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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 · 33 steps
    1. Mex
    2. TickTick
    3. Construction BotCon bot
    4. Mex
    5. SentrySentry
    6. Construction BotCon bot
    7. Mex
    8. CenturionCenturion
    9. SentrySentry
    10. Construction BotCon bot
    11. Mex
    12. LazarusLazarus
    13. Mex
    14. RocketeerRocketeer
    15. SentrySentry
    16. Wind
    17. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    18. SentrySentry
    19. RocketeerRocketeer
    20. SentrySentry
    21. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    22. CenturionCenturion
    23. SentrySentry
    24. RocketeerRocketeer
    25. SentrySentry
    26. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    27. SentrySentry
    28. RocketeerRocketeer
    29. LazarusLazarus
    30. Construction BotCon bot
    31. RocketeerRocketeer ×10
    32. Wind
    33. LazarusLazarus
  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 · 83 steps
    1. Construction BotCon bot
    2. Wind
    3. CenturionCenturion ×2
    4. Wind
    5. LazarusLazarus
    6. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    7. Wind
    8. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    9. Construction BotCon bot
    10. Wind
    11. RocketeerRocketeer
    12. Construction BotCon bot
    13. RocketeerRocketeer
    14. Wind
    15. PawnPawn
    16. RocketeerRocketeer
    17. Wind
    18. PawnPawn ×2
    19. Con turret
    20. RocketeerRocketeer
    21. Wind
    22. PawnPawn ×2
    23. Wind
    24. RocketeerRocketeer
    25. PawnPawn
    26. Energy storage
    27. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    28. CenturionCenturion
    29. Wind
    30. RocketeerRocketeer
    31. Con turret
    32. Wind
    33. RocketeerRocketeer
    34. CenturionCenturion
    35. GauntletGauntletdone 8:35
    36. TickTick
    37. Wind ×3
    38. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 10:02 · typical 9:36
    39. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 9:08
    40. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    41. Wind
    42. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×4
    43. Wind
    44. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    45. BlitzBlitz
    46. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×4
    47. Con turret
    48. BeamerBeamer
    49. BlitzBlitz
    50. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    51. BlitzBlitz
    52. Wind
    53. NettleNettle
    54. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    55. BlitzBlitz
    56. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    57. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    58. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    59. BlitzBlitz
    60. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×3
    61. BlitzBlitz
    62. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    63. Con turret
    64. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    65. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    66. BlitzBlitz
    67. Wind
    68. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 11:53
    69. BlitzBlitz
    70. Wind
    71. Con turret
    72. StoutStout ×2
    73. Wind
    74. StoutStout
    75. Wind ×2
    76. StoutStout
    77. Wind ×2
    78. StoutStout
    79. Wind ×2
    80. StoutStout
    81. Wind
    82. Converter ×3
    83. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×3

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is watermeloans's (59 OS, 01/09/2026); 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

watermeloans

59.5 OS · 01/09/2026

Open source match ↗

9 received units · includes a constructor
561 metal received · 41792 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

Played most by

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