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Suicide front / Armada / Factory first / OBSERVED BUILD

Standard suicide front

Bot Lab first into Rocketeer/Centurion/Pawn to contest the middle early and hold until T2 arrives, the role's baseline play.

Usually lab first (62%)

#rush · 1185 distinct matches · 125 players · 71% of Armada Suicide front games · team won 60% of 1411 · 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 1185 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 (37%)

  2. 2

    Bot Lab to 5:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor5Mex
    • Wind Turbine4Wind
    Builders
    • Construction Bot3 Con bot
    • Lazarus2 Lazarus
    Army
    • Sentry4 Sentry
    • Rocketeer18 Rocketeer
    • Tick2 Tick
    • Centurion1 Centurion
    Other
    • Radar Tower1 Radar Tower

    Some games also: con turret (35%) · pawn (31%)

    By 5:00 in all: 5 mex · 5 wind

    The example game in this phase · 44 steps
    1. Mex
    2. Construction BotCon bot
    3. Wind
    4. SentrySentry
    5. Construction BotCon bot
    6. Mex
    7. PawnPawn
    8. SentrySentry
    9. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    10. LazarusLazarus
    11. Construction BotCon bot
    12. SentrySentry
    13. LazarusLazarus
    14. SentrySentry
    15. Mex
    16. SentrySentry
    17. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    18. Mex
    19. TickTick
    20. Mex
    21. RocketeerRocketeer
    22. SentrySentry
    23. RocketeerRocketeer
    24. TickTick
    25. RocketeerRocketeer
    26. Wind
    27. SentrySentry
    28. RocketeerRocketeer
    29. SentrySentry
    30. RocketeerRocketeer
    31. SentrySentry
    32. Wind
    33. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    34. Wind
    35. RocketeerRocketeer
    36. LazarusLazarus
    37. RocketeerRocketeer
    38. Energy storage
    39. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    40. TickTick
    41. RocketeerRocketeer
    42. SentrySentry
    43. RocketeerRocketeer ×4
    44. SentrySentry
  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 (48%) · Radar Tower (47%) · energy storage (46%) · centurion (45%) · Beamer (38%)

    By 10:00 in all: 6 mex · 23 wind · 1 energy storage · 3 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 39 steps
    1. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    2. LazarusLazarus
    3. SentrySentry
    4. RocketeerRocketeer ×4
    5. SentrySentry
    6. RocketeerRocketeer
    7. TickTick
    8. RocketeerRocketeer ×5
    9. TickTick
    10. RocketeerRocketeer
    11. LazarusLazarus
    12. RocketeerRocketeer
    13. PawnPawn
    14. CenturionCenturion
    15. TickTick
    16. CenturionCenturion
    17. TickTick
    18. CenturionCenturion ×2
    19. NettleNettle
    20. LazarusLazarus
    21. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    22. CrossbowCrossbow ×2
    23. CenturionCenturion
    24. TickTick ×5
    25. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 10:55 · typical 9:37
    26. TickTick ×4
    27. CenturionCenturion
    28. PawnPawn
    29. LazarusLazarus ×2
    30. Mex
    31. PawnPawn ×3
    32. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex ×2
    33. RattlesnakeRattlesnakedone 13:16
    34. Con turret
    35. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    36. Con turret ×2
    37. Wind
    38. Bot LabBot Labdone 14:50
    39. Wind ×3

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Xad's (46 OS, 24/09/2026); 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 58% 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

1411 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0022600
2:0088900
3:002056172106
4:003161660486
5:00423614131020
6:00543023271785
7:00666131792732
8:00791040353631
9:00929848164516
10:001068854265336
11:001224158986080
12:001402465176842
13:001604270137523
14:001796976808336
15:002029783029228
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

46.0 OS · 24/09/2026

Open source match ↗

5 received units · includes a constructor
18 metal received · 31526 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=1405
Advanced Metal Extractor9:37Middle 50%: 8:41–10:48 · n=1035

Played most by

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