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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 · 36 steps
    1. Mex
    2. TickTick ×2
    3. Wind
    4. TickTick ×3
    5. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    6. Mex
    7. Construction BotCon bot
    8. LazarusLazarus
    9. Mex ×2
    10. LazarusLazarus
    11. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    12. Wind
    13. SentrySentry
    14. RocketeerRocketeer
    15. PawnPawn
    16. SentrySentry
    17. PawnPawn
    18. Wind
    19. PawnPawn ×3
    20. Wind
    21. RocketeerRocketeer
    22. Mex
    23. RocketeerRocketeer
    24. SentrySentry
    25. Energy storage
    26. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    27. Mex
    28. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    29. TickTick
    30. Construction BotCon bot
    31. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    32. SentrySentry
    33. RocketeerRocketeer ×4
    34. SentrySentry
    35. BeamerBeamer
    36. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
  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 · 158 steps
    1. LazarusLazarus
    2. GauntletGauntletnot finished by 15:00
    3. LazarusLazarus
    4. RocketeerRocketeer
    5. LazarusLazarus ×4
    6. RocketeerRocketeer ×5
    7. SentrySentry
    8. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    9. CenturionCenturion
    10. RocketeerRocketeer
    11. TickTick
    12. LazarusLazarus ×2
    13. CenturionCenturion ×4
    14. TickTick
    15. CenturionCenturion ×2
    16. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:56 · typical 9:36
    17. SentrySentry
    18. LazarusLazarus ×2
    19. SentrySentry
    20. LazarusLazarus
    21. CrossbowCrossbow ×3
    22. Converter
    23. LazarusLazarus
    24. TickTick
    25. Converter
    26. CenturionCenturion
    27. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    28. Construction BotCon bot ×3
    29. Con turret
    30. LazarusLazarus ×2
    31. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    32. LazarusLazarus
    33. Con turret
    34. TickTick
    35. LazarusLazarus
    36. TickTick
    37. LazarusLazarus
    38. TickTick
    39. LazarusLazarus
    40. TickTick
    41. LazarusLazarus
    42. TickTick
    43. LazarusLazarus
    44. TickTick
    45. LazarusLazarus
    46. TickTick
    47. LazarusLazarus
    48. TickTick
    49. Con turret
    50. LazarusLazarus
    51. TickTick ×4
    52. Wind ×2
    53. LazarusLazarus
    54. TickTick
    55. LazarusLazarus
    56. TickTick
    57. Wind ×2
    58. TickTick
    59. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    60. Wind
    61. TickTick
    62. Wind ×2
    63. LazarusLazarus
    64. TickTick ×2
    65. Converter
    66. Wind
    67. TickTick
    68. Wind
    69. LazarusLazarus
    70. TickTick
    71. Wind ×2
    72. TickTick
    73. Wind
    74. TickTick
    75. Wind ×2
    76. TickTick
    77. Wind
    78. TickTick
    79. Converter
    80. LazarusLazarus
    81. TickTick
    82. Wind ×2
    83. TickTick
    84. Wind
    85. LazarusLazarus
    86. TickTick
    87. Wind ×2
    88. TickTick
    89. Wind ×3
    90. LazarusLazarus
    91. TickTick
    92. Converter
    93. Wind
    94. TickTick
    95. Wind
    96. LazarusLazarus
    97. TickTick
    98. Wind ×2
    99. TickTick
    100. Wind ×2
    101. TickTick
    102. LazarusLazarus
    103. TickTick
    104. Wind ×2
    105. LazarusLazarus
    106. TickTick
    107. Converter
    108. Construction BotCon bot
    109. Wind ×4
    110. Con turret
    111. Construction BotCon bot
    112. Wind ×3
    113. Converter
    114. Wind ×3
    115. Construction BotCon bot
    116. Wind
    117. Con turret
    118. Wind ×3
    119. Converter
    120. Construction BotCon bot
    121. Con turret
    122. Wind
    123. Fortification WallFortification Wall
    124. Wind
    125. Fortification WallFortification Wall
    126. Wind ×2
    127. Fortification WallFortification Wall
    128. Construction BotCon bot
    129. Wind ×2
    130. Fortification WallFortification Wall
    131. Wind
    132. CenturionCenturion
    133. Fortification WallFortification Wall
    134. Wind
    135. Converter
    136. Fortification WallFortification Wall
    137. CenturionCenturion ×2
    138. Wind ×2
    139. CenturionCenturion
    140. Wind
    141. Pit BullPit Bull
    142. CenturionCenturion
    143. Wind ×2
    144. CenturionCenturion
    145. Wind
    146. CenturionCenturion
    147. Converter
    148. CenturionCenturion
    149. Wind
    150. CenturionCenturion
    151. Wind ×2
    152. CenturionCenturion
    153. Con turret
    154. Wind ×2
    155. Sneaky PeteSneaky Pete
    156. CenturionCenturion
    157. Converter
    158. CenturionCenturion

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Xad's (44 OS, 26/09/2026); 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

44.2 OS · 26/09/2026

Open source match ↗

7 received units · includes a constructor
1252 metal received · 91634 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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