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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 · 2028 distinct matches · 233 players · 72% of Armada Suicide front games · team won 59% of 2406 · 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 2028 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 · 24 steps
    1. Mex
    2. TickTick ×4
    3. LazarusLazarus ×2
    4. CenturionCenturion ×2
    5. Construction BotCon bot
    6. Mex ×2
    7. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    8. PawnPawn ×4
    9. Mex
    10. PawnPawn
    11. Construction BotCon bot
    12. Mex
    13. RocketeerRocketeer
    14. Wind
    15. Mex
    16. RocketeerRocketeer
    17. Wind
    18. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    19. Wind
    20. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    21. Wind
    22. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    23. Wind
    24. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
  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 (42%) · 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 · 72 steps
    1. RocketeerRocketeer
    2. Wind
    3. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    4. Wind
    5. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    6. Wind
    7. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    8. Mex
    9. LazarusLazarus
    10. Wind
    11. LazarusLazarus ×2
    12. Wind
    13. RocketeerRocketeer ×4
    14. Wind
    15. RocketeerRocketeer ×8
    16. Wind
    17. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    18. Wind
    19. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    20. Wind
    21. RocketeerRocketeer ×5
    22. Wind
    23. RocketeerRocketeer ×16
    24. Con turret
    25. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    26. LazarusLazarus
    27. Con turret
    28. LazarusLazarus
    29. Con turret ×2
    30. LazarusLazarus ×2
    31. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 12:06 · typical 9:46
    32. LazarusLazarus
    33. TickTick ×10
    34. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    35. TickTick ×9
    36. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    37. TickTick ×16
    38. PawnPawn ×2
    39. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    40. PawnPawn
    41. Wind
    42. PawnPawn ×4
    43. Wind
    44. PawnPawn
    45. Wind
    46. PawnPawn
    47. Wind ×2
    48. PawnPawn
    49. Wind
    50. PawnPawn
    51. Wind
    52. PawnPawn
    53. Wind
    54. PawnPawn
    55. Wind
    56. PawnPawn
    57. Wind
    58. PawnPawn
    59. Wind ×2
    60. PawnPawn ×2
    61. Wind
    62. PawnPawn
    63. Wind
    64. PawnPawn
    65. Wind
    66. PawnPawn
    67. Wind
    68. PawnPawn
    69. Wind ×2
    70. PawnPawn
    71. Wind
    72. PawnPawn ×2

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Private_Gator's (31 OS, 13/09/2026); 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 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

2406 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0023000
2:0088700
3:002008184130
4:003109645501
5:00418413531000
6:00534721831707
7:00654330512589
8:00776039363499
9:00904646894375
10:001041253125161
11:001188958585966
12:001357864076686
13:001539668767455
14:001729675048213
15:001925281069007
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

Private_Gator

31.0 OS · 13/09/2026

Open source match ↗

5 received units · includes a constructor
1141 metal received · 28245 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=2398
Advanced Metal Extractor9:46Middle 50%: 8:50–10:58 · n=1738

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