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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 · 1289 distinct matches · 127 players · 71% of Armada Suicide front games · team won 59% of 1527 · 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 1289 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 · 31 steps
    1. Mex
    2. Construction BotCon bot
    3. Wind
    4. TickTick ×3
    5. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    6. Mex
    7. Construction BotCon bot
    8. Mex
    9. LazarusLazarus ×3
    10. SentrySentry
    11. Construction BotCon bot
    12. RocketeerRocketeer
    13. Mex
    14. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    15. Wind
    16. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    17. SentrySentry
    18. Wind
    19. RocketeerRocketeer
    20. SentrySentry ×2
    21. RocketeerRocketeer
    22. BeamerBeamer
    23. Wind
    24. Mex
    25. RocketeerRocketeer
    26. Energy storage
    27. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    28. Construction BotCon bot
    29. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    30. LazarusLazarus
    31. RocketeerRocketeer ×4
  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 · 188 steps
    1. RocketeerRocketeer ×4
    2. Construction BotCon bot
    3. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    4. BeamerBeamer
    5. LazarusLazarus
    6. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    7. Mex
    8. RocketeerRocketeer
    9. SentrySentry
    10. Construction BotCon bot ×5
    11. Con turret
    12. Construction BotCon bot
    13. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:16 · typical 9:36
    14. TickTick
    15. RocketeerRocketeer ×6
    16. GauntletGauntletdone 9:39
    17. RocketeerRocketeer
    18. LazarusLazarus
    19. TickTick
    20. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    21. Mex
    22. Con turret
    23. RocketeerRocketeer
    24. Mex
    25. Con turret
    26. TickTick
    27. RocketeerRocketeer
    28. Wind
    29. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    30. Wind
    31. Mex
    32. Wind
    33. RocketeerRocketeer
    34. Con turret
    35. Wind
    36. Sneaky PeteSneaky Pete
    37. Converter
    38. Wind ×2
    39. RocketeerRocketeer
    40. Wind ×3
    41. Converter
    42. Con turret
    43. Wind
    44. RocketeerRocketeer
    45. Wind
    46. Con turret
    47. Wind ×2
    48. Construction BotCon bot
    49. Wind
    50. Mex
    51. Wind
    52. Converter
    53. Wind ×7
    54. Converter
    55. Wind
    56. Converter
    57. Con turret
    58. Wind
    59. Construction BotCon bot
    60. Wind ×8
    61. Converter
    62. Wind
    63. Construction BotCon bot
    64. Converter
    65. Wind ×10
    66. BeamerBeamer
    67. Mex
    68. Converter ×2
    69. Wind ×5
    70. BeamerBeamer
    71. Wind ×2
    72. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    73. LazarusLazarus
    74. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    75. Wind ×2
    76. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    77. Wind
    78. Converter ×2
    79. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    80. Converter
    81. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    82. Wind
    83. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    84. Mex
    85. Wind
    86. LazarusLazarus
    87. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    88. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    89. Wind ×2
    90. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    91. Wind ×2
    92. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    93. Wind ×2
    94. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    95. LazarusLazarus
    96. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    97. Converter
    98. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    99. Wind
    100. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    101. Wind
    102. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    103. Wind
    104. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    105. Con turret
    106. Wind
    107. Converter
    108. Wind ×2
    109. Mex
    110. Wind ×3
    111. Con turret
    112. Converter
    113. Wind ×12
    114. Converter
    115. Wind ×5
    116. Bot LabBot Labdone 13:01
    117. BeamerBeamer
    118. Wind ×5
    119. TickTick
    120. Wind
    121. TickTick
    122. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    123. Wind
    124. TickTick
    125. Wind
    126. TickTick
    127. Fortification WallFortification Wall
    128. Wind ×2
    129. TickTick
    130. Wind
    131. Fortification WallFortification Wall
    132. Converter ×2
    133. TickTick
    134. Fortification WallFortification Wall
    135. Wind
    136. TickTick
    137. Wind ×4
    138. Fortification WallFortification Wall ×2
    139. Wind
    140. TickTick
    141. Wind ×3
    142. Fortification WallFortification Wall
    143. Wind
    144. TickTick
    145. Converter ×2
    146. Wind
    147. TickTick
    148. Fortification WallFortification Wall
    149. TickTick
    150. Wind ×5
    151. TickTick
    152. Converter
    153. Wind
    154. Fortification WallFortification Wall
    155. TickTick
    156. Wind
    157. BeamerBeamer
    158. TickTick
    159. Wind
    160. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    161. Wind
    162. TickTick
    163. Wind
    164. Fortification WallFortification Wall
    165. Converter ×2
    166. TickTick
    167. Wind ×4
    168. TickTick
    169. Wind ×2
    170. PulsarPulsarnot finished by 15:00
    171. Wind ×2
    172. Con turret
    173. TickTick
    174. Wind ×3
    175. Converter
    176. TickTick
    177. Wind ×2
    178. Converter
    179. TickTick
    180. Con turret
    181. TickTick
    182. Wind
    183. TickTick
    184. Wind
    185. Con turret
    186. Wind
    187. TickTick
    188. Wind

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Xad's (44 OS, 28/09/2026); 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 7:31 · 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

1527 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0022600
2:0088800
3:002050179106
4:003161658496
5:00424314121026
6:00543322971789
7:00667031752710
8:00792040293619
9:00931747894495
10:001069754225316
11:001226558996054
12:001411464906830
13:001623070097536
14:001811476808373
15:002046683169249
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

43.6 OS · 28/09/2026

Open source match ↗

7 received units · includes a constructor
539 metal received · 50549 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=1520
Advanced Metal Extractor9:36Middle 50%: 8:41–10:48 · n=1126

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