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Standard suicide front

Armada Suicide front build order · Supreme Isthmus

The role's standard play: bot lab first, Rocketeer/Centurion/Pawn based force pushes into the middle to contest and hold it until T2 arrives.

Usually lab first (63%)

#rush #push · 1370 distinct matches · 134 players · 71% of Armada Suicide front games · team won 59% of 1622 · 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 1370 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 (34%)

    By 5:00 in all: 5 mex · 4 wind

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

    5:00 to 10:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor1Mex
    • Wind Turbine16Wind
    Builders
    • Construction Turret2 Con turret
    • Lazarus2 Lazarus
    • Construction Bot1 Con bot
    Army
    • Sentry1 Sentry
    • Rocketeer8 Rocketeer
    • Pawn1 Pawn

    Some games also: tick (48%) · Radar Tower (46%) · energy storage (46%) · centurion (45%) · Beamer (39%)

    By 10:00 in all: 6 mex · 22 wind · 1 energy storage · 3 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 93 steps
    1. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    2. SentrySentry
    3. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    4. BeamerBeamer
    5. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    6. Con turret
    7. Sneaky PeteSneaky Pete
    8. SentrySentry
    9. RocketeerRocketeer
    10. TickTick
    11. Wind
    12. TickTick ×3
    13. Wind
    14. TickTick ×4
    15. Wind
    16. TickTick ×2
    17. Con turret
    18. TickTick ×2
    19. Bot LabBot Labdone 8:29
    20. TickTick
    21. Wind
    22. TickTick
    23. PawnPawn
    24. TickTick
    25. PawnPawn ×2
    26. Wind
    27. PawnPawn
    28. TickTick
    29. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:54 · typical 9:37
    30. PawnPawn ×2
    31. Wind ×5
    32. Metal storage
    33. Wind
    34. TickTick
    35. Wind
    36. PawnPawn
    37. Wind ×2
    38. TickTick
    39. Construction BotCon bot
    40. Wind
    41. PawnPawn
    42. Wind
    43. PawnPawn
    44. Wind
    45. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    46. Wind ×2
    47. Solar ×2
    48. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    49. Construction BotCon bot
    50. PawnPawn
    51. GauntletGauntletdone 12:11
    52. Construction BotCon bot
    53. Solar
    54. PawnPawn
    55. Con turret
    56. PawnPawn
    57. Construction BotCon bot
    58. PawnPawn
    59. AnemoneAnemone
    60. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    61. PawnPawn
    62. LazarusLazarus
    63. PawnPawn
    64. LazarusLazarus
    65. PawnPawn
    66. AnemoneAnemone
    67. LazarusLazarus
    68. PawnPawn
    69. Wind
    70. Pit BullPit Bull
    71. Wind
    72. Energy storage
    73. Wind ×2
    74. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    75. Wind
    76. PawnPawn
    77. Energy storage
    78. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    79. Wind
    80. PawnPawn ×2
    81. Fusion ReactorFusionnot finished by 15:00
    82. Wind
    83. PawnPawn ×2
    84. Wind
    85. Con turret
    86. PawnPawn
    87. Wind
    88. Con turret
    89. PawnPawn
    90. Wind
    91. PawnPawn
    92. Wind
    93. Con turret

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is PlatinumBlonde's (59 OS, 02/10/2026); 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 7:31 · 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

1622 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0022500
2:0088800
3:002046182106
4:003153660497
5:00424214231017
6:00543423021780
7:00667131742707
8:00792440303620
9:00928547894504
10:001067154195322
11:001222558976059
12:001407665136804
13:001614670297522
14:001797976778330
15:002028882939186
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

PlatinumBlonde

59.1 OS · 02/10/2026

Open source match ↗

6 received units · includes a constructor
392 metal received · 36023 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=1615
Advanced Metal Extractor9:37Middle 50%: 8:42–10:48 · n=1197

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