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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 · 1291 distinct matches · 127 players · 71% of Armada Suicide front games · team won 59% of 1529 · 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 1291 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 · 21 steps
    1. Mex
    2. TickTick ×2
    3. Wind
    4. LazarusLazarus
    5. Wind
    6. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    7. Mex
    8. Construction BotCon bot
    9. SentrySentry
    10. CenturionCenturion
    11. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    12. Mex
    13. BeamerBeamer
    14. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    15. Mex
    16. RocketeerRocketeer ×7
    17. Construction BotCon bot
    18. Converter
    19. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    20. LazarusLazarus ×2
    21. 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 · 67 steps
    1. RocketeerRocketeer ×8
    2. Wind ×2
    3. LazarusLazarus
    4. Wind ×2
    5. Con turret
    6. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    7. Con turret
    8. Wind
    9. MaceMace
    10. Wind
    11. MaceMace
    12. Wind
    13. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexnot finished by 15:00 · typical 9:36
    14. MaceMace ×2
    15. Wind ×2
    16. MaceMace
    17. LazarusLazarus ×2
    18. AggravatorAggravator
    19. RocketeerRocketeer
    20. LazarusLazarus
    21. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    22. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    23. CenturionCenturion
    24. Wind
    25. AggravatorAggravator ×2
    26. Construction BotCon bot
    27. Wind ×2
    28. TickTick
    29. Construction BotCon bot
    30. TickTick
    31. Construction BotCon bot
    32. TickTick ×8
    33. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    34. TickTick
    35. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    36. TickTick
    37. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    38. TickTick
    39. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    40. TickTick
    41. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    42. TickTick ×2
    43. Mex
    44. TickTick
    45. StarlightStarlightdone 11:38
    46. TickTick ×20
    47. Con turret
    48. TickTick ×7
    49. BeamerBeamer
    50. TickTick ×6
    51. Con turret
    52. TickTick ×5
    53. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    54. TickTick ×2
    55. Wind
    56. TickTick ×2
    57. Wind
    58. TickTick ×2
    59. BeamerBeamer
    60. Wind
    61. TickTick ×2
    62. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    63. Wind
    64. TickTick ×3
    65. Wind
    66. TickTick
    67. Wind

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is ManBearPig_'s (39 OS, 29/09/2026); 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 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

1529 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0022600
2:0088800
3:002051180106
4:003161658496
5:00424314131026
6:00543322981789
7:00667031752710
8:00792040313619
9:00931747964495
10:001069954265316
11:001226559036054
12:001411365126830
13:001622270137536
14:001810976968373
15:002046683299249
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

ManBearPig_

39.0 OS · 29/09/2026

Open source match ↗

22 received units · includes a constructor
239 metal received · 17602 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=1522
Advanced Metal Extractor9:36Middle 50%: 8:41–10:48 · n=1128

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