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

0:03Open with mex and wind, drop Bot Lab immediately.
1:39Push out first "Centurion" as Pond's boost lands.
2:04Send "Rocketeer", "Centurion", "Pawn" mix to contest middle.
by 3:19Add Dragon's Teeth and Sentries to hold the line.
9:41Get Advanced Metal Extractor up as T2 nears.

Phase by phase

TYPICAL OF ITS 1185 GAMES

1
20:03
35:00

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
Bot Lab first
0:00 – 0:03
Order
1. Bot Lab ~0:03done ~0:20, middle half 0:20–0:33
Some games also: mex (37%)
2
Bot Lab to 5:00
0:03 – 5:00
Economy
- 5Mex
- 4Wind
Builders
- 3 Con bot
- 2 Lazarus
Army
- 4 Sentry
- 18 Rocketeer
- 2 Tick
- 1 Centurion
Other
- 1 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 · 29 steps
1. 0:49Tick ×3
2. 0:58Lazarus ×2
3. 1:14Centurion
4. 1:27Con bot ×2
5. 1:53Rocketeer
6. 1:54Mex
7. 2:03Radar Tower
8. 2:04Rocketeer
9. 2:06Mex
10. 2:10Sentry
11. 2:16Rocketeer ×3
12. 2:38Wind
13. 2:40Mex
14. 2:46Rocketeer ×3
15. 3:07Wind
16. 3:15Rocketeer ×2
17. 3:35Con bot
18. 3:36Wind
19. 3:45Con turret
20. 3:54Con bot
21. 4:11Lazarus
22. 4:15Wind
23. 4:23Lazarus
24. 4:36Tick ×2
25. 4:43Wind
26. 4:45Tick ×3
27. 4:55Energy storage
28. 4:56Con turret
29. 4:56Tick
3
5:00 to 10:00
5:00 – 10:00
Economy
- 1Mex
- 17Wind
Builders
- 2 Con turret
- 2 Lazarus
- 1 Con bot
Army
- 1 Sentry
- 8 Rocketeer
- 1 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 · 192 steps
1. 5:01Tick ×2
2. 5:09Centurion
3. 5:10Wind
4. 5:13Tick
5. 5:15Energy storage
6. 5:17Tick
7. 5:22Rocketeer
8. 5:24Thug
9. 5:30Wind
10. 5:31Rocketeer
11. 5:33Con turret
12. 5:41Rocketeer
13. 5:51Wind
14. 5:51Rocketeer ×4
15. 6:07Mex
16. 6:11Wind
17. 6:11Rocketeer ×3
18. 6:23Wind
19. 6:24Centurion
20. 6:25T2 mexdone 6:54 · typical 9:37
21. 6:29Mex
22. 6:32Centurion
23. 6:34Wind ×3
24. 6:59T2 mex
25. 7:07Wind
26. 7:12Tick
27. 7:15Sentry
28. 7:16Tick
29. 7:19Wind
30. 7:21Tick
31. 7:24Beamer
32. 7:25Tick
33. 7:27T2 mex
34. 7:27Tick
35. 7:30Wind
36. 7:32Tick
37. 7:32Sneaky Pete
38. 7:37Tick
39. 7:41Wind
40. 7:43Sneaky Pete
41. 7:43Tick ×2
42. 7:51Wind
43. 7:54Tick
44. 8:02Wind
45. 8:02Lazarus
46. 8:12Wind
47. 8:15T2 mex
48. 8:23Wind
49. 8:25Lazarus
50. 8:25Con turret
51. 8:33Wind
52. 8:36Con turret ×2
53. 8:44Lazarus
54. 8:45Wind
55. 8:48Con turret
56. 8:54Radar Tower
57. 8:55Wind
58. 9:05Lazarus
59. 9:06Wind ×2
60. 9:17Con turret
61. 9:27Wind
62. 9:33Lazarus
63. 9:34Wind ×9
64. 9:51Dragon's Teeth
65. 9:52Wind
66. 9:52Dragon's Teeth ×2
67. 9:53Tick
68. 9:54Wind
69. 9:54Dragon's Teeth
70. 9:55Tick
71. 9:56T2 mex
72. 9:56Wind
73. 9:56Dragon's Teeth
74. 9:57Tick ×2
75. 9:59Wind
76. 10:00Dragon's Teeth
77. 10:00Tick ×2
78. 10:04Dragon's Teeth
79. 10:04Wind ×3
80. 10:08Dragon's Teeth
81. 10:09Wind
82. 10:09Centurion
83. 10:10Wind ×2
84. 10:12Dragon's Teeth
85. 10:14Centurion
86. 10:16Wind
87. 10:19Mace
88. 10:19Centurion
89. 10:20Wind
90. 10:22Mace
91. 10:24Wind
92. 10:24Centurion ×2
93. 10:29Wind ×2
94. 10:33Rattlesnakedone 11:12
95. 10:34Wind ×9
96. 11:12Fortification Wall
97. 11:12Con bot
98. 11:15Fortification Wall ×5
99. 11:29Tick ×5
100. 11:35Fortification Wall
101. 11:36Tick ×3
102. 11:40Wind
103. 11:40Fortification Wall
104. 11:41Tick
105. 11:42Juno
106. 11:42Fortification Wall
107. 11:43Tick
108. 11:44Fortification Wall
109. 11:48Tick
110. 11:51Pulsardone 13:20
111. 11:52Wind
112. 11:54Tick ×2
113. 12:05Converter
114. 12:05Wind
115. 12:09Tick ×6
116. 12:17Wind
117. 12:17Dragon's Teeth
118. 12:18Tick ×2
119. 12:20Dragon's Teeth
120. 12:21Tick ×2
121. 12:24Dragon's Teeth
122. 12:24Tick ×2
123. 12:26Wind
124. 12:27Tick
125. 12:27Dragon's Teeth
126. 12:28Wind
127. 12:29Tick
128. 12:29Wind
129. 12:30Tick ×2
130. 12:33Wind
131. 12:33Dragon's Teeth
132. 12:34Tick ×2
133. 12:36Wind
134. 12:37Tick
135. 12:38Converter
136. 12:38Wind ×2
137. 12:40Tick
138. 12:41Dragon's Teeth
139. 12:41Tick ×2
140. 12:44Dragon's Teeth
141. 12:45Wind
142. 12:45Tick ×3
143. 12:48Wind ×2
144. 12:50Tick ×2
145. 12:51Dragon's Teeth
146. 12:55Tick
147. 12:57Dragon's Teeth
148. 12:57Wind
149. 12:57Tick
150. 12:59Wind
151. 12:59Tick
152. 13:00Dragon's Teeth
153. 13:01Wind
154. 13:02Tick
155. 13:04Dragon's Teeth
156. 13:04Tick ×4
157. 13:09Wind
158. 13:10Tick
159. 13:10Converter
160. 13:11Wind
161. 13:11Tick
162. 13:13Dragon's Teeth
163. 13:13Tick ×2
164. 13:15Wind
165. 13:16Tick
166. 13:17Wind
167. 13:17Tick ×2
168. 13:20Wind
169. 13:21Dragon's Teeth
170. 13:21Tick ×2
171. 13:23Fusiondone 14:16
172. 13:24Tick
173. 13:28Dragon's Teeth
174. 13:30Tick
175. 13:30Wind
176. 13:34Dragon's Teeth ×2
177. 13:41Wind
178. 13:43Dragon's Teeth
179. 13:44Converter
180. 13:49Dragon's Teeth
181. 13:53Wind ×3
182. 14:13Dragon's Teeth ×2
183. 14:17Fusion
184. 14:17Converter
185. 14:23Wind
186. 14:33Chainsaw
187. 14:33Wind ×2
188. 14:51Converter
189. 14:51Advanced Bot Labnot finished by 15:00
190. 14:53Tick
191. 14:57Wind
192. 14:57Tick

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Espera's (38 OS, 24/09/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

Nothing regular.

You get

4 Tidal from Pondfirst at 0:10 · in 69% of games
1 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

By	Metal produced: This build	Enemy metal destroyed: This build	Own metal lost: This build
1:00	226	0	0
2:00	889	0	0
3:00	2056	172	106
4:00	3161	660	486
5:00	4236	1413	1020
6:00	5430	2327	1785
7:00	6661	3179	2732
8:00	7910	4035	3631
9:00	9298	4816	4516
10:00	10688	5426	5336
11:00	12241	5898	6080
12:00	14024	6517	6842
13:00	16042	7013	7523
14:00	17969	7680	8336
15:00	20297	8302	9228

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

Espera

37.5 OS · 24/09/2026

Open source match ↗

6 received units · includes a constructor
137 metal received · 77811 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

Played most by

_X_252games of this build PlatinumBlonde166games of this build Xad109games of this build Immort62games of this build watermeloans58games of this build

Supporting games

Pick a game to read and play it above.

Xad25/09/2026 · 46 OS↗Immort25/09/2026 · 55 OS↗Xad25/09/2026 · 46 OS↗Boozha25/09/2026 · 36 OS↗PlatinumBlonde25/09/2026 · 59 OS↗PlatinumBlonde25/09/2026 · 59 OS↗Boozha25/09/2026 · 36 OS↗Espera25/09/2026 · 38 OS↗Espera24/09/2026 · 38 OS↗

32 more of 1403, the most recent

Supreme Isthmus v2.1
Beyond All Reason test-31402-247bb8c
Naval balance tweaks on

Standard suicide front

Phase by phase

Bot Lab first

Bot Lab to 5:00

5:00 to 10:00

Team trades

You hand over

You get

How it plays out

Metal produced

Enemy metal destroyed

Own metal lost

Espera

Typical milestones

Played most by

Supporting games