steps
    1. SentrySentry
    2. Wind
    3. LazarusLazarus
    4. SentrySentry
    5. RocketeerRocketeer
    6. Wind
    7. RocketeerRocketeer
    8. Wind
    9. MaceMace
    10. SentrySentry
    11. RocketeerRocketeer
    12. Wind
    13. RocketeerRocketeer
    14. Wind
    15. MaceMace
    16. LazarusLazarus
    17. Wind
    18. Con turret
    19. Energy storage
    20. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    21. Wind
    22. MaceMace
    23. RocketeerRocketeer
    24. Wind
    25. RocketeerRocketeer
    26. MaceMace
    27. LazarusLazarus
    28. Wind ×2
    29. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    30. Wind
    31. RocketeerRocketeer
    32. PawnPawn ×2
    33. Con turret
    34. Wind
    35. SentrySentry
    36. PawnPawn ×2
    37. Wind
    38. PawnPawn ×4
    39. Wind
    40. PawnPawn ×2
    41. LazarusLazarus
    42. Wind
    43. PawnPawn ×3
    44. Wind
    45. PawnPawn ×4
    46. Wind
    47. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 8:51 · typical 9:46
    48. Construction BotCon bot
    49. Wind
    50. PawnPawn ×3
    51. LazarusLazarus
    52. Wind
    53. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    54. PawnPawn
    55. Wind ×2

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is NoobSlayer's (31 OS, 10/09/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

Nothing regular.

You get

  • Tidal Generator4 Tidal from Pondfirst at 0:11 · in 68% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Geo or Techfirst at 7:41 · in 57% of games

How it plays out

Typical game of this build, running totals by minute

Metal produced

010k20k
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

2418 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0023000
2:0088700
3:002009184130
4:003109644501
5:0041821350999
6:00534721831707
7:00653930542589
8:00775539383499
9:00904046924371
10:001041053125156
11:001188858565965
12:001357864016685
13:001539668707455
14:001730275038213
15:001925781138994
WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY

Standard Suicide front play wins a bit over half its games while taking the heaviest own losses of any role by 15:00.

  • + Produces 20142 metal by 15:00, highest of the front roles.
  • + First kill by 2:01 in all games, fastest contest of middle.
  • − Own metal lost hits 9178 by 15:00, more than enemy metal destroyed.
  • − Only 34% Rocketeer share shows army spread thin across many bot types.
THE EXAMPLE YOU ARE READING

NoobSlayer

31.0 OS · 10/09/2026

Open source match ↗

5 received units · includes a constructor
116 metal received · 17550 energy received

Allied construction assistance is unknown. Timings are observations, not a promise of solo reproducibility.

Typical milestones

Bot Lab0:24Middle 50%: 0:20–0:33 · n=2410
Advanced Metal Extractor9:46Middle 50%: 8:50–10:58 · n=1749

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