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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 · 43 steps
    1. Mex
    2. TickTick ×2
    3. Wind
    4. TickTick ×3
    5. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    6. Mex
    7. Construction BotCon bot
    8. LazarusLazarus
    9. Mex ×2
    10. LazarusLazarus
    11. PawnPawn
    12. SentrySentry
    13. Wind
    14. PawnPawn
    15. SentrySentry
    16. PawnPawn
    17. RocketeerRocketeer
    18. Wind
    19. RocketeerRocketeer
    20. SentrySentry
    21. RocketeerRocketeer
    22. Mex
    23. RocketeerRocketeer
    24. Wind
    25. RocketeerRocketeer
    26. SentrySentry
    27. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    28. Energy storage
    29. SentrySentry
    30. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    31. BeholderBeholder ×4
    32. Construction BotCon bot
    33. TickTick
    34. RocketeerRocketeer
    35. SentrySentry
    36. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    37. SentrySentry
    38. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    39. TickTick
    40. SentrySentry
    41. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    42. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    43. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
  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 · 49 steps
    1. Construction BotCon bot
    2. SentrySentry
    3. RocketeerRocketeer
    4. LazarusLazarus
    5. SentrySentry
    6. PawnPawn ×4
    7. Construction BotCon bot
    8. PawnPawn ×8
    9. Mex
    10. PawnPawn ×3
    11. SentrySentry
    12. TickTick
    13. LazarusLazarus
    14. RocketeerRocketeer
    15. SentrySentry
    16. TickTick
    17. SentrySentry
    18. CenturionCenturion
    19. Mex
    20. CenturionCenturion ×2
    21. TickTick
    22. CenturionCenturion
    23. Con turret
    24. PawnPawn
    25. LazarusLazarus
    26. GauntletGauntletdone 12:33
    27. CenturionCenturion
    28. Con turret
    29. TickTick
    30. CenturionCenturion
    31. NettleNettle
    32. SentrySentry ×3
    33. TickTick ×11
    34. Con turret
    35. TickTick ×2
    36. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 13:41 · typical 9:36
    37. TickTick ×12
    38. Mex
    39. Wind ×3
    40. NettleNettle
    41. Mex
    42. Wind
    43. SentrySentry
    44. Converter
    45. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    46. SentrySentry
    47. Wind ×5
    48. Mex
    49. Converter

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Xad's (44 OS, 27/09/2026); 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

Xad

44.2 OS · 27/09/2026

Open source match ↗

2 received units · includes a constructor
151 metal received · 84522 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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