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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 · 2013 distinct matches · 230 players · 72% of Armada Suicide front games · team won 59% of 2387 · 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 2013 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 ~0:21, 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 · 39 steps
    1. Mex
    2. Construction BotCon bot
    3. LazarusLazarus
    4. Mex
    5. LazarusLazarus
    6. PawnPawn ×2for Front
    7. PawnPawn
    8. PawnPawn ×3for Front
    9. PawnPawn ×4
    10. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    11. RocketeerRocketeer
    12. Mex
    13. RocketeerRocketeer
    14. MaceMace
    15. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    16. MaceMace
    17. LazarusLazarus
    18. RocketeerRocketeer
    19. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    20. Con turret
    21. RocketeerRocketeer
    22. MaceMace
    23. SentrySentry ×2
    24. Mex
    25. RocketeerRocketeer
    26. Wind
    27. SentrySentry
    28. RocketeerRocketeer
    29. Wind
    30. SentrySentry
    31. Energy storage
    32. Wind
    33. MaceMace
    34. LazarusLazarus
    35. Wind
    36. LazarusLazarus
    37. Wind
    38. LazarusLazarus ×2
    39. Wind
  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 (43%) · 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 · 124 steps
    1. MaceMace
    2. Converter
    3. Wind
    4. LazarusLazarus
    5. RocketeerRocketeer
    6. Wind
    7. RocketeerRocketeer
    8. Converter
    9. MaceMace
    10. Wind
    11. SentrySentry
    12. LazarusLazarus
    13. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    14. Wind
    15. LazarusLazarus
    16. SentrySentry
    17. Wind
    18. RocketeerRocketeer
    19. Converter
    20. Wind
    21. RocketeerRocketeer
    22. LazarusLazarus
    23. Wind
    24. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    25. Wind
    26. Converter
    27. LazarusLazarus
    28. Wind
    29. Construction BotCon bot
    30. Wind
    31. RocketeerRocketeer
    32. Wind
    33. RocketeerRocketeer
    34. Converter
    35. LazarusLazarus
    36. Wind
    37. RocketeerRocketeer
    38. Wind
    39. RocketeerRocketeer
    40. LazarusLazarus
    41. Wind
    42. Converter
    43. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    44. Wind
    45. LazarusLazarus
    46. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    47. RocketeerRocketeer
    48. ThugThug
    49. Wind
    50. RocketeerRocketeer
    51. ThugThug
    52. RocketeerRocketeer
    53. ThugThug
    54. SentrySentry
    55. LazarusLazarus
    56. RocketeerRocketeer
    57. Wind
    58. RocketeerRocketeer
    59. ThugThug
    60. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    61. ThugThug
    62. SentrySentry
    63. RocketeerRocketeer
    64. Wind
    65. ThugThug
    66. RocketeerRocketeer
    67. Mex
    68. Wind
    69. LazarusLazarus
    70. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    71. Wind
    72. RocketeerRocketeer ×4
    73. Wind
    74. LazarusLazarus
    75. RocketeerRocketeer
    76. Wind
    77. RocketeerRocketeer
    78. LazarusLazarus
    79. Wind
    80. PawnPawn ×2
    81. Wind
    82. PawnPawn ×3
    83. Con turret
    84. PawnPawn ×2
    85. Wind
    86. PawnPawn ×3
    87. Wind
    88. PawnPawn ×3
    89. Wind
    90. PawnPawn
    91. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    92. Wind
    93. LazarusLazarus
    94. MaceMace
    95. RocketeerRocketeer
    96. Wind
    97. RocketeerRocketeer
    98. LazarusLazarus
    99. Wind
    100. MaceMace
    101. OverwatchOverwatch
    102. RocketeerRocketeer
    103. Wind
    104. TickTick
    105. PawnPawn ×7
    106. Wind
    107. PawnPawn
    108. RocketeerRocketeer
    109. TickTick ×3
    110. Wind
    111. TickTick ×4
    112. Wind
    113. TickTick ×2
    114. Bot LabBot Labdone 12:35
    115. Bot LabEat Bot Labreclaimed for its metal
    116. Wind
    117. BeamerBeamer ×2
    118. Mex ×3
    119. StarlightStarlightdone 14:06
    120. Bot LabBot Labnot finished by 15:00
    121. Bot LabEat Bot Labreclaimed for its metal
    122. Bot LabBot Labdone 14:34
    123. Construction BotCon bot
    124. Energy storage

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is NoobSlayer's (30 OS, 15/08/2026); 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

2387 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0023000
2:0088700
3:002009184130
4:003110645501
5:00418413561000
6:00534721831708
7:00653930512597
8:00776039383503
9:00904646934376
10:001041853145163
11:001189458575965
12:001360664066686
13:001541268767439
14:001730675038212
15:001929281098997
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

NoobSlayer

30.2 OS · 15/08/2026

Open source match ↗

14 received units · includes a constructor
192 metal received · 12904 energy received

Allied construction assistance is unknown. Timings are observations, not a promise of solo reproducibility.

Typical milestones

Bot Lab0:21Middle 50%: 0:20–0:33 · n=2379
Advanced Metal Extractor9:46Middle 50%: 8:50–10:58 · n=1726

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