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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 · 1326 distinct matches · 131 players · 71% of Armada Suicide front games · team won 59% of 1571 · 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 1326 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
    • Rocketeer17 Rocketeer
    • Tick2 Tick
    • Centurion1 Centurion
    Other
    • Radar Tower1 Radar Tower

    Some games also: con turret (35%) · pawn (33%)

    By 5:00 in all: 5 mex · 4 wind

    The example game in this phase · 51 steps
    1. Mex
    2. Bot LabBot Labfor Frontdone 0:26 · typical 0:20
    3. Windfor Front
    4. Construction BotCon botfor Front
    5. LazarusLazarus
    6. TickTick
    7. PawnPawnfor Front
    8. Mex
    9. PawnPawn ×2for Front
    10. LazarusLazarus
    11. Construction BotCon botfor Front
    12. Mex
    13. Construction BotCon botfor Front
    14. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    15. Windfor Front
    16. Mex
    17. RocketeerRocketeer
    18. SentrySentry
    19. RocketeerRocketeer
    20. Windfor Front
    21. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    22. Windfor Front
    23. SentrySentry
    24. RocketeerRocketeer
    25. SentrySentry
    26. RocketeerRocketeer
    27. SentrySentry
    28. LazarusLazarus
    29. Energy storagefor Front
    30. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    31. RocketeerRocketeer
    32. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×5
    33. RocketeerRocketeer
    34. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    35. Mex
    36. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    37. TickTick
    38. RocketeerRocketeer
    39. Windfor Front
    40. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    41. Windfor Front
    42. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    43. SentrySentry
    44. RocketeerRocketeer
    45. Windfor Front
    46. RocketeerRocketeer
    47. SentrySentry
    48. RocketeerRocketeer
    49. Windfor Front
    50. RocketeerRocketeer
    51. 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 (46%) · energy storage (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 · 88 steps
    1. SentrySentry
    2. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    3. TickTick
    4. RocketeerRocketeer
    5. TickTick
    6. SentrySentry
    7. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    8. TickTick
    9. RocketeerRocketeerfor Front
    10. SentrySentry
    11. RocketeerRocketeer
    12. TickTick
    13. RocketeerRocketeer
    14. TickTick
    15. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    16. SentrySentryfor Front
    17. LazarusLazarus ×3
    18. TickTick
    19. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    20. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexfor Frontdone 9:33 · typical 9:36
    21. RocketeerRocketeer
    22. Mex
    23. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    24. TickTick
    25. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    26. TickTick
    27. RocketeerRocketeer
    28. SentrySentry
    29. Construction BotCon botfor Front
    30. RocketeerRocketeer
    31. SentrySentry
    32. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    33. Construction BotCon bot
    34. LazarusLazarus
    35. TickTick
    36. PawnPawn
    37. TickTick
    38. PawnPawn ×3
    39. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    40. PawnPawn
    41. SentrySentry
    42. Windfor Front
    43. PawnPawn
    44. Mex
    45. PawnPawn
    46. Windfor Front
    47. PawnPawn ×2
    48. TickTick
    49. PawnPawn
    50. Windfor Front
    51. SentrySentry
    52. PawnPawn
    53. Windfor Front
    54. PawnPawn
    55. Windfor Front
    56. PawnPawn
    57. TickTick
    58. SentrySentry
    59. Windfor Front
    60. PawnPawn ×2
    61. Windfor Front
    62. PawnPawn
    63. Windfor Front
    64. TickTick ×4
    65. Windfor Front
    66. TickTick ×3
    67. Windfor Front
    68. TickTick ×3
    69. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexfor Front
    70. Windfor Front
    71. TickTick ×3
    72. Windfor Front
    73. TickTick ×3
    74. Windfor Front
    75. PawnPawnfor Front
    76. TickTickfor Front
    77. Windfor Front
    78. PawnPawn
    79. TickTick
    80. PawnPawn
    81. Windfor Front
    82. TickTick
    83. PawnPawn
    84. TickTick
    85. PawnPawnfor Front
    86. TickTickfor Front
    87. PawnPawnfor Front
    88. TickTickfor Front

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Xad's (41 OS, 01/10/2026); 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

1571 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0022600
2:0088900
3:002049180106
4:003158659496
5:00424314191026
6:00543522981789
7:00667231662707
8:00793040293617
9:00931747894497
10:001070654215319
11:001226558996054
12:001410765156819
13:001623170197525
14:001811476998340
15:002044183169228
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

41.2 OS · 01/10/2026

Open source match ↗

6 received units · includes a constructor
142 metal received · 28286 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=1564
Advanced Metal Extractor9:36Middle 50%: 8:42–10:48 · n=1162

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