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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 · 46 steps
    1. Mex
    2. LazarusLazarus
    3. Construction BotCon bot
    4. SentrySentry
    5. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    6. Mex ×2
    7. SentrySentry
    8. LazarusLazarus
    9. CenturionCenturion
    10. Mex ×2
    11. TickTick
    12. RocketeerRocketeer
    13. SentrySentry
    14. RocketeerRocketeer
    15. Wind
    16. SentrySentry
    17. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    18. SentrySentry
    19. Wind
    20. RocketeerRocketeer
    21. TickTick
    22. RocketeerRocketeer
    23. SentrySentry
    24. Wind
    25. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    26. Wind
    27. RocketeerRocketeer
    28. TickTick
    29. CenturionCenturion
    30. Con turret
    31. Construction BotCon bot ×3
    32. RocketeerRocketeer
    33. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    34. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    35. Wind
    36. RocketeerRocketeer
    37. Wind
    38. RocketeerRocketeer
    39. Wind
    40. RocketeerRocketeer
    41. Wind
    42. RocketeerRocketeer
    43. Wind
    44. RocketeerRocketeer
    45. Wind
    46. LazarusLazarus
  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 · 117 steps
    1. Wind
    2. LazarusLazarus
    3. Energy storage
    4. Wind ×3
    5. LazarusLazarus
    6. Converter
    7. Wind
    8. LazarusLazarus ×2
    9. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    10. Wind
    11. Converter
    12. RocketeerRocketeer
    13. Wind
    14. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    15. Wind
    16. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    17. Converter
    18. RocketeerRocketeer
    19. Wind
    20. RocketeerRocketeer
    21. Wind
    22. RocketeerRocketeer
    23. SentrySentry
    24. Wind
    25. Converter
    26. RocketeerRocketeer
    27. SentrySentry
    28. Wind
    29. GruntGrunt
    30. RocketeerRocketeer
    31. SentrySentry
    32. GruntGrunt
    33. Wind
    34. Advanced Bot LabAdvanced Bot Labdone 8:53
    35. GruntGrunt
    36. ThugThug ×2
    37. Wind
    38. Converter
    39. Wind ×3
    40. Converter
    41. Wind
    42. Con turret
    43. Wind ×2
    44. Mex
    45. Converter
    46. HoundHound
    47. Wind
    48. Advanced Construction BotT2 con bot
    49. Wind
    50. WelderWelder
    51. Wind
    52. Converter
    53. HoundHound
    54. Wind
    55. WelderWelder
    56. Wind
    57. HoundHound
    58. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 10:37
    59. SentrySentry
    60. Wind
    61. Converter
    62. SentrySentry
    63. Wind
    64. SentrySentry
    65. Wind
    66. SentrySentry
    67. Wind
    68. Converter
    69. WelderWelder
    70. Wind
    71. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    72. HoundHound
    73. Wind ×2
    74. Converter
    75. Wind
    76. WelderWelder
    77. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    78. HoundHound
    79. Wind ×2
    80. Converter
    81. WelderWelder
    82. Wind
    83. Con turret
    84. HoundHound
    85. Wind
    86. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    87. Converter
    88. Wind
    89. WelderWelder
    90. Wind ×2
    91. HoundHound
    92. Wind
    93. WelderWelder
    94. Converter
    95. HoundHound
    96. Wind
    97. PersecutorPersecutordone 13:56
    98. WelderWelder
    99. UmbrellaAnti-nukedone 14:20
    100. Wind ×2
    101. Converter
    102. Wind ×2
    103. Mex
    104. Wind
    105. Converter
    106. Wind ×2
    107. WelderWelder
    108. Wind
    109. HoundHound
    110. Converter
    111. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    112. WelderWelder
    113. Wind
    114. HoundHound
    115. Wind
    116. WelderWelder
    117. Con turret

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Erilium's (48 OS, 20/09/2026); 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

Erilium

48.1 OS · 20/09/2026

Open source match ↗

5 received units · includes a constructor
61 metal received · 55989 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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