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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 · 43 steps
    1. Mexfor Front
    2. Bot LabBot Labfor Frontdone 0:33 · typical 0:20
    3. TickTick
    4. Windfor Front
    5. Construction BotCon bot ×2for Front
    6. Windfor Front
    7. Mexfor Front
    8. LazarusLazarus
    9. SentrySentryfor Front
    10. LazarusLazarus
    11. CenturionCenturion
    12. Mex
    13. Construction BotCon botfor Front
    14. Construction BotCon bot
    15. Mex
    16. RocketeerRocketeer
    17. SentrySentry
    18. RocketeerRocketeer
    19. Windfor Front
    20. SentrySentry
    21. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    22. Windfor Front
    23. SentrySentry
    24. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    25. Windfor Front
    26. SentrySentry
    27. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    28. BeamerBeamer
    29. RocketeerRocketeer
    30. Windfor Front
    31. RocketeerRocketeer ×2for Front
    32. Windfor Front
    33. RocketeerRocketeer ×2for Front
    34. RocketeerRocketeer
    35. Windfor Front
    36. RocketeerRocketeerfor Front
    37. RocketeerRocketeer
    38. Windfor Front
    39. RocketeerRocketeer
    40. RocketeerRocketeerfor Front
    41. Windfor Front
    42. Radar TowerRadar Towerfor Front
    43. RocketeerRocketeer
  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 · 36 steps
    1. RocketeerRocketeerfor Front
    2. Windfor Front
    3. RocketeerRocketeer
    4. Windfor Front
    5. RocketeerRocketeer
    6. Construction BotCon bot ×2for Front
    7. Windfor Front
    8. Construction BotCon botfor Front
    9. Windfor Front
    10. RocketeerRocketeer
    11. Con turret
    12. PawnPawn
    13. Windfor Front
    14. Con turretfor Front
    15. SentrySentry
    16. Windfor Front
    17. Energy storagefor Front
    18. Wind ×3for Front
    19. Construction BotCon botfor Front
    20. Windfor Front
    21. Converterfor Front
    22. LazarusLazarus
    23. Converterfor Front
    24. Windfor Front
    25. LazarusLazarus
    26. Converterfor Front
    27. LazarusLazarus
    28. Windfor Front
    29. Converterfor Front
    30. LazarusLazarus
    31. Windfor Front
    32. Converter ×2for Front
    33. Windfor Front
    34. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexfor Frontdone 10:07 · typical 9:37
    35. Con turretfor Front
    36. Windfor Front

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is PRO_Rerory's (50 OS, 12/09/2026); 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

PRO_Rerory

50.0 OS · 12/09/2026

Open source match ↗

6 received units · includes a constructor
17 metal received · 10581 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

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